Halls of Hegra – Storage Solution With Rails on Boards

I’m back to trying to make my games a bit easier to unpack and pack up again, after a short hiatus.

The trays from Cube4Me really make that so much easier!

Today’s storage solution is for the solo World War II game, Halls of Hegra, the story of a German siege of a Norwegian base during the Nazi invasion in 1940.

The game was designed by Petter Schanke Olsen with artwork by Jog Brogzin and Joeri Lefevre. It was published in 2023 by Tompet Games.

In this game, you build up the ragtag forces manning the abandoned mountain fortress, trying to fix it up some and perhaps find some more guns or whatever. Then the Germans attack and you have to withstand the siege.

When I actually get the game played (I’ve looked at it and done a couple of demo turns), I’ll talk a bit more about the game itself.

But how do you store all the counters and wooden blocks that represent your men?

You could do baggies.

But that could be a lot of baggies! Or a lot of sorting if you use fewer baggies and include more pieces in each one.

How about some trays to help you sort?

This one is really easy as well, though as with a number of these games, you do have to pack the cards a little bit.

First, the counters and wooden bits.

That entire left side is made up of German soldier meeples that will come onto the board later in the game.

The other compartments have the other counters, the cubes, and the wooden discs that represent the men you will be recruiting to fight for you.

These are doubled up some, but still easily accessible.

It uses one of the 12-compartment, 15 mm depth trays with a lid.

Why not use one of the 20-compartment trays that would allow you to split things up a bit?

The box isn’t long enough for that!

For the cards, I used one of the 10 mm (28 cards) trays and one of the 16 mm (42 cards) trays.

All of the main game cards fit in the deep one (that’s 53 cards!) while the morale cards fit in the smaller one.

Everything fits great, except that there isn’t a tray that fits the snow tiles very well so they’re just in a bag.

They do fit in a divided card tray for Mini Euro cards, but that just seemed kind of pointless.

Plus, with the cloth bags and everything, another card tray wouldn’t fit in the box!

One other thing of note: the awkward size of the board makes it so the card trays can’t go on the side, but also makes it so one of the card trays hangs over the edge and may bang around a bit.

But you can’t have everything!

The most important question is whether these trays will make the game easier to play, and I can already say that they do.

My test turns, I just had the tray on the table and pulled counters or men from it as needed.

So there you go!

Another great storage solution from Cube4Me.

What do you think of this one?

What do you think of the game?

Let me know in the comments.