HexGear

By Kjeld

Battle for hex-space in this interplanetary race for the gallaxy!

Different continents are marked by height and texture. Note: Arrakis (brown, lower-right) is a discontiguous continent, broken by Arrakeen (teal) in the middle.

Pirate space begins the game as empty neutral territories, and while it is helpful or in some cases necessary to traverse this dangerous territory, each one you control is worth -1, and an additional -1 for each connected pair!

The Five Foundations each begin the game with 7 neutrals, but each may attack the others and the surrounding hex-space (any hexes that are within one hex-diameter of distance). In addition, foundations are worth +2 each, and another +2 for each pair you control.

Territories around the edges of empty space have vision by line of sight (i.e. they can't see over an intervening hex) across the void. Foundations have vision of all hexes bordering their areas of empty space.

Miscellaneous:

Card scale: 4,6,8,...50,55,60...

Medium fog default

Five fortifies, to any connecting territory

Return to unit placement from attack

Elimination bonus = 10

1 unit for every 5 territories controlled

HexGear

The Space Pirates

By Kjeld

Battle for hex-space in this interplanetary race for the gallaxy!

Different continents are marked by height, color and texture. Note: Arrakis (brown, lower-right) is a discontiguous continent, broken by Arrakeen (teal) in the middle.

In the Space Pirates scenario, pirate spaces have increased 5-fold, and cover much of the map. They still start off empty and neutral, and are each worth -1 individually. However, if you manage to clamp down on any whole, contiguous area of pirate space, it is worth a positive 2(N-2) bonus, where N is the number of contiguous pirate space territories in that area (anything less than 0 is rounded up to 0). So, for example:

1 space area = -1 * 1 + 0 = -1

2 space area = -1 * 2 + 0 = -2

3 space area = -1 * 3 + 2(3-2) = -1

4 space area = -1 * 4 + 2(4-2) = 0

5 space area = -1 * 5 + 2(5-2) = 1

6 space area = -1 * 6 + 2(6-2) = 2

etc.

The Five Foundations each begin the game with 7 neutrals, but each may attack the others and the surrounding hex-space. In addition, they're worth +2 each, and another +2 for each pair you control.

Miscellaneous:

Card scale: 4,6,8,...50,55,60...

Medium fog default

Five fortifies, to any connecting territory

Return to unit placement from attack

Elimination bonus = 10

1 unit for every 5 territories controlled