What if the Manual was right (about scale)?

[el cid again]

The WITP manual says the map is scaled in nautical miles.

The ships of WITP pretend the map is scaled in nautical miles. Speeds are in knots. Ranges are in nautical miles. We rationalize this, BUT IF we did it the other way

we would have more on the map!

About 15 % more.

The map is 148 hexes square - Cobra COUNTED them! And Andrew published this already - I just asked is that right? Seems odd - one would expect 144. But it is 148. OK - at 60 statute miles per hex that is 8880 statute miles on a side. This is almost exactly the distance from Kerachi to Oahu - 8834 measured on a globe. The diagonal distance (corner to corner) of our map should be 12,558 statute miles.

IF we did the hexes as the book say, we would have about 15% MORE on the map. That is, 15% more on each side - corresponding to 32.25% MORE area on the map.

FYI.

Note this is a vast map area. It is MOST of the way around the globe from Aden to Panama - it is SHORTER NOT to go this distance on the map!
Go "backwards" and you have significantly less distance to move! No easy way to make this map this big without problems somewhere.

[Wallymanowar]

ORIGINAL: el cid again

The map is 148 hexes square - Cobra COUNTED them!

I hope he really didn't sit down and physically count them because you can tell the size of the map by looking at the coordinates for the hex in the bottom right of the map (148,148) - this is the old SPI method of numbering the hexes which gives the coordinates as (X,Y) where X= the number of rows from left to right and Y= the number of columns from the top to the bottom. Avalon Hill used a different method for giving coordinates for the hexes - which I can't recall just at the moment.