Visual scale: ships vs. range

[Commissar]

Hey, all. I've been debating about whether to pick up a starter of this when it comes out.

One question I have is this: it looks like the capital ships are almost 2 map spaces long. However, max range on a ship's guns appears to be 3 spaces. So 2 battleships dueling at max range will only be 1.5 ship lengths from one another.

Is that right? Because it will look like they're practically parked next to each other.

[Muenchausen]

They brought this question up in anither thread. I can't remeber which one. The answer was the ship pictures were enlarged overlays and they are out of scale to the maps. i think they said a battleship will fit inside a grid.

[Commissar]

They brought this question up in anither thread. I can't remeber which one. The answer was the ship pictures were enlarged overlays and they are out of scale to the maps. i think they said a battleship will fit inside a grid.

Hmm. Thanks for the reply.

If a battleship is 6" long and will fit inside a grid, then how many grids long will the map be? If it is a 5' map, that would only be 10 grids.

[MarcusAurelius]

Hmm. Thanks for the reply.

If a battleship is 6" long and will fit inside a grid, then how many grids long will the map be? If it is a 5' map, that would only be 10 grids.

We don't know yet. Lead designer Richard Baker has said that each map sector is about 5 inches. And the first Opening Salvo states that you can create maps up to 30" x 40".

If that's correct, it would seem that the battle map would contain approximately 48 sectors (6 x 8). You could have up to 24 units lined up along the top and bottom two rows at the start of a battle with 4 open rows between.

Hard to say for sure until we see an actual map. It may also be possible to use more than one starter to create even bigger maps.