The Last Hundred Yards – Russian Front – Storage Solution With Rails on Board

There’s just something about the simplicity of the plastic tray solutions provided by Rails on Board/Cube4Me.

Something that’s really attractive.

I think it’s the ability to nest trays together so you only need one lid, as long as the counters you are storing in the bottom tray don’t pile up too much.

When I mentioned getting the new The Last Hundred Yards: Russian Front game from GMT Games, and knowing that I’ve done storage for the first three installments, you had to know this one was coming, right?

This game looks really intriguing as it takes the Last Hundred Yards system and adapts it to the Russians in really unique ways (at least from the rulebook).

One of these days, I’ll actually get to play it on the table!

But in the meantime, the storage looks really cool.

The weird thing about this one, though, is that it needs the first two volumes (the first installment and Airborne Over Europe) because this set comes with very few German counters!

How does that work?

Let’s take a look.

I’m still unclear on how to figure out which original set the Germans in each scenario are coming from, and there’s no way to house all of the Germans in one box.

Maybe have all of the counters in one box and all of the maps/player aids/etc in another box? Then you just have two boxes instead of three?

But this article is about a storage solution assuming that you are keeping everything in its own box.

If you decide to do it the other way, then you can probably still use all three storage solutions for how many trays you need and then just put all of the trays in one box.

That would work!

Anyway, here’s what I’ve come up with.

The set consists of two of the Cube4Me 20-compartment, 15mm deep trays, one with a lid.

The link is for the “no lid” tray, but you also do need to order one with a lid on it.

The bottom tray contains all of the unit counters (see the one measly tray of Germans?).

These are split up by company and platoon, with a few vehicles and bunkers and stuff thrown in.

Here’s a bit more detailed look at the enormous amount of Russians.

Sadly, there are so many platoons that I did have to mix one of the companies into a couple of the others.

The top tray holds all of the markers and stuff, including a shit-ton of SDM markers.

It also holds the dice, so has to be the top tray because the lid barely fits over it.

You could leave the dice in their own separate little bag if you want, but we’re trying to get rid of bags!

As usual, it all fits in the box very snugly.

So snugly that there’s no way you can get any other trays in there, if you were thinking of maybe including your other German trays.

Nope!

If I can get this to the table, I will have to figure out the best way to transport.

Decide ahead of time what scenario we’re playing and then decide which of the original two boxes to bring?

Do what I was talking about regarding counters in one box and maps/etc in the other box, and always bring two?

Your mileage may vary.

But that’s ok!

Do you have this one? What do you think of it?

Let me know in the comments.