LOL, I was thinking the exact same thing. It's a pain for me to carry around a slew of dice with me all the time, especially if you play a squad that has swarms of characters with more than 10 HP, like Aqualish Assassins or something. Then you have to have 10 tiny dice just to mark a '2' on every character. Much prefer to have two markers, and my thumb to wipe them off.

Picking up a marker, removing the cap, writing on a card, then replacing the cap and setting the marker down always works well as a visual cue to me. Turning a die: not so much.

I have a dice cube that I've had for who knows how long. 36 D6 all neatly contained in a small box that hardly takes up any room in my squad box. If i ever get to play WaS I'm already set. I can make 2 Iowa attacks at once.

I saw Aaron's method at Gencon. It works. But it's hard to see across the table, and all that changing with a thumb-wipe on a character like Luke & Yoda specifically is likely going to be a mess.

Entertaining when thought of as humor rather than criticism.

Following the track of the topic, there are of course still the punch-out counters from the various starters and DCI kits. Of course, when you're at 25 Force you may not have enough counters to cover that.