ZenBattleLust
01-24-2010, 09:27 AM
I've been having a devil of a time laying down smoke templates now that their centers are at most 1" away from the model tossing smoke. I have a really hard time measuring to the center of the template, making sure I have a bird's eye view over the ruler, etc. I can either spend a ridiculous amount of time per smoke bomb getting it right, or I can resort to guesswork. It's also a real pain to slide the template under the model tossing the smoke when you toss it, and slide it out from under the template when the smoke expires. The models always get moved a little. It may only affect the outcome only one game in five hundred, but it sure has been bugging me, regardless.
So, I decided to use photoshop to make 3" smoke templates with the outline of a 30mm base cut out exactly 1" from the center of the template. No more measuring or sliding a smoke template under a base. Just place the smoke template around a small base and you are guaranteed* to have place the smoke the maximum legal distance from your smoke tossing model. And because I am such a nice guy, I even decided to put a PDF of the template online for all to download.
It is available here (http://www.nd.edu/~rjara1/warmachine/SmokeTemplates.pdf).
Just print it out on a 8.5" x 11" sheet of paper, cut out, and you will have 6 Mk II smoke templates ready to go. One of the templates even has helpful reminder text.
Please let me know if you have any trouble downloading them, notice a rule error, find a typo, have a suggestion (no promises that I will ever have the time to implement it), etc.
FAQs
Why only one template with reminder text? It's the same rules for all the templates. You only need one, and I find too much text on the table distracting.
Want to place the smoke closer to your model? Just slide it under your base a little. A 30 mm base will more than cover up the part of the template that's missing.
Want to place the smoke centered over your model, or something silly like that? Use one of your old, completely circular, templates. Jeez.
*The distance of the cut off area from the center of the templates is actually off by .038 pixels or one two-thousanths (~0.0005) of an inch. I challenge you to care.
So, I decided to use photoshop to make 3" smoke templates with the outline of a 30mm base cut out exactly 1" from the center of the template. No more measuring or sliding a smoke template under a base. Just place the smoke template around a small base and you are guaranteed* to have place the smoke the maximum legal distance from your smoke tossing model. And because I am such a nice guy, I even decided to put a PDF of the template online for all to download.
It is available here (http://www.nd.edu/~rjara1/warmachine/SmokeTemplates.pdf).
Just print it out on a 8.5" x 11" sheet of paper, cut out, and you will have 6 Mk II smoke templates ready to go. One of the templates even has helpful reminder text.
Please let me know if you have any trouble downloading them, notice a rule error, find a typo, have a suggestion (no promises that I will ever have the time to implement it), etc.
FAQs
Why only one template with reminder text? It's the same rules for all the templates. You only need one, and I find too much text on the table distracting.
Want to place the smoke closer to your model? Just slide it under your base a little. A 30 mm base will more than cover up the part of the template that's missing.
Want to place the smoke centered over your model, or something silly like that? Use one of your old, completely circular, templates. Jeez.
*The distance of the cut off area from the center of the templates is actually off by .038 pixels or one two-thousanths (~0.0005) of an inch. I challenge you to care.