So if you are in the middle of an 880ft hex, anything else in the hex is about 150 yards away. These 880ft hexes have some interesting stuff about them: The longer range of historical bow shot was 200 to 400 yards and the standard practice range as set down by Henry the VIII was 220yds, or 660ft. Each of these 1 mile hexes breaks down to 6 880ft hexes, giving a good tactical scope to the one mile hex. One mile hexes are good also for determining how far someone can see based on the 3 miles to the horizon principle I talked about in my previous hexagon article. If you have 6 one-mile subhexes across a hex you can get large enough hexes to hold hex numbers and more map detail within the hexes should you want it. Granted I could put numbers in there but they would be too small to easily read. Sure I could use the old B/X or Mentzer wilderness symbols, but the other problem was I wanted to use hex numbers to track which subhex I was documenting and the hex numbers would not fit into the subhexes of a hex 12 accross when it was configured to fit on an 8.5 x 11 sheet of paper. When I tried to print out and use a map of a hex 12 subhexes across the hexes were too small to really draw a map in, especially when you were on a 1/2 mile scale. I was aiming to create a one page wilderness hex map that could be used no matter what subhex level you were on. This had the cool effect of fitting in a space of 44x44 battle mat squares. 12 half mile subhexes and those breaking down into 12 1/24th mile subhexes. In that article I was breaking everything down based on the number 12.
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But what I wanted to revisit is the third part of the post about how to break down the 6 mile hex into subhexes. Back in December of 2009 (am I really that infrequent?) I posted about the 6 mile hex being the ideal hex for wilderness adventuring hex crawls over its other frequently appearing cousins the 4 and 5 mile hex.
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