Twenty or so years ago, when Clan War was a going concern in the Lexington gaming community, I bought a bunch of 1″ square adhesive-backed magnets and some thin steel sheets to use for unit movement trays. They worked well enough for the purpose: keeping a bunch of little samurai in line while marching across the table.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Fast-forward to today, and the magnetic base thing has come ’round again. Apparently, while I wasn’t doing any wargaming, the wargamers adopted steel storage trays and rare earth magnets as a means of transporting figures. It’s a sidegrade (if not an upgrade) from foam, or maybe it’s just clever marketing, but I was intrigued. The guy who runs BLKOUT demos in this corner of Appalachia made me aware of Tabletop Stronghold<\/a>. I’m strangely okay with supporting some dude’s localish (based out of West Virginia) garage entrepreneurship, so I picked up his smaller magnetic case. I haven’t used it for travel yet, but assembly was a breeze (and glue-free) and everything seems to work as advertised.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Not wanting it to be confused with other Tabletop Stronghold cases at the local stores, I decided to experiment. I’ve always found the Swedish M90 splinter camouflage pattern<\/a> to be aesthetically pleasing, so I broke out the painter’s tape and rattlecans and commenced to defiling.<\/p>\n\n\n\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/libellus.de-fenestra.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/IMG_1919-1024x768.jpg\")
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