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

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...

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.

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

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...

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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

Sorry, that was meant to be a bad joke

η Ελλάδα ολοκληρώθηκε!



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

This will be the best mod for this game!

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.

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.

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.

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...

Magyarország elkészült!



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