Making up the Optio underbase and other player aids.

Optio organises figure bases into units of 1 - 8 bases per battlefield square. One base has an underbase, which indicates its morale calibre (more morale intervals = better unit), its current morale (shown by the marker), which command it belongs to (shown by the colour of the marker), how many missile hits it has received (shown by rotating the marker to reveal different coloured triangle pointers) and the commander if one is with the unit (the counter on the right which indicates which command the commander belongs to - colour of banner - and his command ability, fighting ability and loss effect). The commander can be wounded (shown by flipping the counter over to show a red background in place of green). The point is to put all the bookkeeping on the battlefield where a player can see at a glance how his units are doing.

The morale marker is made of 4 layers of chipboard with the printed adhesive/paper wrapped around it. The commander/general is just printed paper/adhesive stuck on chipboard. His banner colour corresponds to his command's colour and the players write his command ability, combat ability and rout number in the rounded boxes. The morale scale itself is a loose strip of cardboard with the printed paper/adhesive stuck on. It is inserted in place on the underbase. The underbase itself is made of chipboard. Here are some photos.

All the artwork for these player aids will be made freely available as downloadable pdfs.