The Last Hundred Yards (Volume 3) – The Solomon Islands – Storage Solution With Rails on Boards

Having already used the excellent Cube4Me plastic storage trays for the first two volumes of The Last One Hundred Yards (from GMT Games), it was a no-brainer that when I finally had some extra trays, I would create a set for the third volume, The Solomon Islands.

As I said in the posts about the other two volumes, this is a game system that almost calls out for storage.

The game faces players off in intense battles in the Pacific islands between Japanese forces and US Marines.

Each side’s pieces are divided into companies and if you put all of the Japanese or American infantry into one bag, you would be doing a lot of sorting during setup.

If you don’t, then you’d have lots of baggies!

As with the other two, Cube4Me comes to the rescue.

All you need for the set is two of the 20-compartment, 15mm deep trays and one of the lids.

The bottom has the Japanese forces (they’re not quite as numerous so you can spread them out a bit).

With the trays nesting, you can’t put as many counters in the bottom tray. Thus, the companies are actually combined a little bit.

The rest of the bottom tray has the Japanese vehicles, guns, and Machine Gun units, as well as some of the less plentiful neutral markers (Assault, Mine, Smoke, etc).

The top tray has the Americans.

Since it has the lid, you can fit more into each tray.

This means each company gets its own tray slot, along with the vehicles, bazookas, MGs, and guns.

The top tray also has the firepower modifier markers, because there are a lot (though it doesn’t seem to be as many as the second volume).

There are three trays for the yellow ones (anti-tank) and two trays each for the green (small arms) and red (mortar) ones.

(It’s interesting that there are so many more yellow ones, considering vehicles aren’t as prominent in the Pacific. Oh well).

Anyway, it all fits in the box really well.

There could even be room for another thin tray, if it were necessary (it’s not).

I really like these Cube4Me trays for many wargames.

They’ll be even better when they are able to get some tarot-card sized trays too!

If you’re a fan of this system, getting the trays for whichever volumes you have is a no-brainer.

So easy to pull out and get to the table.

It would be for me!

If I had an opponent for the game.

But the setup of the game is not what’s holding me back.