JarlFrank
I like Thief THIS much
In real-life, people think in terms of the cardinal directions. Even though the Earth is a globe, not a plane. Two examples to highlight this: travelling east or west on a hex map requires a drunken walk, and perhaps more importantly, there isn't even a word in common parlance to describe 4 of the 6 directions on a hex grid.
North, northeast, southeast, south, southwest, northwest