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Cpl GAC wrote: Mon Jan 26, 2026 7:28 pm I want a 75x62 map; I keep trying to upload a 4800x3968 pixel bmp image, 24-bit, 54.4MB from C:\Users\mynamehere\Documents\My Games\Stalingrad\maps, and nothing shows.

I even created a 4800x3968 BMP image in GIMP with just the color pink, and it wouldn't show either. I was testing to see if there was anything in the original that prevented importing.

What am I doing wrong?

Cpl GAC wrote: Wed Feb 04, 2026 1:14 pm Thank you - it was a me issue.

I followed your steps and got it.

Cpl GAC wrote: Wed Feb 04, 2026 6:58 pm I've gathered enough information to get into detailed battles in Army Group Center versus the Western Front in Summer 1941. I'm working on both games, TOAW and WEGO, concurrently.

That TOAW being hard work getting the OOBs entered is frustrating, and, that Governato and I have talked about the flexibility of the WEGO platform, so, I thought I'd take a break and try creating a scenario about the 3Pz Group taking Vitebsk in early July and the not well-known tank battle where the Soviets had their two best Mechanized Corps slammed.

The overarching theme will be the race between the Wehrmacht's mounting logistical challenges and the Soviets' growing cohesion.

I'm tapping into the almost complete turnaround of the telling of the history of the Eastern Front in my lifetime. Through the 1980s, we accepted things like Guderian's and Manstein's books as unadulterated facts - basically "We won, we won, Look how smart we were, Tiger tanks! And then they were in Berlin. Not my fault." Then, the work starting in the 1990s as Russia opened up shows the Russians were giving as good as they were getting starting in July 1941. The author David Glantz basically makes the case that this war was lost by September 10th because of July and August around Smolensk.

Cpl GAC wrote: Wed Feb 04, 2026 6:58 pm
I'm tapping into the almost complete turnaround of the telling of the history of the Eastern Front in my lifetime. Through the 1980s, we accepted things like Guderian's and Manstein's books as unadulterated facts - basically "We won, we won, Look how smart we were, Tiger tanks! And then they were in Berlin. Not my fault." Then, the work starting in the 1990s as Russia opened up shows the Russians were giving as good as they were getting starting in July 1941. The author David Glantz basically makes the case that this war was lost by September 10th because of July and August around Smolensk.

Cpl GAC wrote: Thu Feb 26, 2026 1:15 pm One size serif gold with a black outline is not attractive. My overarching question is; why do we have to make an aesthetically better map image to sit over the game's map?
not a good look.png

I was trying to avoid three steps because I'm not good with software like GIMP or Photoshop;
1st - get a map image uploaded to use as a guide,
2nd - make a map on top of the uploaded image that the programming reads and delete that image,
3rd - make a new image that sits on top of the actual map that is attractive - readable place names, river names, rail
line visuals.

Cpl GAC wrote: Mon Mar 02, 2026 1:09 pm The challenge with TOAW maps versus other games is that the TOAW terrain spills over into other hexes - on purpose.

The biggest challenge is rivers - they do not follow hexsides. So, you'd have to erase the rivers. Then it becomes a whole thing - which is where I'm at.