Organizing the tiles

[felkor 74]

Anyone have any suggestions on how to organize the tiles?

I've now played the tutorial and a skirmish.  The tutorial went together quickly, but it took a long time to sort out the right pieces for the skirmish map.  I was wondering what people are doing to speed up set up time.

 

Right now I have my tiles in plastic bags separated out this way:
Large jungle/desert pieces

Small jungle/desert pieces

Large Imperial pieces

Small imperial pieces

Transition pieces (pieces with 2 types of terrain on them.)

And this is certainly helpful, but I was wondering if anyone had any other suggestions that reduce setup time.

[Forensicus 883]

Hi there. I've made this box-layers with plast-foam or foam-core cardboard:

 

This top layer contains the minifigs and then the medium tiles (4-9) and 26 to ??

Next to them I have arranged the small squares and half squares (like 34 and 39) in a row. And to the left there's room for the slightly larger tiles (like #10)

 

 

Everything is in numerical order in the respective slots.

 

Merry X-Mas

 

In the bottom layer I have the large tiles (01 etc) and a small bag with the longer ones (20/21)

 

[Imperial Advisor Arem Heshvaun 9,479]

_{Forensicus if ever you come to New York I will buy all your drinks if you can help me organize even 1/4 of my collection.}

[Forensicus 883]

_{Forensicus if ever you come to New York I will buy all your drinks if you can help me organize even 1/4 of my collection.}

Deal!!

[The Black Man 215]

 

One storage solution a friend at my store suggested. Get some Ziploc freezer bags with label spaces, number them 1-10, 11-20, 21-30, 31-40 and place the associated tile numbers in them. It will make finding the correct tiles much easier when assembling big maps. I found that even the biggest tiles can fit (just barely) in the quart sized ziploc freezer bags. This has worked great for me anyone else have a good solution to this?

 

 

KennedyHawk mentioned a simple yet handy way to keep the tiles easier to find here.

 

Also, Forensicus started a post here asking for those of us that want inserts from Game Trayz to show some support in wanting something for our Imperial Assault game.

 

The Game Trayz site also gives you an idea of how they implement the trays for other boxed games.

 

Cheers

 

 

 

[Darkjawa 68]

I'm using plastic baggies for mine and separated them by number. So 1 bag is 1-10 the next will be 11-20 and so on.

[felkor 74]

Thanks for the tips guys,

I think I'll try sorting them by number (instead of by size/theme) and see if that makes set-up time quicker.