Crazy Europe: House of Habsburg
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@frostion Those are good catches, because, while they are good enough as is, it restricts what you can do with the relief tiles.
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The map is more or less done now. I am just running through the detail tests to ensure there are no stray pixels and that all lines are fully connected.
Should be ready for you @CrazyG by tomorrow night. Have been super sick so I haven't been doing much of anything as I could not even sit up straight.
Here's a look...
@CrazyG You will notice I made some slight alterations to St. Petersburg and surrounds including adding Lake Peipus just to create some interest in that area with the lake blocking several territory connections.
Let me know what you think.
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Change is fine by me, I'm looking forward to starting
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@crazyg Well if you like that then hopefully you will like what I've done in Scandinavia as well.
Added Lakes Vanern and Vattern.
Should create some interesting situations between the Sweds and Marks.
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I also added 2 other island groups to a separate layer. Since they were not in the map and I had no idea whether it would interest you or not.
The Channel Islands. (While this is probably insignificant to this MOD, I thought it might be more significant to a different MOD... I don't know... say a.... umm just to take a guess.... a WWI MOD).
I also have the Aland Islands.... while pretty insignificant from a production point of view... could be of some use to create more give and take as well as potentially being used to create a Strait connection to limit movement as well as creating more back and fourth opportunities.
Let me know what you think and I will either include or exclude them from the final draft.
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@hepps I see yet another border drawing that creates a tiny passage that could lead to players not noticing a threat
In the south-east of the Aland Islands water to the Gulf of Finland the connection is very slim. MAybe the border should just be + shaped or maybe redrawn a bit?
Its a super good move to make the map WW1 ready
Map maker of: Star Wars: Galactic War + Star Wars: Tatooine War + Caribbean Trade War + Dragon War + Age of Tribes + Star Trek: Dilithium War + Iron War + Iron War: Europe + Warcraft: War Heroes
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@frostion The example was just for planting the seed. Should "Germanica Dementia" descide he likes the addition of the Island chain.... then I'm sure the Coastal and SZ arrangement would need to be fine turned for better clarity.
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@frostion To be honest this is a lot more of the kind of thing I had in mind.
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I'm fine with all those lakes/ islands
I think the channel islands ought to be drawn a little bigger though
The Aland islands hould have the second rendition -
@crazyg As you command my liege.
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And lastly.... in the same vein as the channel Islands.... perhaps it would be prudent to include Scapa Flow for a MOD of a different era.
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Looks great to me
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Map is 100% complete.
It is now all in the hands of the Holy Roman Emperor.
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@hepps The Crazy German Holy Roman Emperor
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Looks as though there might be some final revisions... but here is a little taste of whats to come...
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@Hepps At first glance it is pretty hard to see what is water and what is land … maybe problematic. Could all shores somehow be more outlined or something? Also, I don’t think that shore and deep sea need to be that different in color, just a bit different maybe.
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@hepps Very nice and pleasant to look at. I think it is just perfect as it is, as long as the colour for Sweden in changed to something else.
Only thing is that when you zoom you see the black lines underneat, but hopefully a developer might address that. I'd take this map to cut a feature request about that.@Frostion I think the strong difference in the sea is fine, as long as nothing else is blue.
Probably too late now, sadly (one of the problem with relief is that get in the way of any further touch), but, at this scale, if this would be a WwII game, I would surely split "Leningrad" in two, to represent Shlisselburg in the east, that was an important fortress back then too.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shlisselburg
In 1554-1555, during the Russo-Swedish war, Swedes laid a siege of the fortress, with no success. In response, Muscovites besieged Vyborg, with no success either[12].
During Livonian war, in 1582 Swedish troops led by Pontus De La Gardie almost captured the fortress. After a row of artillery fire they managed to break into one of the towers, but were later repelled by Muscovites[12].
The fort was captured by Sweden in 1611 during the Ingrian War after nine months of siege, when the defenders lost every 9 men of 10. As part of the Swedish Empire, the fortress was known as Nöteborg ("Nut-fortress") in Swedish or Pähkinälinna in Finnish, and became the center of the north-Ingrian Nöteborg county (slottslän). -
Anyways, that territory should be Russian at this time. Just a note for @CrazyG.
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