Saturday, 23 May 2009

More on map size

I've got a rather nice fit of the hex grid with a slightly larger map. With judicious use of off-board areas (for Exeter, the Welsh coast, Norwich, Stranraer and the North of Scotland), I have a map that is 15 hexes long. For the southernmost third, it is 8 hexes wide; then the width drops to 6 hexes for a short section, while the northernmost half of the map is just 4 hexes wide. This gives a total playable area of 86 hexes, which might be just about acceptable.

The result is similar in overall shape and size to 1856, or to 1825 Units 1 & 2 combined. So it would be playable, but possibly slightly bigger than I had in mind.

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