RE: [FT/DS] Re: planetary invasion games.

Heaven and Earth (Traveller support software) does random maps of
worlds. 
 Scaleing them might be a issue.

Michael Brown

-----Original Message-----
From:	Flak Magnet
Sent:	Monday, October 14, 2002 6:32 AM
To:	gzg-l@csua.berkeley.edu
Subject:	Re: [FT/DS] Re: planetary invasion games.

Great idea... Now, who's going to write up the program that draws those
maps and allows customization of the layout of the planet?

Anyone?  Anyone?  Beuller?

On Mon, 2002-10-14 at 09:28, Roger Burton West wrote:
> On Mon, Oct 14, 2002 at 08:23:33AM -0500, devans@nebraska.edu wrote:
>
> >Also, it uses a
> >non-rectangular, psuedo-'Bucky Fuller' globe, not unlike the Ren Leg
game.
>
> The best compromise between gameability and accuracy I've seen on a
> world map was GDW's old technique - map the world onto an icosahedron
> (d20), and then flatten that. If you size the hex grid just right, you
> get a pair of five-sided "hexes" at the poles, and everything else
works
> without any problems...
>
> Roger
>
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