Guys I've had this idea for a while brewing in my cranium.

Picture for a moment a Sid Meier's Civ 6 with no grid at all. No hexes. AND. And. No squares. I know. Weird right?

Ok so what does this mean you ask rightly! Well the units have ranges. Melee units like warriors have almost no range but they at least have a "bubble" around them in which they can attack or defend or block. And you can see that bubble glowing outwards a bit - even on enemy units - as you get close or when you're figuring out with your mouse where to drop your scout.

Also: There would have to be 2 phases to each turn.

Phase 1)  move units 

Phase 2)  (if any units are in attack range) Attack or choose to not attack

In this way a scout could breeze past a warrior if the warrior was weak and not able to risk an attack that turn.

I got the idea playing some old Sid Meier's railroads. And how slick it was to be building the road / track / whatever exactly where and how I wanted it, and caring about whether to build a tunnel through a mountain or go around it. And I thought, damn I'd love to have some musketmen trolling along these hills here with some new fangled artillery waiting down below to back them up. I secretly want them to take the Sid Meier's railroads engine and revamp it. You are free to send out your units exactly how you wish...not confined by a grid.

Please share thoughts, criticism. And thanks for posting the original post!

(If you hit Ctrl+G out of nostalgia you would see the CITY RANGES flash for a second, in other words the big bubbles around the cities identifying how close the nearest neighboring town could be.)

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