FWIW, I am a square-grid fanatic for tabletop games. Manmade structures just don't fit on a hex grid and 1.5 is a "close enough" approximation to sqrt(2) that

FWIW, I am a square-grid fanatic for tabletop games. Manmade structures just don't fit on a hex grid and 1.5 is a "close enough" approximation to sqrt(2) that you have 8 degrees of freedom instead of a mere 6.