A thing of purpose.

 I play a lot of A Gentleman's War and part of the rules is when a Joker card is drawn it can trigger events or perhaps reinforcements , these are pre-programed into the game and I usually scribble the sequence onto a piece of paper - which I then mislay . I needed a better way of recording this .....

I came across this piece of sawn MDF - NOT sawn by me - I'm genetically unable to cut wood to a required size ( I suspect it may have been provided by my friend 'S' who can do this sort of thing accurately and it's original purpose is long forgotten). In a moment of serendipity I thought I could use it to make a device to solve my AGW problem .

Behold the 'A Gentleman's War Game Turn Recording Device' (AGWGTRD) . I laminated the above and stuck it onto the MDF . I can now record the game sequence onto it using 'dry-wipe' pens , so we see when the first Joker is drawn - nothing happens , however on second an event card is drawn - and so on , I usually play a game till the sixth Joker is drawn to end the battle .

Here we see the 'AGWGTRD' in action on the tabletop recording the course of the conflict .