Sugestion for official hill notaion

[NegativeZer0]

Wouldn't a X,Y grid notation work out much better than what was used here : http://www.boardgamegeek.com/article/2308969

Ex:

Hill would be 0,0
Your base would be 0,-1
Their base would be 0,1
Left of hill would be -1,0
Right of hill would be 1,0

Then just put a Letter for each unit
Air - Air Strike
A - Artillery
H - Heavy Weapons
I - Infantry
P - Paratroopers
S - Special Forces
T - Tank

So for example
Turn 1 (opponent goes first)
P (0,1)  Paratrooper is played in opponents home base
Turn 1
A (0,-1) [P (0,1)]  Artillary is played in home base killing opponents paratroopers in his home base
S (-1,0) Special forces are played to the left of the hill

Okay now I know Chad is coming from the chess world and that's why he fell back on a similar method for notation but I think this is much more clear and more concise.

P.S. If any other major updates are done to the computer program a notation system would be a great addition and using this method should be rather simple. (Yes I know how to program so I do have an idea what I'm talking about)

[Chad_YMG]

Would your opponent use exactly the same coordinates?  (That is, if the Green player calls his base 0,-1 does the Blue player call the Green base 0,-1 or 0,1?)

One of the reasons that Chess has moved from descriptive to algebraic notation is that it's much simpler when everyone is using the same name for each square.

[NegativeZer0]

Well the way i see it is it would be the same with the player going first having the base in the positive half of the grid.
And I used to play tournament chess too.  I just don't see that form of notation working well for this.

[Bob Gray]

When I was playtesting the online version (1.3) for Andrew I used the following notation to record games:

   A B C D E F G H I
9 * * * * * * * * *
8 * * * * * * * * *
7 * * * * * * * * *
6 * * * * # * * * *
5 * * * * + * * * *
4 * * * * # * * * *
3 * * * * * * * * *
2 * * * * * * * * *
1 * * * * * * * * *

Hill 218 is E5.
Player One's base is E4.
The Second Player's base is E6.

The units are denoted in lower case:

a - Artillery
h - Heavy Weapons
i - Infantry
p- Paratroopers
s- Special Forces
t - Tank
k - Air Strike

An attack is denoted by recording the target's location in parentheses.

Example:

Turn One
P1 - iE4
P2 - aE6(E4), iF6

Turn Two
P1 - k(E6), aE4(F6)
P2 - hE6, iD6