Slitherine

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ORIGINAL: Randy Stead

The reason I wanted to know the hex coordinates is because I am following Kull's spreadsheet. I wanted to follow his orders so I could look at the patrol zone patterns and examine what he did and why he did it that way. At first I was thinking maybe my map mods messed things up, but apparently not. When in the general map view I can access all the buttons at the top, but when setting each patrol boundary all that info at the top disappears. I have figured out a way, sort of, to see them. I find the hex coordinates Kull suggests then I make a note of them [such as: 1 hex west of DH, the hex NW of a word, etc.] Fidgety, but it does work after a fashion. I'm also following along with the "Let's Play" videos. He explains why Kull makes suggestions and once in a while he digresses and explains why. All of this is giving me a flavour of the game, and of course I am making save intervals; when finally done I will have reproduced Kull's turn 1 and will make backup copies so as to be able to revert if/when I wish to restart.

Thanks for all suggestions.

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ORIGINAL: Kull

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ORIGINAL: Randy Stead

The reason I wanted to know the hex coordinates is because I am following Kull's spreadsheet. I wanted to follow his orders so I could look at the patrol zone patterns and examine what he did and why he did it that way. At first I was thinking maybe my map mods messed things up, but apparently not. When in the general map view I can access all the buttons at the top, but when setting each patrol boundary all that info at the top disappears. I have figured out a way, sort of, to see them. I find the hex coordinates Kull suggests then I make a note of them [such as: 1 hex west of DH, the hex NW of a word, etc.] Fidgety, but it does work after a fashion. I'm also following along with the "Let's Play" videos. He explains why Kull makes suggestions and once in a while he digresses and explains why. All of this is giving me a flavour of the game, and of course I am making save intervals; when finally done I will have reproduced Kull's turn 1 and will make backup copies so as to be able to revert if/when I wish to restart.

Thanks for all suggestions.

This is one area where I almost regret being so prescriptive. There isn't a "magic sauce" formula which you'll decipher by identifying every one of the patrol locations and linger times. For submarine patrols, the "patrol around" button is your friend. Just look at the title of the patrol (I tell you roughly where each one will be located), and then - after clicking "patrol around", select a hex somewhere in that region (but NOT a land hex, or you'll only get 2 patrol points). Usually I'll pick a location near a major port or a choke point.

That will fill in all three locations, to include linger times. Now you could edit those easily enough, but over the years I've learned that's not really necessary - especially against the AI. Relying on the the patrol point algorithm will save you a lot of time.

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ORIGINAL: BBfanboy

And this does not mean the patrol is an Auto-sub patrol, it is still under human control after you set the waypoints.

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ORIGINAL: InfiniteMonkey

Go to https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1h_EPT2MJgRFqeDuwaG8W34DeaqAXSidH?usp=sharing

There is a map mod there that puts hex coordinates on the map on every 10 hexes horizontally / vertically. You just take those images and save them to C:\Matrix Games\witpae\ART. (your path will differ from mine since I renamed the directory)

I have a program that can label hex locations on the map. You can contact me on XTRG's discord if you want it labelled differently (font, color, vertical/horizontal spacing). A vertical / horizontal spacing of 1 labels every hex.

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ORIGINAL: Kull

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ORIGINAL: Randy Stead

The reason I wanted to know the hex coordinates is because I am following Kull's spreadsheet. I wanted to follow his orders so I could look at the patrol zone patterns and examine what he did and why he did it that way. At first I was thinking maybe my map mods messed things up, but apparently not. When in the general map view I can access all the buttons at the top, but when setting each patrol boundary all that info at the top disappears. I have figured out a way, sort of, to see them. I find the hex coordinates Kull suggests then I make a note of them [such as: 1 hex west of DH, the hex NW of a word, etc.] Fidgety, but it does work after a fashion. I'm also following along with the "Let's Play" videos. He explains why Kull makes suggestions and once in a while he digresses and explains why. All of this is giving me a flavour of the game, and of course I am making save intervals; when finally done I will have reproduced Kull's turn 1 and will make backup copies so as to be able to revert if/when I wish to restart.

Thanks for all suggestions.

This is one area where I almost regret being so prescriptive. There isn't a "magic sauce" formula which you'll decipher by identifying every one of the patrol locations and linger times. For submarine patrols, the "patrol around" button is your friend. Just look at the title of the patrol (I tell you roughly where each one will be located), and then - after clicking "patrol around", select a hex somewhere in that region (but NOT a land hex, or you'll only get 2 patrol points). Usually I'll pick a location near a major port or a choke point.

That will fill in all three locations, to include linger times. Now you could edit those easily enough, but over the years I've learned that's not really necessary - especially against the AI. Relying on the the patrol point algorithm will save you a lot of time.