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Panzer Flats

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I was thinking about picking up the Panzer Flat paper tank print outs.  After thinking about using counters with miniature rules, I found these on the Wargame vault.  They are for use with the miniatures version of Panzer by Jim Day.  However, since they don't have any printed game information on them, they could be printed out and used in place of miniatures.  Which is what they were designed for anyway.

The scale on them is in the micro armor size I believe and I'd want to figure out how to size them up for maybe 15mm usage.  For about $10, you can get one army of units in a PDF format.  That is virtually an unlimited number of units to print and use.  Of course, your limited to the colorings that come with the product, so it may limit their usage just on looks alone.

I have slowly grown my collection of models and have a small force of Germans and Russians in both 15mm and 20mm, however, that is a lot of money to run two armies in two scales just to play around the house with my son.  I'm thinking until we have a dedicated gaming space, paper may be the way to go.

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