One of my regular blog readers – Littlejohn – has come up with a very simple and effective method to draw a hexed grid, and his most recent blog entry explains how he used it to create a hexed playing surface for a naval wargame.
His idea was to create a template that used the redundant part of the cardboard terrain from a copy of Richard Borg's BATTLE CRY game. After the terrain hexes were punched out, the cardboard he was left with was a matrix of hexagonal cut-outs, and he converted it to become a template.
The idea is so simple and effective that it deserves recognition, and in my opinion is one of the best ideas I have read about or seen this year ... and for some time before that as well!
Hats off to Littlejohn for coming up with it!
His idea was to create a template that used the redundant part of the cardboard terrain from a copy of Richard Borg's BATTLE CRY game. After the terrain hexes were punched out, the cardboard he was left with was a matrix of hexagonal cut-outs, and he converted it to become a template.
The idea is so simple and effective that it deserves recognition, and in my opinion is one of the best ideas I have read about or seen this year ... and for some time before that as well!
Hats off to Littlejohn for coming up with it!
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I have an unopened copy of Battle Cry sat behind me as I write. I shall look forward to putting the left-over hexes to use, once I'm allowed to actually open it - at Christmas :(
ReplyDeleteKaptain Kobold,
ReplyDeleteI own copies of both the original and the latest versions ... and if my enjoyment of the games is anything to go by, you are going to have a great Christmas!
All the best,
Bob