Ever been tired of carrying around a load of tools, tokens, dice and cards to an event but not had a decent way to store them? Or have you been away from home but still wanted to do some painting and bring an assortment of paints and brushes with you? Battle Kiwi have got a Kickstarter live at the moment that aims to combat both of these with a fully modular system allowing you to put together the hobby box of your dreams, with just the components you need, when you need them!

The guys at Battle Kiwi reached out about their new S.T.A.C.K system and asked if we wanted to check it out during their Kickstarter – being a collector of far to many dice, cards and tokens (and currently just dumping them all in a bag and dice tray) I was eager to see what their system looked like! They very kindly sent us over a physical copy to see what it looks like in the flesh.

In this article we’ll be looking at the system, seeing how it works and checking out what exactly you can store in it!

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So without further ado let’s see what the system is like!

Battle Kiwi S.T.A.C.K System Review

We’ve all been there, heading to a tournament or a gaming session away from home – but finding a decent way of sorting and storing all your various dials, tokens and cards can always take some work – especially if you play lots of different systems. Likewise, you can always throw some paints and brushes in a box if you are painting away from home, but this can often lead to damaged brushes and leaking paints!

To combat this, the Battle Kiwi team have put together a system that they call S.T.A.C.K (Strategic Tactical Accessories Command Kit) that allows a number of different modular trays to be slotted together into a compact stack for use for your games. The really nice thing about this approach is that you can have trays for everything you play, and simply slot together the components that you need when you are heading to an event.

These simply slot together, with a cover going over the completed stack to keep everything secure and tidy – I will say that the layers did take a little force at first to separate them, but after a couple of uses they came apart well, without them being able to slide out when in transport.

Oli from Battle Kiwi sent us over a couple of sample boxes and trays to check out on the site, so we’ll have a look at them each now!

Box number one was the GAMER box, and first up we have the 40k tray – this includes space to put your objective cards and also has dials to track your primary and secondary objectives along with command points and round number. The dials themselves have a satisfying click to them when you turn them, and the card sections hold the cards nicely

Next is one that is of lots of interest to us, the Age of Sigmar tray. This has more dials than the 40k, allowing you to keep track of which Battle Tactics you have picked and the score you have got for them, alongside Round, CP and VP counters. The boxout section here actually has enough room to store the entire deck from the General’s Handbook, making this one really useful for games of AOS! There’s also tiles that can be used to show which of the Tactics you have chosen too! I can see myself using this tray a lot!

Next down the Battle Kiwi Stack is a collection of rulers and markers! There’s a 3″, 6″ and 9″ ruler here, but the compartments actually have space for 9″ ones and even the metal 3″ AOS doofer too! This section also contains a collection of tokens to mark out deployment zones, making this helpful for multiple games.

The final tray in this box is another generic one that will be helpful for multiple different games. This holds 40 dice, an assortment of tokens, objective markers and a tape along with a laser pointer. I hope that the Battle Kiwi guys do an assortment of generic tokens and objective markers to go with this, but the spaces on here should be big enough to store most for most systems.

The Other box they sent us was their PAINTER stack, and this one as you would imagine contains trays that are useful for someone who wants to paint away from home!

The first tray is a decent one that holds an assortment of brushes of different sizes, including an indented area that will hold larger drybrushes – there’s a lot of foresight here such as making sure that the tray will close without damaging them by making sure that larger pushes fit further down in the recessed area.

The top half of this tray includes a removeable drybrush tester, allowing you to see the coverage of your drybrush before you use it on a model – these are really handy, and it’s nice that there’s one in the box! Under that there’s also a couple of recesses to use as a palette to mix paints too!

At the very bottom of the tray we also had a nice storage area for 24 pots of Citadel Paints (though Battle Kiwi also do trays for other paint ranges too)

I love the idea of being able to load this up with paints and brushes and being able to do a painting session away from my regular paint station! Again, all these trays are compatible with each other, so if you were heading to a tournament for example you could combine the gaming trays with the paint trays in case you need to make any emergency touch ups to your models!

The Kickstarter is live right now and there’s actually a lot of ways you can get these – Either as digital files to print yourself, or opt for a really reasonable physical version. While Battle Kiwi are based in New Zealand, they have shipping distribution from all around the world too, so it’s not going to cost a fortune to have them delivered too, which is always a really big factor in Kickstarters like this!

Over the course of the campaign they are also adding new trays for different game systems, and I really like the idea of being able to store all my tokens and dodads in these and swap them in and out of the stack as I need them!

Prices for the digital files start from as low as £15 for a single stack type, and there’s options all the way up to a physical all in pledge! Kickstarter ends on the 2nd October, so if you’re interested make sure to take a look!

Thanks again to Battle Kiwi for sending us these over to check out!