Hungarian Rhapsody – Mixed Tray Set Works Best!

We’d like to share one of our latest storage solutions, which uses a combination of our new counter trays along with one standard tray. This setup is extremely versatile and could work well for many different wargames.

This particular configuration was designed for Hungarian Rhapsody, a title from the Operational Combat Series (OCS) by MMP — but any game in the OCS line could benefit from a similar approach.

Key Advantages:

• The main shallow standard tray with 15 compartments is ideal for storing large quantities of counters where many are of the same type — for example: status markers, control counters, objective markers, or victory point tokens.
• The counter trays allow you to organize units by scenario or army. You can use as many as you need — in this case, we used five.
• This layout lets you keep one tray of shared/common counters easily accessible during gameplay, while maintaining separate trays for faction or army-specific counters.

Fit & Function:

This solution fits perfectly into the game box — which was not an easy task!
We received the game came with 3 standard black trays, which caused a significant lid lift, and the trays were overfilled.

With our setup, we’ve used:

• 1 × shallow tray with 15 compartments
• 5 × counter trays

The shallow tray is particularly well-suited for storing many counters because of its ideal depth and compartment size, making it easy to pick up counters during play.

It works perfectly with the most common counter sizes:

• ½″ counters ≈ 13 mm
  • You can fit 16 counters flat in one compartment.
  • Total compartment capacity: approximately 80 counters (stacked).
• 5/8″ counters = 16 mm
  • You can fit 9 counters flat in one compartment.
  • Total capacity: around 45 counters
  • This setup can be seen in Spruance Leader.
• 1″ counters = 25.4 mm
  • You can fit 4 counters flat in one compartment.
  • Total capacity: about 20 counters.
  • Also visible in Spruance Leader.

If you’re an OCS player or just looking to improve your counter management, this mixed tray solution is a great way to combine organization, accessibility, and box compatibility.

Looking Ahead

We recently received a great suggestion to rename our “Counter Trays” to “Counter Display Trays.”
We really like the idea — what do you think?
Does that name better reflect their true functionality?

Also, while designing the Hungarian Rhapsody setup, we realized that splitting each compartment in half could be a great idea.
This wouldn’t reduce the total capacity for small ½″ counters, but it would allow for a 30-compartment tray, which could be especially useful for many games that use small counters. What do you think about this idea?

Full list of games with 9mm depth 15 compartments tray

We have just received request for full list of games with this tray, so here it is:

A Pragmatic War: The War of the Austrian Succession 1741-1748
Advanced Squad Leader: Starter Kit #2
Advanced Squad Leader: Starter Kit #3
Battles of the American Revolution Tri-Pack II: Monmouth, Germantown, Newtown
Combat! Volume 1
Combat Commander: Pacific
Commands & Colors Tricorne: The American Revolution
Death Valley: Battles for the Shenandoah
El Rey Planeta / The Planet King
Europe in Turmoil: Prelude to the Great War
Hungarian Rhapsody: The Eastern Front in Hungary
Into the Woods: The Battle of Shiloh, April 6-7, 1862
Ligny 1815: Last Eagles
MAG-23 Guadalcanal
Midway
Navajo Wars
New Cold War
No Peace Without Spain! The War of the Spanish Succession 1702-1713
Railways of the Lost Atlas
Rommel in the Desert
Silent War 2.0
Spruance Leader
Stalingrad ’42: Southern Russia, June-December, 1942
The Greatest Day: Sword, Juno, and Gold Beaches
The Other Side of the Hill
Thunder in the East
Where Eagles Dare: The Battle for Hell’s Highway
Wing Leader: Supremacy 1943-1945

more coming soon…