[For those who aren't reading this with NetScape, I'll try and describe the things. -- arcangel@io.com]

There's a General Map, depicting a river (the San Remo River) running from nearly the upper right corner of the map to the middle of the bottom, the Pacific Ocean, in a curve that goes through the center of the map. It's about three inches long (six miles) from Off-The-Map to the Ocean. At the river-mouth, the Marine O.P. is on the left, and San Remo is on the right, directly across from each other. The Mayan Ruins are about an inch (2 miles) from Off-The-Map, and a little over 2 inches (4 miles) from the river-mouth. Everything else on the map is Jungle. North is straight up.

The Combat Map is harder to describe. One hex equals 1 yard. It's about 6 inches (61 itty-bitty hexes) long, and 4-5 inches (47 staggered itty-bitty hexes) high. North is to the right, and an arrow labled "To River" points at the upper right corner (North by north-west, I think?).

There is a cleared square (about 4-5 inches (47 staggered hexes) high, and 4 inches (37 hexes) long) surrounded by jungle -- the banditos' camp. A 300 yard Airstrip goes Off-The-Map downwards (east); the opening there is 17 hexes wide. Slightly to the left of center, there's an airplane (9 hexes long, wingspan of 9), and above and a touch to the right of that (4 hexes from the plane's tail), there's a Machine Gun nest (a rough circle, 4 hex diameter).

The plane's tail is 16 hexes from the top of the map (west jungle); it "faces" east, towards the Airstrip, so its left (south) wing is 7 hexes from jungle, its right (north) wing is 21 hexes from jungle, and its nose points into the Airstrip -- the closest jungle is 20 hexes down and 4 to the right. The wings are located 6 hexes down from the tail (the tail-fins are depicted as being a rounded-edge triangle with a 3-hex span at the widest point).

A guard walks clockwise around the MG post and airplane, on a 31 by 17 hex oval route that takes him past all the structures. He's indicated by a B at the top of the oval (4 hexes from the western jungle). He comes within a hex of the MG post, and 3 from the plane's south-most wingtip.

#1: The top-most structure is a U-shaped building, with the opening pointing down (east); it's about 5 hexes wide, and 5 long, with the walls included and being about a hex thick (so it's 3 x 3 inside). Its west side is to the jungle, about three hexes away; its north side is about 12 hexes from the jungle. The guard's walk comes within a hex or two from the left side of the building's "front" -- the door into it is hex 3 of the four that comprise that wall. (--^-). This building holds 5 Fuel Barrels, each taking up about a hex's worth of space inside.

#2: The next structure is some rubble -- about 2 x 2 hexes; its west side is 7 hexes from the jungle, and its north side is 6 hexes from the jungle.

#3: Some more rubble is about even with it (west face: 8 from thick jungle and 5 from a protruding spur; north face: 2 from jungle.

#4: Then there's another building, this time in an irregular shape -- the top (west) wall is three hexes long, and 6 from the north jungle (it intersects with the second bit of rubble [#3] at 3 hexes) at the closest point; its 9 hexes from the west jungle. The south-facing (left) wall is 6 hexes long. The east-facing wall is 5.5 hexes long with the opening thus: (--^---) (The left-most "-" is a half-hex); the north-most (right) corner is 5 hexes from the jungle, and the north-facing wall is a slant 6 hexes long.

The guard comes within 6 hexes of this building's [#4] south wall.

#5: a large piece of rubble, about 3 x 3, west-facing being 16 from the jungle (3 from a protruding bit about a hex wide), and north-facing being a hex from the jungle.

#6: A rectangular building, 6 high and 7 wide. The corner opening faces south-east (down), thus: (^^-----). The west-facing wall is 17 hexes from jungle, and the north-facing wall is 9 away. Just a hex away is some more rubble [#7]. The guard comes within a half-yard of this building's south wall, and stays at about that distance for the whole length of that wall; he comes within a hex of two of the opening at the corner (that's where he's starting to curve in again).

#7: small piece of rubble -- a hex tall, and three wide. The closest point to the jungle is 4 hexes to the north; the west side is 21 from jungle, and the east side is 18.

#8: the north-most wall of this annoyingly-hard-to-describe building is nearly even with the north-most wall of the third building [#6]. I'll describe it as two buildings...

#8.a: This is a rectangular building, 5.5 hexes long (north-south) and 7 tall (east-west). Its north-facing wall is 8 from the jungle; its west-facing (top) wall is 28 hexes from the jungle; its east-facing wall is 6 from jungle. It has an opening in it facing south, thus: (-^----!). At the "!" point, it joins into the top corner of its companion-building [#8.b]. About three hexes from its north-east corner, there's another bit of rubble [#9]. The guard comes within 4 hexes of the opening.

#8.b: a small rectangular building, connected at its north-west corner to #8.a, 3.5 hexes long and 5 tall. The door faces west, thusly: (--^!), where "!" is the connection-wall to #8.a. The east-most wall is a scant hex of two from the jungle (depending on the slant of the jungle there; the north-most wall is 13 from the jungle (though it runs into rubble [#9] sooner, at 8.5 hexes. The guard comes within 4 hexes of the south-most corner, and about 5 from its door.

#9 is more rubble, about 2 x 2 in a slanted oval that covers 4 complete hexes. Its north-most face is 3 from the jungle, and its east-most face is also 3 hexes from jungle. (Its west-most face is 36 hexes from jungle.)


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