Total War has a LOT of counters (3060 total) and their storage once punched out for play presents challenges. We’ve tried out many ways to handle this and recommend using compartmented plastic boxes. Ideally these boxes should be sturdy, have many small compartments (no more than about 1-2″ in all dimensions), have tops that lock in some way to prevent counters from moving from one compartment to another regardless of how the box is oriented and to prevent the box from popping open inadvertently, have rounded bottoms to each compartment so the counters can be taken out easily with just your fingers, and be nested stackable. We’ve found a box that meets all of those requirements and are pleased to be able to offer it for your consideration.
The counter box is just under 14″ (35cm) long, a bit over 8.5″ (22cm) wide, and about 1.3″ (3cm) deep. It has 32 compartments each capable of holding about 100 counters without spending any time neatly stacking the counters. If the counters are sorted by initial setup (one compartment per army) and reinforcements (one compartment each turn), there are enough compartments to easily fit all the sorted counters into 3 such boxes–one box holds all the Axis forces and the other two the Soviet forces. The top of each compartment easily has room to fit about half of a normal 1×3″ stick-on label for easy identification/resorting.
We offer these counter storage boxes as two package deals:
Deal A – 3 counter boxes + a free pair of 6″ (15cm) angled tweezers (ideal for picking up counters or stacks of counters from the map).
Shipped anywhere in USA – $35 (20 for the boxes + 15 shipping)
Shipped to Canada* – $45 (20 for the boxes + 25 shipping)
Shipped to anywhere in Europe – $55 (20 for the boxes + 35 shipping)
Shipped to Australia, New Zealand, anywhere in Asia or Middle East
$60 (20 for the boxes + 40 shipping)
Deal B – 6 counter boxes + two free pairs of 6″ (15cm) angled tweezers.
Shipped anywhere in USA – $55 (35 for the boxes + 20 shipping)
Shipped to Canada* – $65 (35 for the boxes + 30 shipping)
Shipped to anywhere in Europe – $80 (35 for the boxes + 45 shipping)
Shipped to Australia, New Zealand, anywhere in Asia or Middle East
$90 (35 for the boxes + 55 shipping)
*Canadian customers might want to inquire at sentrybox.com as these boxes will also be available there.
All shipment will be via US Priority Mail or Priority Mail International.
Orders for the above may be placed:
By phone:
800-236-7442
303-377-6255 (Gar)
303-344-5301 (Arthur)
By e-mail:
garolmsted@earthlink.net
arthurgoodwin@netscape.com
By PayPal:
Our merchant name for PayPal is “Historical Military Services, Inc (HMS/GRD)” and ourassociated e-mail address there is arthurgoodwin@netscape.com.
By regular mail:
HMS/GRD
540 S Forest St #G
Denver, CO 80246
United States of America
Total War Shipping Update – Shipping date has slipped a bit–mostly due to time required to be spent on arranging distribution/retail details and tracking down current addresses of last of prepub orders (still have about 40 unknowns out of 992 prepub orders), but we should still be shipping by end of November or the first week in December. We appreciate everyone’s patience as the last problems with getting the game out are solved.
Wow these trays look much better than the 500 ziplock baggies I got my armies sorted out in.
There excellent trays for counters with the double grove slip lock on the lid. the depth of the slots are easy access for stubby fingers to pull out counters as well as tweezers compact wise. the bottoms are rounded which stop counters from getting jammed in as well. if you where maximizing storage space you can easily fit 100 counters or more per square 20 – 30 counters in them are close to 1/3 of an inch in height from my experience with them.
Any update on shipping date. Those of us in Australia will need to allow longer shipping times, and we like to know if we can play the new game over our Christmas holidays – summer time and vacation time in the land down under.
Ordered & received two “Deal B” counter box sets, they arrived promptly, and they are just as advertised, great counter storage.
Any shipping updates? The suspense is killing us!!
So where is the game already? Everybody leave town? Whats keeping the game from shipping now that you have all of the components?
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