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<blockquote data-quote="Crazy Jerome" data-source="post: 4104616" data-attributes="member: 54877">Clue was 2-2-2-2.But the board game/computer game thoughts are good ones.&nbsp; If 1-1-1-1 bothers your immersion that much, but you want the benefits of the rule, simply orient your battlemat so that it is a diamond instead of a square (relative to your players, and preferably relative to the table it is on).This is what Civ 1 did.&nbsp; They did it because it tended to change people's perceptions of the world.&nbsp; (That is, the wonkiness was still there, but if you wanted to just think of it as a grid plopped down, it was easier.)&nbsp; They only dropped it in the later versions because the user interface for movement confused some players.I make it 50/50 that some wise guy will come up with a diamond shaped battle mat (rotate the grid on the same square mat), and make a few sales to 4E players.&nbsp; <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f600.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":D" title="Big grin&nbsp; &nbsp; :D"&nbsp; data-smilie="8"data-shortname=":D" /></blockquote>

[QUOTE="Crazy Jerome, post: 4104616, member: 54877"] Clue was 2-2-2-2. But the board game/computer game thoughts are good ones. If 1-1-1-1 bothers your immersion that much, but you want the benefits of the rule, simply orient your battlemat so that it is a diamond instead of a square (relative to your players, and preferably relative to the table it is on). This is what Civ 1 did. They did it because it tended to change people's perceptions of the world. (That is, the wonkiness was still there, but if you wanted to just think of it as a grid plopped down, it was easier.) They only dropped it in the later versions because the user interface for movement confused some players. I make it 50/50 that some wise guy will come up with a diamond shaped battle mat (rotate the grid on the same square mat), and make a few sales to 4E players. :D [/QUOTE]

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