We had a thread at Matrix Games, about 15 years ago, while they were porting World in Flames. The topic was spherical projections.
I contributed by covering Fuller's Dymaxion map with hexes at 100 miles (160 km) per hex. It keeps all the land masses intact, no breaks, with minimal distortion, basically a contiguous map of the Earth.
Of course, Fuller would have vehemently opposed using his map for a wargame.
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