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Andrew Brown -> RE: Admiral's Edition Map Thread (8/1/2008 3:12:34 PM)
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ORIGINAL: m10bob
Fan of Andrews' maps from day one, I am wondering if the hexes will have a uniform distance, regardless of water or land?..In vanilla, it was fudged.(Vanilla fudge!Good band but lousy for maps.)[8D]
Yes the scale is uniform, within the limits of the map projection, with no difference between how land and sea distances are treated.
There are two exceptions though: India and North America, which are both at the edges of the map, have been "shortened" a little to make the map more aesthetically appealing. This shortening also has the effect of making the land distances, and air ranges, in these areas more accurate, at the expense of introducing an equivalent sized error in sea distances. In the case of North America this slightly increases the distance between the US West Coast and some parts of the South Pacific, by 1 or 2 hexes. This was a compromise I was prepared to accept for having the North American continent look less "stretched" than it otherwise would have. In the case of India there is no real effect, because the affected sea distances - to bases in Africa - are abstracted, and so have been adjusted to account for the effect of the shortening. These are the only two such alterations.
Andrew
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