[ASLML] Nhpum Ga map

[Bruce Probst]

On Sat, 1 Nov 2003 14:17:46 +0100, "Mario Nadalini" <rockgheba at libero.it>
wrote:

>I posted this in the last days of the old list, so maybe some people didn't
>get it.

And you got a couple of replies too, all pointing out your error.  But sure,
let's try again.

>Please, take out your Nhpum Ga map (the ORIGINAL, not the VASL one!).
>Take a close look at half hexes like B0, D0... do you see that the hexgrid
>ends around A1, B1, C1...?

So?  Is there terrain in those half-hexes?  Yes.  Are we to assume that
printed terrain doesn't exist if there's no hexgrid enclosing them?
Certainly not.  There's no hexgrid enclosing the half-hexes on *every single
geomorphic board*, and no-one would reasonably suggest that *they* are not
in play.

>Also, there is no center dot in Bo, D0... but
>there is room for it.

There is nothing in the rules to indicate that a hex is only a "real" hex if
it has a centre dot.  The centre dots are there for the convenience of
stringing LOS, that's all.

>Basing on this, and
>basing on how the VASL map is traced (shaded half hexes like B0, no half
>hexes like A17 at all), and on the fact that I've seen two guys playing this
>way, my question is: are those half hexes in play?

You should instead be asking: why did the person who drew the VASL map leave
off those obviously playable half-hexes?  Why did those people I was
watching decide to ignore those obviously playable half-hexes?

> Should we refer only at
>the interior of the depicted hexgrid when talking about "map" in this case?

No.  Why?

>Who draw the VASL map this way, and WHY?!?

I don't know, and I don't know.  Whoever he was, he was in error.

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