06-15-2018, 02:35 AM | #11 | |
Join Date: May 2013
Location: Tyler, Texas
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Re: Size of Melee Hexes
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If you make battle mats, tiles, etc., please consider using hexes a bit larger than 1 inch. Of course, that would make them incompatible with the Melee map, so it may not be practicable. |
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06-15-2018, 02:52 AM | #12 |
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06-15-2018, 06:19 AM | #13 |
Join Date: Jun 2018
Location: Cidri
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Re: Size of Melee Hexes
We used SJ's Cardboard Heroes because they were sized to fit the ITL hexes. I still have a bunch of these around. My miniature painting through the years has progressed to a high quality and I would love to be able to use 28mm figures instead. The .PDF option is really nice, Steve, since I have access to a laser cutter and would love to make appropriately sized MDF or acrylic dungeon tiles with it.
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06-15-2018, 07:16 AM | #14 |
Join Date: Mar 2009
Location: Cleveland, OH USA
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Re: Size of Melee Hexes
One of the things Steve showed me yesterday was how the dry erase megahexes could be used to expand from the edges of the upcoming Melee and Wizard maps, to build bigger and more complex boards that match areas of the colored map. So it's likely that the megahexes will be the same scale of the map for this reason.
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06-15-2018, 07:21 AM | #15 |
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06-15-2018, 09:21 AM | #16 |
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Location: Idaho Falls
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06-15-2018, 09:50 AM | #17 | |
Join Date: Sep 2004
Location: Oakland, CA, USA
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Re: Size of Melee Hexes
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Now that I dredge back in the pits of my memory, I recall that the Melee hexes were a bit small when things got crowded. Perhaps 30mm is a happy medium. |
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06-15-2018, 10:10 AM | #18 |
Join Date: Mar 2009
Location: Cleveland, OH USA
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Re: Size of Melee Hexes
Legal is 8.5" x 14", close to the original. Needs to comfortably fit 3 x 5 megahexes, and the scale needs to allow a 5 x 5 megahex map for the larger Wizard sheet (14" x 14"?). And both need to match the size of the components (counters and rules) and fold in such a way as to meet the packaging and shipping requirements. Scale any one element up or down, and everything else may need to be re-evaluated.
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06-15-2018, 10:38 AM | #19 | |
Join Date: May 2013
Location: Tyler, Texas
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Re: Size of Melee Hexes
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I’d make every commercially reasonable effort to try to accommodate them, if I were SJG. A lack of interoperability with existing RPG gear may make folks far less willing to try TFT. (There’s already gonna be a bit of an issue with using hexes - that aren’t even the same scale as GURPS - so I hope that Steve will include a “how to play TFT with squares” appendix. That will be so much better than relying on the fan base to come up with something IMHO. As an aside, in 1981, 25mm miniatures were much closer to true 25mm. Most had small bases - 1/2-3/4 inches. The Cardboard Heroes have a comparable footprint to the miniatures available at the time. Even 19mm hexes were adequate for such miniatures. Everything has just gotten bigger since then. Last edited by tbeard1999; 06-15-2018 at 11:39 AM. |
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06-15-2018, 10:52 AM | #20 |
Join Date: Sep 2004
Location: Oakland, CA, USA
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Re: Size of Melee Hexes
...though with the prevalence of laser cutters today, there's nothing that would prevent you from making your own megahaxes at whatever scale you want.
In MDF they would be quite economical. |
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