So, dogs.

Love ‘em to death.

They sometimes chew things. Sometimes a shoe (never the pair, just one of each), maybe the odd furniture corner, occasionally a John Sexton Book (not a favourite, but it turns out it would cost $300+ to replace!).

Today Lucy, who in her defence has been given the odd X Wing and Armada counter surround to chew, was gifted two open doors to the mother load and decided to chew 7 (!) Armada ship tokens, which oddly named as they are, are the cardboard base panels for the ships (kinda mandatory for accurate play and you only get one!).

Butchers bill;

• Both ISD tokens pretty much munted, with warping, chunks missing and puncture marks all over.

• Onager, same but not as bad (stripped corner) I may cut it off or colour it in with black pen.

• Both Gozanti’s, my only Raider and my Munificent, were slightly damaged, but mostly whole.

• 1 stand, usable, but not pretty (plenty of these, although a medium, so less common).

Things were said.

Chance to count my blessings?

You bet.

The (currently) irreplaceable and far too expensive at the time Raider model and super fragile Munificent were both on the floor undamaged and at least another half dozen ships were within reach, but it was apparently only the cardboard she wanted.

Ok, so on the net I go. Not only is it nearly impossible to find any tokens, sans ship that is, but even getting an accurate, ship-less image I can print out seems impossible. Photoshop? Likely, but to be honest pushing my skill set.

Ring at the door.

Chimaera expansion arrives.

Enthusiasm a little reduced considering, but oh well, new toy.

I open the box, consoling myself that there is at least one presentable ISD base panel in my collection and one I can likely copy and PS.

Punching out the cardboard I spy another sheet with another base panel! This is the only time I have ever received 2 in a box. I assumed FFG decided you may want to upgrade more than one of your ISD’s to refits? I go tell my wife the good news and of course she arranged a parade, cancels disaster relief, arranges a press release etc :). Well, maybe not, but she was happy the mini disaster was partially averted.

I returned to my unpacking and lo-and-behold, there was a third! Go FFG. I now have all three ISD’s properly based even if I have to ignore some of the printed info. Just means I have to use the ship cards, not the bases, for basic ship info except for the much needed fire arcs, that are thankfully the same for all the ISD’s.

Not a big adjustment process and I guess FFG could even have designed them like that in another universe, so all good.

The rest of the bases are being pressed flat under some books, then maybe a slight trim if needed, but are otherwise not too bad. I paint my bases black, so if I trim the munted ones, then use a black marker to finish them off, they may look like I meant it.

From initial fears of an expensive and inconvenient (hobby based = minor) disaster, almost all was salvaged.

Weird how things work out, and they usually do.