War In Europe

[Josh]

Placing rivers on game maps has *always* been difficult and a subject of much discussion, as you can see in the WiF subforum. Me, I'm already happy when it's more or less placed properly, give or take a hex. [:)]

[ernieschwitz]

Just downloaded the map. Nicely done. It´s hard to make a map thats that big (250x250 hexes). My hat goes off to you.

[bwheatley]

Ya after the hiatus i'm back to try to finish it. But i figured i'd put what i had up in case i had to bail again. Getting 1939 borders was a pita too lol.

I'll try to get rivers squared away in the next few days.

[ernieschwitz]

Tell me about it.. Getting 1938 borders in GD 1938, was hard too... especially since i changed the starting date more than once. Also the Japanese starting position is something that had to be abstracted pretty much from the data about which cities they had taken and when...

[bwheatley]

I think i have most of the city names right an din the right countries but i'm sure i goofed some. Also you then had to determine which spelling? Like in DC2 now vic uses a different spelling for things notably VOLGA river and such. So that was a lot of fun.

Also determining the polish name (poland now) vs the prussian name back in 1939. Lord that was a pita lol.

Hope to make good progress on it this weekend it would be a fun scenario.

[bwheatley]

I have the major rivers done and most of the mountains.

I also dropped 20 hexes off the left (ocean). And 40 hexes off the top because of map distortion. That means there are some things about norway,sweden that are no longer to scale properly.

Also i had to make murmansk not be in scale to arkangel. But also cutting off those 15,000 hexes has helped speed up working with the map as well. But other then the fudging to the top the rest of the map is to scale.



I'm also sure the rivers and terrain is not 100% perfect but i've put enough time into it that i'm happy with it. I've uploaded the map to the advanced tactics site so feel free to fix the map and work on it. But I'd ask if you update it please send me a copy so i can replace what's online. I'm going to leave this up as just a base map for anyone to use. Then after the map is done i'll make a new scenario for 'War In Europe'.

[bwheatley]

UK


France


NA


Germany


Eygpt


Middle East


Denmark


USSR


Murmansk

[bwheatley]

I tweaked low mountains & light forests & plains a bit to make sure there was some variety in hexes.

[bwheatley]

New screenies

France with terrain


Germany


Italy & Yugoslavia


Egypt


Poland & Pripet Marsh


Leningrad


Moscow


Rostov/Stalingrad


Caucasas

[bwheatley]

New cities



I jacked it from DC2

[ernieschwitz]

Like i told you elsewhere... don´t like em, looks like the borg invaded france

[bwheatley]

OK roads done...

I have updated the file on the AT Community Site

I know i have to clean up terrain on norway,sweden,finland but for now i think i made pretty awesome progress lol.

I jacked some graphics from DC2. I also jacked the way vic did dual road/rail as well.

UK


France

Double Road


Germany


Poland & Pripet Marsh


Denmark


USSR


Leningrad
I set it up to be similar to WITE where hopefully you can keep supply going to leningrad.


South


Egypt

[bwheatley]

Trying to decide if i want to use bombur mod. It has so much and it will save a lot of time..but it has so much and maybe too much for what i'm going with for WiE.

Maybe i'll give it a shot..maybe i'll cherry pick still talking it through.

[bwheatley]

Here is the full map?

[bwheatley]

Download the image here. (click save as)

[Captain Cruft]

Wow!

How many hexes is it?

[bwheatley]

ORIGINAL: Captain Cruft

Wow!

How many hexes is it?

Originally 62500. But Norway Finland Sweden were out of proportion. So I tweaked a bit and took off 500 from west ocean then 10000 from north.

[bwheatley]

Here are the units i'm starting with: Credit where it's due i snagged most of the ideas from GD 1938 and bombur's mod. I added Mountain troops because everyone forgets those poor guys.

I still probably do similar to WaW mod and add specific equipment for regimes down the road.
I am also going to have specific special people like we did in WaW too.

US - USMC
UK - Royal Marines
USSR - NKVD
Germany - SS
Italy - Italian Marines
Japan - SNLF (Not in this mod but just fyi for what i did with waw)

[LazyBoy]

That map is fantastic, great effort.

[bwheatley]

ORIGINAL: LazyBoy

That map is fantastic, great effort.

Thanks it's on the Advanced Tactics site as well so you can d/l and use/modify as you like. I still have to double back and clear up a few flaws but for now it's low on the list.