Hexes or Squares?

[IronWolf]

Squares for most everything, especially combat. I am not against using hexes for outdoor movement.

 

[jerichothebard]

hexes - it's what I have. Of course, if I'm using a pre-printed map, I won't redraw it, or anything like that. And I did a square mosaic puzzle this weekend; that wasn't a problem...

 

[Intrope]

Offset Squares! same movement/distance/radius advantages as a hex map (no diagonal move rules, distance == square count, etc.), but you can actually draw non-mutant shape rooms easily.

If only I knew of a vendor for offset-square battlemats...

 

[Samuel Leming]

Offset Squares! same movement/distance/radius advantages as a hex map (no diagonal move rules, distance == square count, etc.), but you can actually draw non-mutant shape rooms easily.

If only I knew of a vendor for offset-square battlemats...

I remember offset squares from SJG's Melee, Wizard, & The Fantasy Trip. Great idea.

Otherwise, as the Auld Gump said.

Sam

 

[Patryn of Elvenshae]

Hexes are nice because they allow for more precise movement, eliminating the weirdness of the "diagonal move" in a grid.

Of course, they add the additional problem of not being able to move in straight lines in certain directions!

 

[Psion]

Squares inside, hexes outside.

That one.

 

[was]

squares

 

[painandgreed]

Squares. Although sometimes I just go free form and simply measure distance as a crow flies. I haven't done this with minis and tape measures yet for dungeon melee combat but with a soldi background in tabletop mini battles from old 40k, it sounds like a good idea to me if we could just get 1" round base on all the minis.

 

[dragonier]

How about neither...?

Hi all,

This is my first time posting on the boards but I've been a long time lurker. I just had to chime in here.

I've been seriously toying with the idea of dropping pre-marked maps entirely. I still want to use minis or counters, but I'm really beginning to feel like a couple rulers and maybe some area-of-effect templates would me more than sufficient. I also kinda' like the idea of people not knowing exact distances and ranges. Makes things a little more trial-and-error, not to mention forcing most spell-casters to think carefully about using that fireball in close quarters.

Has anyone tried this? If so, how did it work?

ray

 

[Sejs]

Hexes. Pretty much all the floppy maps my group has were purchased during the 2nd ed/3rd ed gap, in which we had started GURPSing.

I am happy to say, however, that the big floppy hexmap we use is one that has little dots in the center of the hexes, so you can measure half-hexes, and the space between two centerpoint dots is pretty much the same as between the two opposite sides of a hex. Very handy.