Using Miniatures and using a grid.

[dph]

Hi guys

I'm a long time D6 Star Wars GM who wants to use miniatures to play out both character & starship combat in my game (having good collections of both available!) and I was hoping to adapt the D6 'measure the distance' system to a 'grid' of some kind.

A 'hex' map works great for movement and shooting but...

How would grenade deviation work, especially tracing the grenades path?

In general practice, (on the average sized game table) a hex or square might need to represent 2 meters or Space Units (instead of 1:1). If so, is there a clean way to calculate odd weapons ranges and movement characteristics?

What about facing in starship combat?
Can you adapt 4 shield arcs to a hex of 6 sides so that it is clear which arc an attacking ship is firing on?

What's a good rule of thumb for the TN or movement cost of rotating a ship on the spot of a hex or grid square?


Whilst these are not all the issues and I could obviously rely on GM's judgment, I'm hoping that with all the gaming groups out there; a few of you have figured out good ways to implement miniatures and/or use them with a hex or square grid map.

Thanks all

[Dan Solo]

I don't have enough experience in using hex maps to help you with most of your problems (I tend not to use grids in my games), I can say that grenade scatter is dead easy with a hex map: just take a d6, and assign each direction from the hex a number from 1 to 6. Roll the d6, and the number that comes up is the direction the grenade goes!

[Raven Redstar]

My first piece of advice is to leave the minis alone... I can see it being useful for space combat, but, more often than not, it focuses player's attention on something other than the game. Instead of having a nice role playing session, you get a board game.

If you must...

For grenades, see about getting some little glass counters, they're pretty cheap, and you can buy them at most CCG (Collectible card game) shops. Then, you just mark where the grenade works. Grenade deviation chart is in the main book, so depending on which direction the nade is being thrown, you face the table, roll, and then figure out how much the roll was missed by to find out how short, or overthrown, or whatever.

For shield hexes, I'd just carry a dry erase marker, and mark which arcs the shield is on, then just sort of eyeball it for rough, Or you can mark sides with F,Rr,L,R (Front, Rear, Left, Right)

Hope this helps... please be careful with this...

[Draylo Star]

See I think we are going to try the maps (we are DND players) so will will give it a try every square=2 meters

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