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What scale for the Fire Brigade '43 project? 5km/hex or 2.5/hex? I also made preparations to basically recreate the game Fire Brigade from Panther Games that actually covered the 2nd Battle of Kiev!
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Hah! Seems like a popular battle. [:)]

I am working with 5 km. I did a campaign disk for HPS Tigers on the Prowl focusing on Kampfgruppe Peiper back in the mid-1990's and still have my original research and a Soviet paper map I purchased used to make the maps. Plus Jack Radey did the boardgame "Bold Stroke" published by Spearhead games in the late 90s - lots of good OOB data there along with Sharp, Nafsinger and usual websites...

But there's no point in doing this if you or Lobster are already on it.
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Barbarossa at 2.5km, regiment/battalion/company.
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What scale for the Fire Brigade '43 project? 5km/hex or 2.5/hex? I also made preparations to basically recreate the game Fire Brigade from Panther Games that actually covered the 2nd Battle of Kiev!
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Hah! Seems like a popular battle. [:)]

I am working with 5 km. I did a campaign disk for HPS Tigers on the Prowl focusing on Kampfgruppe Peiper back in the mid-1990's and still have my original research and a Soviet paper map I purchased used to make the maps. Plus Jack Radey did the boardgame "Bold Stroke" published by Spearhead games in the late 90s - lots of good OOB data there along with Sharp, Nafsinger and usual websites...

But there's no point in doing this if you or Lobster are already on it.
Nick

if you still got the map 5km/hex in TOAW III or IV format, mind if I could use it (mentioning of course that you provided it!)?

Drop me a line,

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EDIT: Solved problem myself [:)]
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sPzAbt653 turned me on to Hexthingy a program that uses Google Earth Pro (down-loadable) to create hex grid overlays!

Works fairly well.

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Have you managed to get the Hexthingy 1.2 working on the latest Google Earth Pro (I've got v7.3.1.4507 32-bit)?

I am having no luck with it, seems all I can get done is a huge grid that goes around the globe, instead of the 10x10km 1km hex test thing I am trying.

Any tutorials out there for it?
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Please help .
I tried to create hex grid overlay using programs Hexthingy and ODD ,but nothing happened.I ask colleagues to help -to put working versions of the programs in Detail and explain their work.
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Please help .
I tried to create hex grid overlay using programs Hexthingy and ODD ,but nothing happened.I ask colleagues to help -to put working versions of the programs in Detail and explain their work.

ODD: Convert the map to .bmp format. Open ODD/Map Tool. Click Import. Select .bmp map file from directory. Click on scaling tool bar button (the little hex icon at the top).

Now go to the bottom and click Set Scale. Move mouse cursor to map where it will turn into a cross hair. Go to a place where you know the distance between two points. Click on first point and hold down the mouse button. Move to second point and release the mouse button. In the first box to the right of Set Scale a number appears. It is the number of pixels between the two points. In the box to the right on that enter the number of kilometers between the two points. So now the two boxes should say something like 315 pixels = 10 kilometers.

Now go to the box that says 0__._ and enter your map scale. Say you want a 10km per hex map so that should say 010.0 for that scale. Click Draw Grid. So now the grid is made.

Go to top and click Export. Give the map a name at the save window. Click save. Wait a minute so it writes to file and you are done.
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Have you managed to get the Hexthingy 1.2 working on the latest Google Earth Pro
I missed this when you posted it, but Hexthingy stopped working with later versions of Google long ago. I use the version pictured below. If you can't find it, I can probably get it to you. Note that when I opened it to get this screen shot, I got a message that this version of Google Earth will stop working soon [:(] Typical.

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Dude, you wrote the original, lol. Here is my version of your work, edited to my perceptions and understandings.
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As you get old the first thing to go is the memory. I forget what comes after that. [:D]
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Have you managed to get the Hexthingy 1.2 working on the latest Google Earth Pro
I missed this when you posted it, but Hexthingy stopped working with later versions of Google long ago. I use the version pictured below. If you can't find it, I can probably get it to you. Note that when I opened it to get this screen shot, I got a message that this version of Google Earth will stop working soon [:(] Typical.

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Thanks, I'd appreciate having a chance to try this out! Where can I find it, do you know?
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I just googled 'google earth 6.2.2.6613' and several dl sites are found. I don't know which if any to recommend.

I searched around and don't seem to have the setup file saved as I do for several other older programs. Maybe I hid it somewhere safe, which means I will never find it now!
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Thanks! [:)]
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Oh by the way, I finally got around to making the shirts that you helped me with ! [&o]

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That shows me that if any data



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That shows me that if any data

I loaded a map and put in the exact numbers you did and had no problem producing a grid.









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How is this setting set ? Why I have he always 0x0

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Oh by the way, I finally got around to making the shirts that you helped me with ! [&o]

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They do look so familiar... the 'wrecks'... where did I see them again?! *thinking*

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How is this setting set ? Why I have he always 0x0

Try it without even loading a map. Put in the numbers that you put in and it will make a little hex map in the upper left corner. But don't fill in the startingX startingY. Let it do that by itself.



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They do look so familiar... the 'wrecks'... where did I see them again?! *thinking*
Very Observant Klink ! Us old fellows will recognize them from Panzer Blitz/Leader, the kiddies will know them from Campaign Series Middle East [which Crossroads and Berto work on, and a Vietnam series is coming, to be followed by East Front/West Front].
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