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Blood bowl square
Posted: Wed Jul 18, 2007 1:06 pm
by mrbrownesquire
Can somebody confirm for me that each square on a BB pitch is 29mm by 29mm
Posted: Wed Jul 18, 2007 2:24 pm
by Rab
They're not.
There was a fair bit of discussion a while back bemoaning this, with most custom board makers deciding to go with 29mm anyway, I think.
Posted: Wed Jul 18, 2007 2:32 pm
by Snew
What he means is that every square is different sized from one area of the board to the other.
~29mm is average.
Posted: Wed Jul 18, 2007 6:49 pm
by Darkson
I thought Deathwing made the average 28.6mm?
Posted: Wed Jul 18, 2007 7:50 pm
by Duke Jan
He personally shaved 0.4 mm off every square on each BB board in existence? On average that is...
Posted: Wed Jul 18, 2007 8:57 pm
by Snew
That's what happened huh? I wondered where my beer went.
Posted: Wed Jul 18, 2007 10:17 pm
by Deathwing
Darkson wrote:I thought Deathwing made the average 28.6mm?
Just the one decimal point mate? Lol.... 29.33 wide by 29.07 long.
On average.
Ish.
Many moons ago, Deathwing wrote:"Again, I'd use the overall board size and divide. Measuring one square is not the way to go IMO, cumulative error and all that.
Board length is somewhere close to 756mm..divide that by 26 and it gives you 29.07.
Do 28mm squares and 28*26 gives you 728...a 28mm difference. Or equivalent to a square shorter in overall length. Use 30 and you'll be 24mm or equivalent to most of a square longer.
Width is 440mm. Divide that by 15 and you get 29.33. If you use 29mm squares you'll get a total width of 435..a difference of 5mm which is perfectly fine.
Of course it all depends how anal you want to be in replicating the original size, but I'd go about in by starting with a 752 x 435 rectangle and mark off the squares at 29mm. HTH. "
Posted: Wed Jul 18, 2007 10:53 pm
by Darkson
See, the ex-president had to much time on his hands during his presidency.
Posted: Thu Jul 19, 2007 2:53 am
by GalakStarscraper
If you do 29x29 you are close enough ... not perfect ... but close enough.
Galak
Posted: Thu Jul 19, 2007 8:41 am
by fen
This thread is considerably less cool than I thought it would be from the thread title.
Posted: Thu Jul 19, 2007 10:03 am
by Duke Jan
You don't consider the average square to be cool?
Posted: Thu Jul 19, 2007 12:20 pm
by Lahatiel
Duke Jan wrote:You don't consider the average square to be cool?
Didn't Huey Lewis & the News teach us all that it's hip to be square?
Posted: Thu Jul 19, 2007 12:23 pm
by Xtreme
No one that listens to Huey Lewis is 'hip'.
Posted: Thu Jul 19, 2007 12:29 pm
by pelle
Xtreme wrote:No one that listens to Huey Lewis is 'hip'.
But they are 'square'
Posted: Thu Jul 19, 2007 1:08 pm
by mattgslater
"Hip" is like "classy." There are certain words that if you use them, they don't describe you.