Further thoughts on hex dominion

* If there's a fixed deck size, it doesn't necessarily have to be a deck of cards. It could be some completely different mechanic, eg. roll five dice and have a chart for which dice can be spent for which abilities. Eg. 1-5 = short march, 6-10 = quick march, divisible by four = frontal attack, etc, etc.

* Currently there are three basic attacks, each of which can either mutually annhilate with an enemy army, or do something specific (destroy an enemy army on any friendly hex, destroy an enemy army between two friendly armies, or play a card on an opponent's turn). However, the alternate modes are a bit uninspiring: they're interesting when they come up, but they're too rarely relevant. Ideally there'd attacks a bit more like hillside charge (destroy an adjacent enemy army if you're on a mountain) which make the terrain matter. Any suggestions?

* Instead of scoring for all territory, which might be fiddly to count, how about having six scoring hexes (gold mines, monuments, cities, or something), and at the end of each turn, gain one point for each you control? And game ends at some fixed number of points.

Annoying things: GUI find dialogs whose "recent searches" list doesn't include search options

Seriously. If you accept that someone may want to search for a regex, or a whole word, or just for plain text, what is the chance that they will want to search for the same string as BOTH? Seriously, does that ever happen? If I type a regex, I almost always want to search for something it matches! I pretty much NEVER search for a plain text string and then say "I changed my mind, I also want to search for something that matches that as a regex".

So if you choose a "most recent search" from a dropdown list, the search options should be set to what they were for THAT string, not for whatever string you used most recently.

OK, this is partly my fault for using GUI find dialogues in the first place, but I don't see why, if they exist, they can't do the logical thing, rather than requiring everyone to fiddle with the search options before they work. (For that matter, could there be a button for "search for this string as a regex and as plain text, and highlight the one that works". That's also conceptually wrong, but at least it would be helpful! :))