@cb4:
Super cool! Besides a bump messing up a game, are the magnets strong enough to stick if the board goes vertical?
Yes they are in fact… I bet with increased chip stacks though they might fall. One of the reasons I modified the chips to the following. With the added new green chip (3) and blue chip (10) I can now represent any unit from 1-20 using between 0-4 chips. Since Global 1940 is very spread out its difficult to determine the quantity of an army from a distance. The various colors, gray(1), green(3), red(5) and blue(10) will now help resolve that problem by reducing the stack size.
1 No chip
2 Gray
3 2x Gray
4 Green
5 Gray + Green
6 Red
7 Gray + Red
8 2x Gray + Red
9 Green + Red
10 Gray + Green + Red
11 Blue
12 Gray + Blue
13 2x Gray + Blue
14 Green + Blue
15 Gray + Green + Blue
16 Red + Blue
17 Gray + Red + Blue
18 2x Gray + Red + Blue
19 Green + Red + Blue
20 Gray + Green + Red + Blue
21 2x Blue
As you can see the max stack size for units up to 20 is 4 which is much easier to count from a distance and should stick the board no problem. The chips hold together very nicely. I will post a pic when I get all the chips done.