Measuring tape/sticks

[acctingman]

I see a lot of people using tape measures for their gaming. Is there a bendable measuring stick out there on the market or has anyone made their own?

Thanks

[GrumpyOldMan]

Hello am

I've used inkjet OHT sheets to make flexible, transparent measuring tapes as well as blast templates etc. You just have to be able to make sure that you get the sizing right.

Cheers

GrumpyOldMan

[Ithoriel]

I just use things like this:



Flexible, convenient, easy to obtain and cheap, they work with any rule system where measuring is required!

People who insist on using these stupid measuring sticks designed for a particular game drive me crazy ... drive me even crazier than I already am.

[lentulus]

I see a lot of people using tape measures for their gaming. Is there a bendable measuring stick out there on the market or has anyone made their own?

Thanks

If you only need a foot, flexible plastic rules are common school supplies (at least here).

[d_Guy]

People who insist on using these stupid measuring sticks designed for a particular game drive me crazy ... drive me even crazier than I already am.

I actually really like making measuring sticks and do so with great abandon (even have a lifetime supply of dowel rods just for this purpose).
Of course I have so many now that I don't know which goes with which rules and have to get out my trusty tape measure to figure it out BUT I really like making them sticks. 

[Subedai]

I just use things like this:



Flexible, convenient, easy to obtain and cheap, they work with any rule system where measuring is required!

People who insist on using these stupid measuring sticks designed for a particular game drive me crazy ... drive me even crazier than I already am.

And me, all the way. Never used those new-fangled measuring stick thingamajigs.

MickS

[fsn]

And me, all the way. Never used those new-fangled measuring stick thingamajigs.

MickS

I'm with you on that one. I have some small 1m tapes which I got years ago (in fact they may be 39" tapes") which are very light and handy.

[Leman]

You could always go with the likes of Square Bashing and To the Strongest, which don't use measuring at all, or alternatively Kallistra's hex-based games.

[d_Guy]

Leman's right, squares/hexes are a good way to go also. But I like sticks. The are light and fairly unhandy, and you can poke an eye out with them BUT you don't need magnifying lens to read them and they are superb for batting things across the table 

[Leman]

I do find the brass/steel 1" segment measuring stick my brother gave me as a present is particularly useful when I put it together in alternating 3" segments for BBB.

[Fenton]

You could always go with the likes of Square Bashing and To the Strongest, which don't use measuring at all, or alternatively Kallistra's hex-based games.

Or Crossfire

[Ithoriel]

Hexes just don't do it for me for land games. Seeing the Old Guard stagger drunkenly up to La Haye Sainte following a line of hexes just doesn't seem right.

Air and naval games with hexes on the other hand don't bother me.

Mr. Consistent, me!

Also, 3" .... who uses inches these days?

[Leman]

MM......BBB, that's who. Especially since links with the continent were severed - much to Ian's undoubted pleasure.

[Ithoriel]

Ah well, since we haven't actually severed ties with the continent, and hopefully never will, I'll stick with proper measurements.

[Leman]

So you're going inches then?