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Carc Central Community => General => Topic started by: loki on September 09, 2015, 06:43:32 AM

Title: game counter tray
Post by: loki on September 09, 2015, 06:43:32 AM
While Carcassonne does not use a lot of tokens, I find that with the trade goods tokens , ferries and gold bars that handling the smaller items can be a clumsy job.

My fingers find it difficult trying to get the smaller items out of straight sided  containers.

I am considering buying some form of game counter tray and just wondered what anyone else was using.
Title: Re: game counter tray
Post by: Paul on September 09, 2015, 07:07:01 AM
Something like this comes to mind from the game Kalah:

(https://boardgamegeek.com/camo/9317b5185c5465c57ff3adb5c43886b88bf5e29f/687474703a2f2f6934302e74696e797069632e636f6d2f31686133766d2e6a7067)
Title: Re: game counter tray
Post by: B1nder on September 09, 2015, 10:47:17 AM
We always use these 9 cm wide and 4 cm high wooden trays when we play games of Carcassonne. And I usually keep all my meeples and loose parts in them.
Title: Re: game counter tray
Post by: loki on September 11, 2015, 04:42:42 PM
Thanks for the responses, I will probably try and get a Chessex or UGG Counter tray though I would prefer a more sturdy material.  The Chessex tray has flat sloping sides to make it easier to slide tokens out - we will see how that works out.   :-\

http://www.amazon.com/CHESSEX-Counter-Tray-compartment-2-piece/dp/B00DUPMIUW

My own expansions do rely rather heavily on tokens to facilitate end game scoring.   :'(
Title: Re: game counter tray
Post by: Decar on September 25, 2015, 04:28:55 AM
You might want to send Basically Wooden a description of what you're after.  They've been awesome discussing the Tile boxes and already have some counter top-trays, maybe something similar could be designed to replace it.
Title: Re: game counter tray
Post by: Paul on September 25, 2015, 05:40:55 AM
Disregard this option. Just got confirmation that minimum quantity order is 1000 pieces.  :-\

What about this one. They customize the tray for you. Albeit they seem to focus on plastic inlay for the boxes, I think it's worthy a look.

Update: You could maybe make smaller boxes with inlay for each colour and then have these boxes fit into a larger box, so each player takes one and is ready to play.

http://www.alibaba.com/product-detail/customized-board-game-with-plastic-PS_1523520558.html (http://www.alibaba.com/product-detail/customized-board-game-with-plastic-PS_1523520558.html)

An example taken from their site: (http://i01.i.aliimg.com/img/pb/560/009/872/872009560_046.jpg)