How to best map out space for a BG (infinite, shminfinite!)

Is this what you're thinking of?

Let me know if you want a PDF of this or whatever.

Seo
Yeah, I know, I should be playing Wallenstein insteado of doing this. ;)

Do you think that it is possible to make a convenient duel between 2 space ship in a slice of space like in the example above?

It will mean that at the end of the turn, you will have to move back the ships in the middle of the map to make sure they do not move outside the map on the next turn.

For only 2 ships, it might not be so bad, but if you also have asteroid and missiles to move it might get annoying to play.

What I tought was to use a 2 hex radius circle where you place the ship in order to keep track of the relative position and facing. The defender is in the middle and the attacker is somewhere around. A contested dice roll would determine the position and the facing of the ship according to the piloting skills of the pilot and the ship stats.

Only the distance would be missing. But you could at least know which weapon can fire the ship according to the firing arc.

From directly overhead, at least. ;)

Yeah, it was more than I thought elegant too. But was what I thought you thought. Actually, I had two simplier variations based on your text description, maybe the middle one is what you where thinking about (rotate it 90º for a better match of your description, but it's thirds of hexes instead of half-hexes):

I really like the idea behind design B. So much that I worked it a bit and evolved into thist tiles, probably the most elegant solution for this challenge. The tiles are now made of one hexagon and five pentagon, but the pentagons neghbour six cells each, so this tiles are topologically identical to the irregular one-hex-surrounded-by-hexes tiles, but offer an easier to cut hexagonal contour.

I used CorelDRAW to design the hexes, then exported to Photoshop to prepare the posted images.

Saludos,

Seo

Fantastic solution, seo.

@Ska_baron
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