Unit Differentiation

[guthroth]

Hi. Just getting back into AK47 and picking up the new book at Salute.

How do you tell your units apart ? Do you mark the top of the base ? Any other way apart from beret colours ?

TIA

Pete

[Sean Clark]

You can paint a colour on the rear corner of each base or use slightly different basing style for each unit. Another more temporary method is to use little  coloured stickers.  I personally paint the rear edge of the bases different colours.

[Leslie BT]

I tend to use a different palette of colours for each unit, or as Sean says paint the back edge of the base a different colour for each unit.

[martin goddard]

Units often have different uniforms of they are of different quality types. This stops professionals getting mixed with militia. In addition it is not often two units need to be a the same place. Possibly if it is vehicle supporting foot. The table is a bit too big (6 feet) for the units to bunch up.

[Hman]

Units often have different uniforms of they are of different quality types. This stops professionals getting mixed with militia. In addition it is not often two units need to be a the same place. Possibly if it is vehicle supporting foot. The table is a bit too big (6 feet) for the units to bunch up.

I tend to do the same, the more poorly dressed/equipped tends to indicate it quality.  That said for a club game, I spend 'hours' making very small tags to indicate the units...

[martin goddard]

The clear differentiation would be naked unit with body paint.

[Andoreth]

My professionals, regulars and militia are generally distinguishable by variations in uniform (hats, boots etc). In general I have found that similarly clad units do not overlap but if they are very close we tend to turn the end base of one unit to face sideways to show where that unit ends and another begins.