Awaken Realms made a nice insert for This War of Mine. It’s like the interior is divided into 9 sections. Many of the sections have two levels with a narrow smaller section at the bottom followed by a standard card sized section above it! It looks like this:
You can see the four sections that have two levels of depth. You also can see how there is a rounded out part of the insert “grid” that makes room for a finger to slide down to gracefully pull out the cards.
So, for me, I had to unlearn that I had to put all the tokens into separate bags. One bag for the green tokens, one for the yellow tokens, etc. Yes, you CAN still do this, but Awaken Realms has designed their game insert in a way that you can place the tokens in the lower level of the four double level sections and then when you place the cards on top of them, the cards act like a cover to keep the tokens in their places without the need of a bag. And finally, placing the thick six piece game board on top of the cards keeps the cards in their bins as well. And after that there still is room at the top for the various books, booklets, save pad and even handy printouts that you make for yourself.
When I am done playing the game, putting it all back into the box is really quite easy. I start by placing the tokens in all the sections, taking care that the tokens in the four double level sections do not go above the bottom level. I still put all the miniature models in a bag, but I think I could place them in the largest bin section loosely without the need of the bag:
Notice that the insert actually has enough room for me to place my Game Trayz triple section tray right in the bin inside the the insert (I have the cover off to the side, but when packed, the cover is snapped onto the game trayz bin).
Next, I place the cards on top of the tokens in the four sections that are double level.
NOTE: if you sleeve your Character cards (as I recommend, so that you can print additional Character cards on your printer and shuffle them in with those that came with the game), the sleeved cards don’t quite fit in the sections for cards. But I only have 15 Character cards, so it is not a problem as you will soon see!
Next, I place the game board on top of this. It holds the cards in place (which in turn are keeping the tokens in place).
Then I place my 15 Character cards spread out across the top of the game board:
Finally, I place the books and booklets as well as my own 7 cards and other helpful printouts on top of that:
There is plenty of room for everything in the Core Game!
But, yeah, now I have the Kickstarter Edition! Will everything STILL fit? Stay tuned for more (when I have time).
This War of Ours 
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