While I don't really care either way, those nation borders look funky as hell.

Hex, square, I really don't care (hey, that rhymes...)....... from a purely aesthetic standpoint I always assosciate hexes with a sci-fi setting and squares with historical...... but I understand there are also mathematical arguments for both...... in the end it's likely academic as we've gone pretty far to have to change everything up.......

Hexes

I prefer hexes myself.  It adds an organic feeling to the map.  If you were to remove the grid overlay from those screen shots, you would not be able to tell that it was a tileset.

That being said, I am perfectly happy with Elemental being square tiles.

Hexes are nice, but the inability to form right angles is sort of angering. It's a major strategic weakness when every other unit in a square or line formation is exposed to x3 the contact area of a neighbouring unit. This is mostly why I prefer squares. A few table top games allow units to occupy half-hexes but I've never seen this in a computer game.

EDIT: That's a pretty looking game... what game is that?

hexs are nice, but they can also be very irritating. TBH, i prefer squares in TBS. Hexs are good for tactical combat where the extra exposure is often very handy. For big empire builders, tiles are nicer even if your land does look a bit blocky.

1 unit per tile? thats gonna fail hard. How do we put multiple units on a city? can we mass large numbers of forces anywhere without taking 10 turns to get them all across a border? 1 unit per tile in a civ game would be a disaster.

I hate Hexes.  I know I'm in a minority on this.

Consider this: It takes just as many turns to take the red path as the white path.  The closest distance between two points should be a straight line.  With Hexes, that's not necessarily the case.  

I know squares have their own issues too but that particular issue with hexes always drives me crazy.

There are certainly some tactical benefits to hexes and the debate between hexes and square tiles will continue unabated but I don't like them personally. 

And yes, to repeat, I know most people disagree with me. It's a personal preference.

Frogboy Elemental 2 should go with Octogons. [e digicons](\(\[/e]

I have no pro-hex or pro-grid preference, but isn't this just as much of an issue with square grids?  With diagonal moves, you can take some significant detours from a straight line and still only use the same number of moves to arrive at the same destination.

If I want to go from A to B on a square-based map, I shouldn't go in a straight line.  I should use the diagonal moves to zig zag my way there so I can reveal as much terrain as possible.  The optimal path in a square-based map is not a straight line if you want to scout while you go.

egads, this post went boom!

In soviet russia, hexes move on you.