board full o' hexes

["jdroscha" <jdroscha@...>]

Greetings All,

   Since the piecepack is public domain, I encourage anyone 
interested in modifying it or expanding it to do so.  A couple 
considerations of interest:
1) original piecepack won't scare or confuse my granny
2) original piecepack uses standard parts and costs half as much as 
an Icehouse set
   That doesn't mean it shouldn't evolve or have additions... of 
course it should, which is one of the reasons I made it public 
domain.  But I thought I'd interject with a couple facets many 
designers might overlook.

   Anyway, hexes were considered during the original design and 
chucked because they are not needed... make yourself some rows of 
tiles (face-up probably), then take every other row and push it to 
the right by half a tile.  You get essentially the same thing as 
hexes.  This is a little trick I picked up from studying old wargames.

Hex away!
James