Take the tour ×  Did anyone play pure miniature play in
Battletech? i.e. Off hex maps? Was it particularly difficult?
share|improve this question Hmm, I've never really thought about
doing this but now that you mention it I am intrigued. Would
love to hear about this from anyone who's done it. –  Alfred
Bonnabel Aug 19 '10 at 20:30 add comment  migrated from
rpg.stackexchange.com Feb 4 '11 at 0:03   6 Answers  It's pretty
easy. I have played a number of these.  If you use Heavy Metal
Pro, you can pick a scale and choose to print all of the ranges
and movement speeds in inches, instead of hexes. This makes it
incredibly easy. Also, it gets rid of arguments about line-of-
sight. The only things you need to play are pencil and record
sheet, dice, and enough tape measures to go around.  If you
don't use HMP, you will have to do some simple multiplication.
(Ex: SRMs range of 3/6/9 becomes 9"/18"/27" in a 3-inch scale.
Multiply everything by 3.) You can do the math ahead of time,
and write it on your sheet, to make