Saturday, 7 February 2026

Blood and Steel tokens for the NZ Wars

Tabletop tokens for my New Zealand Wars project.

I wanted illustrated wargames tokens to give me the flavour of the New Zealand Wars.  Still having the title written clearly, wargames style.

These are simple printable squares, but I'm after a couple specific to the period in addition to the Blood and Steel ones.  The aim is an A4 printable sheet with 12 of each.

They can be printed and mounted both sides of the token meaning for space saving. 

I've gone with:

WET POWDER

RUN TO GROUND

ACTIVATED

SHAKEN

RELOAD

TAKE COVER

SENTRY

I started here.  Bear with...

And added these... still not there.

Went arty with these.  And this is a lot closer.

Getting closer.  But I realised that I needed to add  the "Sentry" token, and to standardise my shaken and activated tokens.

I left a few without titles, in case I get any more idea's, or for Scenario specific markers.
I also went tall Sentry and shorter one.

And next the Maori version:
On one side in Maori, the flipside in English.



The side in English will look like this:


I'm considering creating the blank Maoti tokens as:

AMBUSH
HIDDEN PATH
CALL THE WHĀNAU (the extended family or tribal links, basically reinforcements)

I'll expand on some of my rules changes, house rules for the New Zealand wars in another post, but suffice to say I really like Blood and Steel, and it's the flavour of the conflict I want to explore, not unbalanced the rules.


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