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Area of 2m hex in square feet

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tomd1969
, Mar 30th, '08 at 11:43 AM (1383 Views)
This question has come up on the Hero boards on occasion: "What is the area of a hex in sq ft?"

The answer could actually be simple, except for one thing: there seems to be a disagreement about what is meant by a 2m hex. Some argue that (case a) the hex is measured from one corner to the exact opposite corner (through the "center" of the hex). Another argument (case b--and this is the position I hold) is that a 2m hex means that if I'm standing in the center of a hex and someone is standing in the center of an adjacent hex, then we are 2m apart. These are not the same things: if the 2m hex is measured as in case (a) above, 2 people standing in adjacent hexes would actually be 1.73m apart. While this would make a certain amount of sense (whom do you know, other than someone in the NBA, that has a 6.6 feet reach?), I don't think this is what the designers had in mind.

The attached PDF is what I believe the area of a hex is in sq ft. Note that I have indicated approximations where I've encountered them. Also, I have skipped some steps that I felt either should be obvious (such as the elementary algebra and/or trig).

If you have any questions, comments, fruit (Hey! I like fruit), please feel free to comment here, or PM me.

Area of a 2m hex.pdf

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Updated Apr 9th, '08 at 11:24 AM by tomd1969

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  1. Aroooo's Avatar
    Kudos! Pity you can't rep blogs.

    I do remember reading somewhere, a long long time ago, that the way a hex is 'measured' is the way you have illustrated. It had to do with measuring 25mm miniatures and mapping them, but more than that I can't remember any more...
  2. tomd1969's Avatar
    But blog entries can be rated.

    Thanks for the support Aroooo. I have had further thoughts about this: movement powers are based on a 2m hex being measured as I have it above. It would make no sense to me to measure a hex from A to D (to use the points in the above document)--as I say above the distance traveled if you move from one hex to another would only be 1.73m, which would shoot all of my MPH calculations to heck.
    Updated Apr 1st, '08 at 11:41 PM by tomd1969 (Missed an "o" in Aroooo's name.)

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