With my magnetic set we use colored chips to reduce the stack size. From my previous post last summer…
With the added new green chip (3) and blue chip (10) I can now represent any unit from 1-20 using between 0-4 chips. Since Global 1940 is very spread out its difficult to determine the quantity of an army from a distance. The various colors, gray(1), green(3), red(5) and blue(10) will now help resolve that problem by reducing the stack size.
1 No chip
2 Gray
3 2x Gray
4 Green
5 Gray + Green
6 Red
7 Gray + Red
8 2x Gray + Red
9 Green + Red
10 Gray + Green + Red
11 Blue
12 Gray + Blue
13 2x Gray + Blue
14 Green + Blue
15 Gray + Green + Blue
16 Red + Blue
17 Gray + Red + Blue
18 2x Gray + Red + Blue
19 Green + Red + Blue
20 Gray + Green + Red + Blue
21 2x Blue
As you can see the max stack size for units up to 20 is 4 which is much easier to count from a distance.
Here is a pic of my magnetic chips.
Units
Grey(1), Green(3), Red(5), Blue(10).
Factory Damage
Black(1) and Orange(5)
Fuel Markers
Purple (numbered 1-7) These are my new chips to mark the spaces left that a plane can fly after combat. With so many planes in global 1940 we found it useful.