The board and army cards were fairly straightforward, requiring only slight trimming and basic folding in half. The soldiers, on the other hand, had to be designed for easy use, as they will be picked up and moved around quite a lot, and needed to be easy to pick up out of a grouping. Flat pieces would easily flip, scatter, be picked up by breezes, and generally make playing the game a huge pain to play, even if it was easier to cut out.
My solution was to create elongated 'triangular' pieces, that you would fold over and then tape the two tabs at the bottom together to create a simple base with an easily picked up 'point' that would be finger-friendly in tight groupings. The only problem with this is that, unfortunately, it is very time consuming to individually trim, fold, and tape 90 pieces. Since it was a weekend I decided I would just get to work, starting with trimming and folding all the pieces.
This took roughly an hour and a half. Trimming wouldn't have even been necessary under ordinary circumstances, but the cutting board I used would not cut in a straight line, so I instead had to cut each piece by hand.
The end result, however, more than made up for the misery of the preparation process. The board came out a tad smaller than I had intended, but this will be a fairly quick thing to fix as the board is not in its final stages (the game still needs testing!). I look forward to testing tomorrow, to see how well my initial planning works out.
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