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Hex
Hex systems discretize space into evenly neighboring cells that support movement, distance calculation, and territorial reasoning with fewer directional distortions than square grids.
TerritoryDistanceControlUniform adjacency
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Program And Scale
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This topic now keeps program branches and scale lanes visible inside the module, so local reading paths can stay aligned with the same branch-and-scale language used elsewhere.
Spatial Structures
Explain how topology, region graphs, corridors, map abstraction, and scale determine movement and leverage.
Start in Spatial, reduce the map into region graph and corridor logic, test topology under disruption, then return through a spatial design guide.
Cross-Scale · 1Network Scale · 1Regional Scale · 1
World Foundations
Explain what the world is materially built from before politics, balance, or style are discussed.
Start in Worlds, read the anchor framework, open one regional model, validate with a complete study, then finish with a world assembly guide pass.
Regional Scale · 3
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Regional Scale
Use this scale when the region is the main leverage unit for settlement, extraction, governance, or conflict.
Cross-Scale
Use this scale when the strongest explanation depends on several levels staying visible together.
Network Scale
Use this scale when routes, relays, buffers, and linked nodes matter more than territorial bulk.
What It Governs
This topic gives the module a usable operational frame.
Hex design matters when you need clean adjacency, ring-based reach, and zone control without privileging orthogonal lines.
Neighbor Logic
Each hex has a consistent adjacency pattern that simplifies movement and influence.
Range Readability
Rings and radii are more intuitive for area control and reach evaluation.
Terrain Encoding
Hexes still need differentiated cost and permeability, not flat uniformity.
Operational Scale
Hex size determines whether the system feels tactical, regional, or strategic.
Curated Reading
Readings for discretizing strategic geography
These entries show what structure the hex layer needs to preserve from the underlying world.
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Reading Stage
Stage 1: Understand the region before discretizing it
Start with the regional and graph models so the hex layout preserves meaningful edges and centers.
Outcome
The hex map inherits real leverage structure.
Spatial Structures currently leads this stage with 2 supporting entries.
Spatial Structures · 2World Foundations · 1
Regional Scale currently anchors this stage with 2 supporting entries.
Regional Scale · 2Network Scale · 1
model
4 lattice rules
Hex Territory Lattice
A model for preserving corridor structure, territorial reach, and movement cost when a world is discretized into hexes.
SpatialSpatial StructuresRegionalspatial-structuregeographysystems
framework
Featured4 structural layers
Regional Systems Matrix
A planning frame for mapping how geography, settlement, resources, and transit form a region's structural identity.
WorldsWorld FoundationsRegionalgeographyresourcessystems
glossary
Node-edge abstraction
Region Graph
A spatial abstraction that represents regions as connected nodes so adjacency, flow, and chokepoints can be reasoned about systematically.
SpatialSpatial StructuresNetworkspatial-structuresystems
Grounding Route
Ground hex space in route and terrain bias.
Hexes only help when the lattice preserves real asymmetry. Use this route to keep territorial abstraction tied to corridor value and settlement pressure.
Let terrain decide the hex scale and friction field.
Return to world geography when the lattice is flattening passes, coasts, or basin gradients that should dominate movement.
Keep corridor logic visible inside the lattice.
Use shared corridor language so a regular cell layout does not erase the route hierarchy beneath it.
Tie the abstraction to the strategic question.
Open strategic theater thinking when the hex map is really serving territorial timing, reinforcement, or provincial leverage.
model
4 lattice rules
Hex Territory Lattice
A model for preserving corridor structure, territorial reach, and movement cost when a world is discretized into hexes.
SpatialSpatial StructuresRegionalspatial-structuregeographysystems
framework
4 density bands
Terrain Settlement Gradient
A framework for reading how terrain friction and access gradients shape where settlement density can sustainably accumulate.
WorldsWorld FoundationsRegionalgeographycivilizationresources
framework
Featured4 structural layers
Regional Systems Matrix
A planning frame for mapping how geography, settlement, resources, and transit form a region's structural identity.
WorldsWorld FoundationsRegionalgeographyresourcessystems
Design Checklist
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- What does one hex represent in time, distance, and throughput?
- How are difficult terrain and chokepoints expressed inside a regular lattice?
- What strategic decisions are easier to read because of hex geometry?
- Test whether the chosen hex scale hides or preserves key routes.
- Check whether terrain penalties create meaningful path choice.
- Make control zones and reinforcement distance legible at a glance.
- Hex scale too coarse for the intended decisions.
- Regular cells that erase real corridor and chokepoint structure.
- Movement rules that ignore terrain and reduce the map to open space.
Cross-model Handoff
Bridge hex logic to neighboring spatial choices
Hex is one representation layer among several; it should preserve deeper world and system structure.
Representation
Maps
Open maps when the challenge is choosing the right visual abstraction level.
Alternative latticeGrid
Compare against grid logic when orthogonal constraints may serve the design better.
Strategic useSLG Design
Open SLG when hex space is serving macro territory and timing play.
Source terrainGeography Model
Return to geography when the discretization is losing the original corridor logic.
Hex matters because regular discretization is only valuable when it preserves the map's important asymmetries while making distance and control easier to read.