Strategic Map Preview

[Subchaser]

I also want to say I like this map but I can’t. I see some serious inaccuracies on this map. Are you sure that Australia is six times larger than India? Australia covers 2,966,368 square miles, India covers 1,269,346 square miles, Australia is only 2,34 times larger than India but not 6 times as on this map.

Can you please explain the reasons you have done the map this way?

[pasternakski]

Originally posted by Subchaser
I also want to say I like this map but I can’t. I see some serious inaccuracies on this map. Are you sure that Australia is six times larger than India? Australia covers 2,966,368 square miles, India covers 1,269,346 square miles, Australia is only 2,34 times larger than India but not 6 times as on this map.

Can you please explain the reasons you have done the map this way?

The problem is Mercator's disease. No matter how you try to project a round object onto a flat surface, distortions will occur.

I'm sure the proportioning decisions were rationally made. One thing the creator of a strategic wargame map treating primarily air and naval warfare must face is equalization of distances calculated in real-life observation on the actual terrestrial globe. Also, areas that are not central to what will likely be the primary theaters can absorb some of the needed distortion while the projected "hot spots" are crafted with more precision.

[Subchaser]

Thanks for clarification pasternakski

Anyway I’m doomed to buy this game even if this map will be replaced with map of moon (with accurate one, of course) .

[Drex]

Originally posted by pasternakski
The problem is Mercator's disease. No matter how you try to project a round object onto a flat surface, distortions will occur.

I'm sure the proportioning decisions were rationally made. One thing the creator of a strategic wargame map treating primarily air and naval warfare must face is equalization of distances calculated in real-life observation on the actual terrestrial globe. Also, areas that are not central to what will likely be the primary theaters can absorb some of the needed distortion while the projected "hot spots" are crafted with more precision.

How to integrate Euclidian geometry onto a non-Euclidian surface must be a Hurculean task.

[siRkid]

Originally posted by Joe 98
Wow looks very nice. I am happy there is a “strategic map”

I wonder about the lines dividing up the map.

I also note the sheer number of bases and wonder how I can possibly keep track of them all.

As for the short scenarios, I would hope they are played on separate maps. To take the full map and make some areas unplayable is just not the same.

The dividing lines are for allowing you to select which areas to let the AI control while you concentrate on the ones you want.

[pasternakski]

Originally posted by Drex
How to integrate Euclidian geometry onto a non-Euclidian surface must be a Hurculean task.

Not to mention calculating the correct angle of dangle.