Game-world size of hexes

[harlandski]

I've Googled this, but all I could find was discussions of the increase of hexes in size from 1 to 1.5 inches in some of the new reprints.

But my question is - how much space is a hex supposed to represent in the game world? Are hexes 10 feet, 10 yards, or something else across? This question has come up as I want to run a combat on a bridge, and I want to give the bridge reasonable proportions.

As I've said in my other posts, I have the "Two Complete Games in One Box" version of the game.

[Chris Rice]

Originally Posted by harlandski

I've Googled this, but all I could find was discussions of the increase of hexes in size from 1 to 1.5 inches in some of the new reprints.

But my question is - how much space is a hex supposed to represent in the game world? Are hexes 10 feet, 10 yards, or something else across? This question has come up as I want to run a combat on a bridge, and I want to give the bridge reasonable proportions.

As I've said in my other posts, I have the "Two Complete Games in One Box" version of the game.

I always thought a hex was 4 feet across, but I'm not sure where it says that in the rules.

[Chris Rice]

Found it. ITL page 101. It is 4 feet across a hex.

[ak_aramis]

Originally Posted by Chris Rice

Found it. ITL page 101. It is 4 feet across a hex.

Older edition was metric 1 1/3 m per hex. So 3' 10'.

[David Bofinger]

Originally Posted by ak_aramis

Older edition was metric 1 1/3 m per hex. So 3' 10'.

1.333 metres is 4 feet and 4.5 inches. The hexes have got smaller in Legacy.

[horowits]

I didn't see a size mentioned in the Melee booklet from your edition. It only referenced hexes. Chris is correct though. Map Scales are on p. 55 in the ITL rules and says a Basic Melee combat hex is 4 feet.

Edit: Too slow, it's also on the page Chris mentioned first. :)

[hcobb]

This makes each hex the rough equivalent of the about a square meter that historical armies allocated per soldier.

The Megahexes are ten feet apart and so one megahex is the rough equivalent of the ten foot by ten foot square found in other games.

[larsdangly]

I do a lot of conversions of OSR materials to TFT, and I use a flat 1-MH per 10' square to convert maps. This is a pretty successful system.

[David Bofinger]

Originally Posted by larsdangly

I do a lot of conversions of OSR materials to TFT, and I use a flat 1-MH per 10' square to convert maps. This is a pretty successful system.

Hexes are 4 feet, so a megahex is 97 square feet, which is more than accurate enough for almost anyone's purposes.

[harlandski]

Originally Posted by larsdangly

I do a lot of conversions of OSR materials to TFT, and I use a flat 1-MH per 10' square to convert maps. This is a pretty successful system.

This sounds like a neat idea.