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ORIGINAL: Erik Rutins

It's a fundamentally different process. A tile-based approach will never look like a single hand-drawn image. You can do things with a single painted map (like we had with WITE) that you can't do with tiles. However, it uses much less memory, is faster on older computers and allows much more flexibility and modularity for both the development team and the community as far as modifying the map or creating new maps. It also makes future development faster. We decided early on that the trade-off was worth it. The style is a close match for WITE and the final look will be similar, just from a tile-based system.

In addition, the WITW map thanks to the involvement of a professional cartographer, is very accurate and has much less distortion than most wargame maps including WITE.

Regards,

- Erik

ORIGINAL: Red Lancer

The map is broadly similar in style and colour to the WitE map but in construction is 100% different.

The map graphics are no longer based on a series of large canvasses like WitE or WitP. Instead the map is a mosaic of individual hex tiles with overlaid text. This allows much easier changing of the look of individual hexes. On the other hand putting the whole thing together, like any mosaic, is much more painstaking and is still work in progress.