Map of Europe (edition) 20kms/hex

[OldCrowBalthazor]

Morocco looks fantastic!
Btw...don't forget the Spanish enclave of Ifni.

[Elessar2]

Yeah I actually spied that on Lothos' map. Very few of the ones I bring up on Google for that time period include the African coast...

[OldCrowBalthazor]

Ha I was just picking on you. Funny thing, many many years ago back in junior high, I got a Times of London Atlas from my uncle who happened to be a history and geography professor. It was phenomenally detailed.
I used to pour through that atlas looking for weird enclaves and other odd political borders.
Found Ifni back then amongst other little know treasures in that tome.

[fc2slater]

Please dont let this mod die like all the others. this is a great idea.

[Elessar2]

Oh, I most definitely will be in for the long haul until the bloody thing is finally done. Look for Algeria & Tunisia by the end of the weekend. Libya and Egypt will be pieces of cake...

Then, the Balkans, which won't be quite so tasty...

[Elessar2]

Algeria/Tunisia:



Split into two climate zones, same with Morocco retroactively.

I about drove myself insane trying to get Oran properly located and oriented. Eventually I compromised on the rotation to avoid a huge amount of remedial work on both Morocco and Spain, plus I couldn't draw the lake there correctly using any other orientation (while ensuring movement is possible around the thing). It is one hex too close to Spain but I can live with that (and likely tweak the Spanish coast there at some point-I have a list of little things to fix when the main map is finally done.

I decided on two northern roads given the otherwise-gnarly terrain up there.

Libya and Egypt will be done lickety-split.

[OldCrowBalthazor]

Man that looks great. The Saharan Atlas you got dead on.
Can see the approaches to Kasserine. Very well done.

[Elessar2]

The WitW map has too many mountains in there. Turns out that the Kasserine area consists of scattered hillocks/mesas, but with flat terrain in between. Makes holding those hillocks even more crucial.

Libya & Egypt:





Went very straightforward. The Nile will be its own weather zone, but I'll make sure to link it with the adjacent zones, but it should serve as a refuge from sandstorms. I was guessing as to where the sand sea began, may move it in closer. I'm not sure that southern road in Cyrenaica existed back then-but note there is only one town there, making supply tricky.

As you suggested awhile back OCB, I'll use Greece as a tutorial for mapmaking, so off to finish that, posting daily progress in a separate thread.

[OldCrowBalthazor]

Beautiful. Man Sinai looks like...Sinai
That road transiting through Msus in Cyrenica was a track...but a well traveled one. It wasn't paved of course, and I would keep it as an unpaved road. Its was heavily used by both sides during the war.

[Duedman]

Just found this.
The maps look totally awesome!
I also very much like your idea of maneuver warfare. Encircling forces aint easy to achieve in this game. Faster units = more fun (but also greater risk!).

btw that one thing north of Hamburg. Is it a city? I mean Itzehoe.

[Elessar2]

Just a Settlement. Read my how-to thread for my rationales for city/town density: https://www.matrixgames.com/forums/view ... 9&t=393937

[Duedman]

Sorry, that was meant to be a bad joke

[Elessar2]

[Elessar2]

η Ελλάδα ολοκληρώθηκε!



On to Albania, which should be a quickie. Then Yugo/Hungary/Bulgaria/Romania, pretty much.

[fc2slater]

This will be the best mod for this game!

[Elessar2]

I certainly hope so.

Remiss in not uploading Albania, which I finished 2 days ago:



Doing something different next. Since the Danube and its tributaries so dominate the entire region, I am going to do her entire basin first, then focus on Yugoslavia specifically.

[fc2slater]

Man this is crazy work. keep it up i want to play test it and give feedback. the map however needs no feedback, its perfect. well done on the map.

[Elessar2]

Just wait about another 3-4 months and you'll get your chance. Russia will likely take a full month at least.

Yugo's rivers, borders, and towns all in place now (damn but the Danube has an absolutely huge drainage basin), working on the terrain now.

I had been having Google Maps periodically lock up on me for some odd reason, often forcing me to close my browser (Firefox). I then checked the memory usage, and discovered that the durned thing has a memory leak! I can only keep the tab open for 15 minutes or so at a time, else the ram will all be eaten up, increasing by 2 gigs every 5 minutes or so-it already caused a reboot which corrupted a save. That nobody at Google has ever noticed this or been sent a bug report about it is just astounding to me. May actually be on Firefox's end-a search reveals that it is a side effect on their browser from how it handles Google's data.

[Elessar2]

Yugoslavia:



All those mountains...next 3 should be finished easy peasy by comparison (farms are no brainers for the most part). The Russian Bear looms ever larger...

[Elessar2]

Magyarország elkészült!



Onward to Rumania as the bear in the distance looms larger in my headlights...