Standard and Fort board formats

Create custom maps compatible with Advanced Squad Leader

HexDraw 2 provides blank Standard and Fort templates for Advanced Squad Leader. After choosing a format, you can begin an original ASL map with its board geometry and numbering already prepared.

HexDraw 2 editor showing an original ASL-compatible tactical map with roads, buildings, woods, water, and hills — An original ASL-compatible map in HexDraw 2, combining terrain, roads, buildings, and numbered hexes.

Ready to draw

What the blank templates preconfigure

The Standard and Fort presets establish the dimensions, flat-top grid, geomorphic structure, map edges, and numbering expected by their respective board formats. Every setting remains editable when an original project needs to depart from the preset.

Standard blank board template
Fort blank board template
Predefined dimensions and grid pitch
Geomorphic edges and numbering

Tactical map building

Build terrain and features around the hex grid

Paint connected terrain and elevation, draw roads and hexside features, place buildings, labels, and markers, and inspect the numbered board as you work. VASL board package export is supported without LOS data.

Terrain, hills, water, and orchards
Road and hexside geometry
Reusable building artwork
Editable labels and markers

ASL-compatible HexDraw map detail with orchards, gullies, shellholes, wall, hedge, cliff, row-house hexsides, and varied buildings — Tactical terrain, varied buildings, and several editable hexside treatments shown together on an original map.

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