Threat is a major force in The Walking Dead: All Out War and tracking it is important. Mantic gave us a threat dial and a spinner but spinners make for a weak way to track such an important aspect of the game, mainly because they are so good at, well, spinning. Let’s see if we can’t change that up a bit.
I first wanted to just add friction to the spinner so that it would work more like a static dial but those experiments didn’t turn out too well. My next solution was use magnets as they would remove the low friction spinning component and be removable for easy storage. The big arrow of the original spinner could work but then I hit upon the idea of using something more iconic.
How about Negan’s iconic Lucille? A quick search on Shapeways revealed that someone had already made a replica mini Lucille and it happened to be the perfect size.
A quick priming and painting and Lucille was ready for assembly.
I cut a small 3mm notch into the center so that the magnet could rest in and then quick-painted the excess damage I did.
For the base, I used the original spinner base, filled it with greenstuff and superglued the main magnet in. Then superglued the whole base to the threat tracker template.
All it took was letting the glue dry and then we had a pimped out Walking Dead: All Out War custom Lucille threat tracker.
It stays put, is easy to use without knocking the result everywhere, and is removable for quick storage.
Sean
Clever idea and adds a nice piece of flair to the game.
Christian
Thanks Sean! It is actually quite easy to make once you get the shapeways piece. I think I saw someone on facebook do something similar with the magnets and the spinner arrow.
Zidders Roofurry
I just wanted to say your site is awesome and thank you for pimping Thunder Road. While I don’t know if I’ll ever get a chance to play it with someone (I didn’t even get to play it back when I first got it as a present the year it came out-I still have my original game, too) I appreciate knowing other’s out there think it’s cool. I might even customize mine as a diorama just for the heck of it. Thanks again !
Christian
Thanks! Sadly, these games don’t hit the table as often as I wish either. The diorama idea is pretty awesome though!