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 - [x] Render the two channels per hex over one board, from the scenario
       fixtures, with no MegaMek and no match. Encode total as lightness and the
-      offence-to-defence ratio as hue: an additive blend of two colours puts
+      offence-to-defence balance as hue: an additive blend of two colours puts
       "high in both" and "middling in both" on the lightness axis alone, which
-      is the one the eye compares worst
+      is the one the eye compares worst. **Both axes are ranks**, pooled per
+      channel across a board's three regimes - see below
 - [x] **The same board at three power-mean exponents**, since that is the
       argument for the operator existing. `p -> -inf` is the enemy finding our
       worst case and should pull the good hexes toward cover; `p = 1` is the
@@ -297,6 +298,20 @@ output we produce.
       against one, exposed to three - cannot occur
 - [x] Test what is asserted rather than what is drawn: the hex ordering the
       render produces, not its pixels. A colour is not a regression target
+- [x] Draw each enemy's `M` rather than leaving a reader to infer it, and the
+      top five walks per regime rather than one, so "the exponent moves the
+      answer" can be checked against five stands instead of asserted about one
+
+**Hue cannot come from the absolute pair.** The two aggregations are different
+operators on purpose - offence takes the best single target, defence sums over
+every shooter - so against three enemies "taken" runs about three times "dealt"
+at every hex before position enters. The maxima came out at 92.1 taken against
+31.7 dealt, a ratio of 2.90 on 3 enemies. A hue of `deal / (deal + take)`
+therefore encodes the headcount, which is the same everywhere and says nothing
+about the ground. Ranking each channel in its own pool and taking the hue from
+the *difference* of the ranks is scale-free and survives 1v1, 3v1 and 8v8 alike.
+The absolute pair stays in the tooltips: being outnumbered really does mean
+taking three times the fire.
 
 ## Deferred