Jokes aside, there's one thing that nobody seems to consider when discussing hexes: unless the terrain is completely flat and featureless (or you're on an highway), the actual travel distance between the centres of two adjacent 6-mile hexes isn't 6 miles, it's most probably much more, I'd say between 9 and 12 miles on most terrains.
I have travelled by bicycle in pre-Google-maps era, and our daily mileage ended up being almost 1.5 times what we estimated by measuring on the maps, even on roads.
While I prefer the European swallow you do have a great point, think about how much walking time can be saved saved with even a 150' bridge. Its generally spanning either a river that's not trivial to forge or some kind of ravine, maybe even a combo of the two.
And that's why I always travel by pigeon.
ReplyDeleteJokes aside, there's one thing that nobody seems to consider when discussing hexes: unless the terrain is completely flat and featureless (or you're on an highway), the actual travel distance between the centres of two adjacent 6-mile hexes isn't 6 miles, it's most probably much more, I'd say between 9 and 12 miles on most terrains.
I have travelled by bicycle in pre-Google-maps era, and our daily mileage ended up being almost 1.5 times what we estimated by measuring on the maps, even on roads.
While I prefer the European swallow you do have a great point, think about how much walking time can be saved saved with even a 150' bridge. Its generally spanning either a river that's not trivial to forge or some kind of ravine, maybe even a combo of the two.
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