Hexagonal map for Strategus and Ideas on how to (AB)USE it!

[Reinhardt]

No any new gameplay features? 

Sounds about right..

[Gafgarion]

Never played the old strategus, but I can now image a war room (or a teamspeak server) where people move pieces around a giant map to plan strategies around armies, castles, towns, etc on the hex overworld battlefield.

Reminds me of a ton of games and this video (The focus is the chess board).

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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_rS_n3JVTPE

Of course, any Strategus would do at this point. =)

[Jarlek]

Never played the old strategus, but I can now image a war room (or a teamspeak server) where people move pieces around a giant map to plan strategies around armies, castles, towns, etc on the hex overworld battlefield.

Reminds me of a ton of games and this video (The focus is the chess board).

(click to show/hide)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_rS_n3JVTPE

Of course, any Strategus would do at this point. =)

OMG AGE OF EMPIRES II! I haven't seen that intro movie in ages! I'm wanna go play it now

[Perceval]

YEAH
+1

[KaMiKaZe_JoE]

Idea of hexagonal (or octagonal, or penisgonal) map gets my support!

[Sultan Eren]

We can model every hex to a map and we can actually have a battle on the ground which we see on the hex like Total War Series. Too much time doing it?

[mandible/splinteryourjaw]

This also worked well in Civil War Generals 1 & 2  where each hex had a terrain boost/decrease, morale gain/decrease, speed affect, etc.    These conditions were based on proximity, landscape, snipers range, woodlands, rivers, valleys, towns, hills, you get the point.  Some great ambushes came out of it also.

It was very strategic because you could move two hexes and be at a big disadvantage...you really had to plan your attack and approach.

[Butan]

Everything Thomek said +1

[Electro]

i agree with this but a new idea
 instead of hexagon you have a sqaure
the square will have 9 more sqaures in that square
so it would be like

789
456
123
and all those numbers would be in 1 square .

Electro

[Thomek]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hex_map

Nah, I think hex is better, it is more clear what tiles are adjacent, and it is the same distance to every adjacent tile like described in that article.

[Amo_the_Grey]

hexagonal map will add a really positive strategic aspect I like it.

[monsterbrum]

I'm allready thinking abaut the cool economical aspects that could be added this way
-Every ticket would need an spesific amaunt of suplies.
-spesific hexes grow spesific "suplies", like: hexes in green (grassy) lands are the only hexes that would grow wheath.
-than an faction needs more food, the faction is realy strong it declears war with another faction, wich isnt strong but has good land for growing wheath, than when the defenders pull back they burn the fields, so the enemy starves. Think abaut the hunderd years war, the french did it, napoleons invasion in russia etc..
-an harvest fails, but an faction was so smart to smart to save a bunch of it and thusford has a lot of power cause of the saved suplies they have.

I like putting in an mixtiure of strategic things like defending passes and stuff connected to economical things.

[Thomek]

Yeah.. burning the fields is a great idea..

Or the whole idea that the land starts out green and rich, but after being savaged by war becomes less and less attractive economically. If u could construct improvements on tiles..

Pillaging towns and villages, destroying those improvements etc. Could be interesting!

[3ABP]

Too big "grid".
Vote - NO. In this case.

In case of smaller "grid" - may be.

[Thomek]

the first pic is of course to big grid. its merely illustration.