Managing physical packing & unpacking of the boxes

[mrweasely]

I'm curious how people pack their WotR stuff, especially now that there is Third Age to complicate things.

Pre-expansion, and after I spray-painted the armies, packing was simple: good guys in one half of the insert, bad guys in the other, dice 'n' opression-counters in the middle section, never-used components (e.g. damage tokens, quick start rules, Character Chits and Nation Chits) stored belowdecks under the insert. This made the most frequent operation (set up and take down) a snap.

Now the expansion has come out, there are two different types of Uruk Hai and Rohrim, and suddenly a million different types of counters. Picking out the right counter subset for a given game can take quite some time when everything is just thrown in willy nilly. I'm trying to optimize that.

Various schemes promise fast setup, but at the cost of laborious break-down.

Does anyone have brilliant ideas?

[Krieghund]

The only thing I've done is separate the counters into separate bags. In the base game, I put the Political Track and Character markers into a small ziploc bag (the kind jewelry sometimes comes in*) and the Army chips, control markers and Hunt tiles in a large (sandwich) ziploc.

For the Expansion, I put each Nation's Reinforcement Tokens in a separate small ziploc, and all the rest of the counters in a large one. I also put the figures from the base game I need for the Expansion in separate large bags inside the bins, but this is only worth it if you play multiple Operational games in a row without Strategic games in between.


* My wife had several of these saved for no particular reason.

[mrweasely]

I guess I optimize for Twilight, because I put all the parts for that in the big box. Ironic, since my set has only played twilight twice.

Parts & cards specific to the op games go in the small box. In there, like KH, I bag each of the 6 types of recruitment tokens. I also have a "FP op stuff" bag, with character chits, action tokens, etc. and a "SP op stuff" bag with darknes and leadership tokens, etc. Needless to say, nobody but me has offered to repack into this byzantine scheme of mine, but it does reduce setup time.

Also in the small box go the extra Rohrrim and extra Uruk Hai, as well as the op-specific models.

[Veldrin]

I have two copies of everything so I have the main box with the main game plus Twilight and the expansion box with all the units from the main game that are needed and everything from the expansion needed so if I want o play Gondor or Rohan all is set.

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[mrweasely]

I had a feeling you were going to say that...

[Veldrin]

Hehe, writng articles for FFG have its priviliges.

[glow=green,2,300]Veldrin[/glow]