Re: FT Taskforce and Fleet Actions

I like your calculations.  Figuring how big to make the grid is the easy
part...ever tried figuring out how big the map sheet will be?

120 hexs across at about 5/8ths per hex (assuming hexs for 1/2"
counters) is
about
75" square.  Thats about 6.25 feet on a side.
Enormous map!

Not everyone has access to that much room for a single map.

Donald Hosford.

Ryan Gill wrote:

> At 6:44 PM -0400 8/6/01, Laserlight wrote:
> > > 80-100 hexes across is the overall map known as Theatre Action
Scale
> >
> >That's a LOT of hexes, don't you think?
>
> It may get scaled down, but some of the size is due to the need for
> the correct scale representing an entire system. Generally you're
> going to be fighting near planets or on the axis between an attacker
> and the planets you are defending. So there will be a lot of empty
> space that you don't fight in. But, remember, that 100 across is
> diameter, its half that from edge to center.
>
> If its too small then the entire inside area of the Solar System (the
> benchmark) is going to be in one hex area. Thats too small. The earth
> is at 1 Astronomical Unit (143 x10^6 miles),
> Venus   .72 AU
> Mercury .4 AU
> Mars	  1.5 AU
> Jupiter 5 AU
> Saturn 9.5 AU
> Uranus  19 AU
> Neptune 30 AU
> Pluto   39 AU
>
> If a map is based on .5 AU per hex then from center to Uranus will be
> 38 hexes out with a diameter of 76 across. Neptune will be 60 hexes