The Competition & Teaser Thread

[Strela]

Hello David:

Sounds interesting. Looks like it would take 3 actions (keystrokes/clicks) to move around. The way I mentioned just involves dragging the map. So if you wanted to see 5 more rows on the RHS of the screen you would just pull the map to the left a little and you could do this w/o changing zoom level.

How do you zoom? Is it with the mouse wheel?

Curious how many hexes approx. for say a small map?

In a more general sense I think the Tiller games have an old fashioned interface. It would be nice to see it change with this series. (I do realize the importance of the military content in these games.)

Thanks,

Gerry

Gerry,

Zoom is either via the mouse wheel or numbers 1, 2 or 3.

You do have Auto scroll on don't you (under settings)? With that on you just move your mouse towards the border you want and the map moves? This essentially shifts the map as you like. The more extreme the movement the quicker the scroll.


As far as map sizes. They vary. Here are some examples.

This is the Getting Started scenarios (closest zoom level);





This is probably the smallest scenario in the game (closest zoom level);





Here is one of the largest scenarios in total area. This is at the maximum zoom out and this is 75% of the scenario's map. There is a further 25% off the bottom of the screen capture as evident in the second shot from the jump map;







David