Today, another RAACO shipment with a 4th Handybox and some other stuff arrived.
This allowed me to finalize my 'retired' ASL stuff and finally do away with storage things for the time being.
One thing that might be of interest to the community:
During a game, it is nice to have the most used counters of a given nationality (mostly squads, HS, and Concealement) close at hand along with the system counters. RAACO seemed not the optimum to this end, so I put some thought in it to find a solution:
For the system counters (Prep Fire, First Fire, etc.) a good idea might be to have a spare Assorter with the lid removed. It will allow you to house all that you need systemwise with ease. And by removing the lid, you eliminate the danger of someone accidentally tearing the Assorter down passing your table with the lid standing open. To shift 8 inserts from the normal storage Assorter of your system counters to the lidless 'in-play' one takes less than a minute.
Furthermore, each side usually needs some counters of the given nationality close at hand. Mostly, this will be squads and HS that might need adjustment during the game due to ELR etc and maybe a couple of vehicles or HIP stuff. Theoretically, you could take the few A75 & A78 inserts from your Assorter and place them next to the playing area. But having two to four of them 'loose' on the table might not appeal to the more OCD among us.
Well, there is a solution:
The above image displays the following RAACO article:
http://raaco.com/Produktdetails-1150.aspx?ProductID=136471&VariantID=&GroupID=55 i bakke
Of interest to us are not the four inserts shown (having the height of two A75 or A78 stacked atop each other). The nifty part is the small tray
beneath them which is apparently not available separately. It allows you to set four inserts of the A75 or A78 size into it, so that they won't shift around individually.
So buy two of these, discard the unneeded larger inserts, then you have a tray for each opponent in which he can fit, say one A75 with squads, one A75 with HS of his side, maybe an empty A71 and a fourth insert that he might need (or not).
This way, for both players you will have all system counters and needed nationality counters taking up the space of roughly two Assorters pretty safely next to the playing area not using much space and you don't need to meddle with other Assorters during the game.
von Marwitz