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Box Inserts
The best that I have seen is Room 25 Ultimate. The plastic tray insert has the perfect place for every component, and groups all related tokens and minis together per player. So if you are playing the blue character, the blue tokens are easily stored right next to the blue miniature. The only downside is that the box is much bigger than necessary, even taking into account the big insert. Most of the Gale Force Nine games have inserts that are just right, aside from storing various card types in the same stack.
Most of the older games in my collection have no inserts, so I had to get a bunch of baggies to sort out all the separate types of tokens. Battle for Rokugan is a recent acquisition with a disappointing insert. Everything fits perfectly when you first open the box. But there are seven factions, with two types of tokens that don't belong together, so you need to add 14 baggies. And while the box was fine when all the tokens were still on sheets, once punched and baggied, they become too bulky for the box. I haven't played Space Hulk in a long time, but that was another game that never fit nicely in the box again. The minis just become too bulky once assembled.
With expansions, I try to get everything to fit in the base game box if possible, but will often be forced to use at least one expansion box for the overflow. I will reluctantly take out an insert if that helps fit more in the box, but I keep all those inserts in case I should ever try to sell a game. I try to avoid plano boxes, but Arkham Horror really needed one to corral the various tokens.
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Not many games come with them anymore though. :/
I seem to recall a ravensburger worker placement game called Arkadia had a great insert. But come to think of it, ravensburger puts a lot of thought into their products, so that's to be expected from their productions.
From my own.collection, I'd have to say Claustrophobia has the best insert. I don't worry about the expansions for it because I sold them as the game is better without them.
Lords of waterdeep is the same way. Great insert. Though sadly if you sleeve cards it turns into unusable garbage.
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When i got a little older, I used to hide my stash of condoms under the box insert. I of course forgot about it and then years later my sister found it.
As much as I hated Dominion, i thought the box insert was pretty clever and useful.
Buck Rogers had really fun styrofoam inserts for all the various factions to put their troops and it was always a joy to open the box and see it all laid out.
hey look everybody, i'm making a board game post
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Black Barney wrote: hey look everybody, i'm making a board game post
Yet still, somehow found a way to mention condoms.
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I agree with Southernman that the MB gamemaster games had great inserts, back in the day. Otherwise, I usually just dispense with all of them, since I'll almost inevitably pick up an expansion, as with FotEG, and they'll become useless.
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But I do like the ultra custom inserts a couple of games have. Like the ones in Mechs vs. Minions, Wasteland Delivery Service, and Grimm Forest.
I remember back when I got the original German Elfenland...it blew me away that it had a custom insert with a space for each elf boot.
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For all the bitching about dumb shit like not enough room for sleeved cards (spit) and no solo play (spit) the people do on BGG, you’d think they’d be kicking up a veritable shitstorm over how inexcusably bad FFG’s inserts are.
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Also GMT counter trays.
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