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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Elder-Basilisk" data-source="post: 1094001" data-attributes="member: 3146">Actually, I've found that the GW plastic regiment box sets are some of the least expensive miniatures around. Per miniature that is. (They work out to between $1 and $1.50 per mini depending on which set where you order them from). The only difficulty with them is that you get 18-20 miniatures of the same kind. Not too much of a problem with orcs, zombies, skeletons, and zombies. However, if you wanted dwarf miniatures, you might not need that many for PCs. And if you wanted to spend $20 and just have a bunch of generic figures for "bad guys" you're out of luck. But they're great if you like miniatures.Being a fan of buying, assembling, painting, and using miniatures, I was suspicious about counters, however, I won a copy of Sword and Sorcery's Counter Collection I: The Usual Suspects and have gotten a lot of use out of it. It's great for when you don't have quite the right miniature for the job or for DMing at a con where you don't want to drive 14 hours with three cases of miniatures or risk having them stolen while you're using the toilet. And even when most everything is represented by miniatures, I found the horse and cart counters to be very helpful because you could put a character mini on top of a horse counter to represent the mounted character. Most people don't have mounted and unmounted minis for their character.Another option for representation is dice minions. Buy a bunch of d12s and some plastic miniatures bases. (In the various sizes you'll want to use commonly). Then glue the d12s to the bases with the numbers 1-12 facing up. That makes it easy to keep track of which orc is orc #1. The bases also keep them from being confused with the dice that somehow always manage to end up in the middle of the battlemat or from being knocked over (at which point you end up asking "was that #1 or #3?). Having several sets of dice minions in different colors makes it easier to represent different kinds of villains. (The red ones are the orcs, and the green ones are the gnolls).</blockquote>

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