Under Falling Skies: Game Tile Frame System

This is a frame system to provide stability to the long stack of tiles in the board game Under Falling Skies. The four frame pieces are connected together progressively as the two base tiles, the city tile, and the four sky tiles are slid into them. The frame pieces include slots for the energy, research, and damage tokens.

For those playing the campaign game, character card stands are available which can click into the second frame near the city tile. There is a one-character stand, a long three-character stand, and a stacked three-character stand, depending on the user's preferences. Both left- and right-side variants of the character stand have been created, to keep the character cards out of the way of natural arm motion depending on whether the player is right-handed or left-handed.

For ease of storage, the four frame pieces include notches and pegs so that they stack cleanly. If one is using the special mothership base that was created for this frame system, the base fits conveniently between Frame 1 and Frame 2 when they are stacked for storage. One of the photos shows this arrangement.