Looming Success

I TRY to browse as many charity shops, pound stores and the like, as you never know what may catch your eye.
My latest find is a 50p pack of loom bands from a shop in Watney Market, East London.

Loom bands … not just for ten-year-old girls

The pack has scores, probably hundreds, of coloured rubber bands - far more than I will use, but the price makes that irrelevant.
My idea is the bands can be used as relatively unobtrusive casualty markers for Project Kaiser, in which I plan to use 54mm toy soldiers to refight the main battles of the Franco-Prussian War on their 150th anniversaries.
Regular infantry and cavalry units will likely have a strength value of four points.
If, as planned, an infantry unit consists of four figures, it will be simple to indicate the loss of a strength point by removing a figure.
Cavalry units, however, will probably consist of two figures, so there needs to be way of showing when an odd number of strength points, ie one or three, has been lost.
The photo below of two Bavarian cavalry shows how this will work.

The loom band over the head of the righthand figure shows the unit has lost a strength point