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Speak of the Devil, Wargame counters

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So I thought that maybe using counters for wargames when minis weren't available might sound silly, apparently there are others that like the idea to.  As I was searching through Kickstarter, I found this project going on.  Modern Army counters.  https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1310140601/modern-wwii-civil-and-revolutionary-war-military-a?ref=nav_search
I don't think this project will get funded, but I will keep an eye out on this company.  They were only showing the modern counters.  I would have loved to have seen the WWII counters.  I think I will reach out to them and see if they have plans on WWII counters.  I think these would be lovely and could cover a lot of genres like ACW, Revolutionary, Napoleonic and such.

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