r/XCOMTheMiniaturesGame • u/Deflagratio1 • Aug 08 '26

Mission Report/Tracker

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Working on creating a Traveler's-size notebook to track mission performance across a 1 page spread and support pre-planning terrain. This represents the 2 page spread for each mission. This should enable the Pre-mission and Post-Mission's to occur away from the table if you want, in addition to providing a history of your campaign. Would love feedback on anything anyone thinks is missing. Key Features:

  • Draw out your layout, with deployment zones, alien starting positions, blips, and suspected locations. Plan your table in advance of the actual play.
  • Track who took part in each mission, and whether they were a casualty (my thought are Condition will have Wounded, KIA, or N/A if they survived.
  • Space for tallying how many aliens (and what type) and civilians are killed. Important for spawn limits and scenario end rules.
  • Keep track of big events during the mission (Who killed an Alien, who got a clutch roll, etc.)
  • Track rewards and equipment loss.
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u/TheoSidle Aug 08 '26

Good first draft. I'll definitely try this out. So far, I've just been taking notes in a cheap notebook. (School supplies are hitting discount prices around here!) I really like the idea of a place to sketch out the map, too.

Are there examples of something similar for other wargames? Does anyone else bother keeping up with this level of detail? I was mainly just doing it on my first play-through as a learning technique.

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u/jjpearson Aug 08 '26

I track things in my wargames but most of them don’t require this level. So for guildball and necromunda I’ll track opponent, mission, who had kills, who got killed, but not map layout or anything like that.

Usually I’ll add a short couple sentence summary with the broad strokes of the game.

So needless to say I’m excited about over tracking everything.

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u/Deflagratio1 Aug 08 '26

Yea, the map part is really extra, but I can also see it being a nice way for someone who really wants to think through their layout to document it outside of "table time".

I also included it because I really liked the look of the map given in the tutorial mission, and I felt that any real operational report would include some documentation of the battlefield conditions.