Insert for Lost Ruins of Arnak and Leaders expansion

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And I present my insert for CGE's Lost Ruins of Arnak, plus Leaders expansion. The idea was initially based on the excellent insert by Sergio Soto - his insert for the base game is very pretty and made me really think about how I could up my own game in terms of inserts' aesthetics. However, not only is the layout of my design quite different, I ended up using no part of Sergio's files at all (actually that is a lie - I copied the shape of the site tiles from his). The insert is built to my own particular needs - which in this case means sleeved cards and coin capsules, and no bulky pad of score sheets. instead I laminate one sheet and have a wet-erase pen in the box. I have also added a cloth bag to my copy, so that I can draw tiles at random during setup; the pen and bag both fit on top of the wooden token holder. I use Sleeve Kings sleeves because they are a little less bulky than other premium brands - although thicker sleeves MAY work, I offer no guarantees. Leaders rules and resources board fits on top of the card trays and site tiles; the long Leader's camp fits on top of the coins and resource trays, with the other camps and player aids in two piles on top, along with the alternate research track.. The 4 base game camps are next, followed by the board with the base rules on top. And no lid-lift! I present two options for the resources. the first uses three shallow trays plus two larger ones for gold & compasses - as shown in the diagram.. The three resource trays are deliberately shallow; they ought to be assembled with 16 small neodymium magnets, 6mm long by 3mm in diameter. The magnets hold the trays together in transit (though I wonder if they are really necessary). The gold and compasses trays are available in two flavours - for coin capsules and just as trays. The alternative is to print out five of the one design of resource tray; they fit in the same space, but don't suffer from the issue of being so shallow. I printed mine in the five colurs :) I'm not completely happy with having all the players' pieces in one tray (I usually try to keep each players' starting "stuff" separate in my inserts), but it works here. I'm not completely happy with one of the large cardboard tokens trays either - not least because there is some empty space in it), and the Guardians tile stack could have done with being another millimetre or two taller - but I ran out of space. I think that this is my new favourite insert :)