Map Editor Buttons Part One

[Wild Bill]

You should study and use these. This is part one. I can't post them all at one time.

MAP BUTTONS

These 45 buttons with their options give you hundreds of different ways to make beautiful, accurate maps.



Here is a brief rundown of what these "buttons" do



These three are easy. They are Zoom in, Zoom out, or clear off the map. Careful with this last one. It will delete everything on the map. You will, however, get a "yes-no" prompt first.



This row will give you rocky terrain, a stone wall or a hedge. With rocky terrain you can choose rocks, boulders or cliffs.



With these buttons you can click in bocage, grass, or an orchard.
Note that with bocage you can click in a whole line of bocage with a starting and ending hex.



Here you have vineyards, or trails (beginning-ending hexes will make a trail line for you) and mud (ideal to put along waterways or with which to surround swamps).

[Wild Bill]

So they all stay together ...WB

[ruxius]

Sorry for this but my stupid dictionary (984 pages only for English to Italian ) doesn't report the translation for "bocage"...(after a little of purchasing support to MAtrix I promise to buy something better...)
Well obviously I don't ask for the italian translation but I suppose it's something similar to an hedge except for its dimensions..
Tell me something only if I am wrong , thanks!

[dfsrusa]

Bocage is a French word. It is similar to a hedge, but generally bigger and thicker. Probably about 2 to 3 meters tall and maybe 1 meter thick. It was prevalent in the Normandy country side. Farmers often had their fields surrounded with it. It made the terrain excellent defensive terrain for the Germans. It was particularly bad for tanks, as when they tried to run over it they lifted way up in the air and exposed their weak belly armor for the waiting Germans and their Panzerfausts and Panzerschrecks. To counter it the Allies developed bulldozer equipped Shermans and a special triangle device, similar to the cow catcher that one sees on the front of trains in Western movies, to cut through the bocage without exposing the belly armor.

I often use it, even when not creating a Normandy campaign, just to get some variation with my walls and hedges.

Scot Stephenson.