Universal Space Combat Battlemap - Whirlpool Galaxy

If you're playing a space combat miniatures game, you need a surface to track your movement. This PDF presents a printable map, with a background generated from satellite imagery. Printing and assembling all 42 pages creates a contiguous map large enough to cover a table of up to 72" x 48". If your play space is a little bit smaller, it's easy to just print and assemble a smaller version.

The file also uses Adobe Acrobat layers so that it may be printed with 1" hexes, 1.5" hexes, or 2" squares, making it useful for a variety of scales and rule systems. (Just make sure to turn off the layers you don't want.) Hex dimensions are measured flat-side to flat side. Alternatively, it may be printed without any grid overlay for a huge poster map.

Please be forwarned that printing this document uses a substantial amount of ink—even with a brightly colored galaxy, there's a lot of black in space.