My brain wires are often sparking on the obsessive side when it comes to games. I get hung up on how a game looks on the table and as I was playing a solo game of The Silver Bayonet, I was using those glass beads that you can get as fatigue tokens for the game. But, wasn’t happy with them. They were fine but, just, in my mind at least, didn’t fit. Another alternative I considered was using tokens from Kill Team Or Necromunda, both of which I have just sat there in a box, but neither of those would look quite right either. I wanted something different.

So I did a search looking for iconography to represent fatigue and looked at the images that were thrown up and started sketching. My idea was to have an image depicting a fatigued infantryman, wearily trudging along on a march.

I am not a brilliant artist. But, I occasionally draw stuff that I am not too embarrassed of and I thought that as I was going to go for a silhouette sort of thing, I should be able to achieve something useable.

Starting with a very basic sketch I got down on paper the general idea of what the fatigued soldier would look like.

Expanding on the initial sketch I added more details to depict a footsore infantry man bowed by his pack and barely putting one foot in front of the other.

I then added some ink to get crisper lines.

This is one was just trying out some ideas, refining them.

This is the image scanned, tidied up on the computer and with colour added. I chose grey for the uniform to be fairly neutral.

I then added a border and a background colour.

After copying the image I added numbers so that the token represents 1 or 2 fatigue tokens on opposite sides. Not entirely sure why the images are blurry.

And here are the tokens (stuck on some 1400 micron mount board, untidily cut out ( it’s a design feature, honest!) and sealed with a coat of satin varnish. All right they won’t win any design awards but I am fairly happy with the result and they are more interesting than the little glass beads I was using.

Dice and tokens for The Silver Bayonet skirmish wargame

If you like them please feel free to download the PDFs below.

15mm Fatigue Tokens 1s

15mm Fatigue Tokens 2s

Update 14/03/25

Found a little 16mm hole punch on Ebay that is perfect to cut out neat and tidy little discs so no more ham-fisted cutting out of cardboard!

If you like the tokens and plan to use them, let me know in the comments