Sired's Map project - Updated- 4/16 - files available see first post

The resize is complete, please look around at the boarders and point out any errors if you see any. Pay no attention to the roundels/name placements, ill zero them in when I paint the terrain. Ive matched the OOB font for zone names and water, still need to match the IPC value (why they are not on)

Also, im going to setup the board tomorrow to make my vid of the painted units, at that time, ill address any more territory border adjustments.

Thanks for looking and the feedback, the rest of the map needs little work, just a repaint now :)

Thanks for the replies!

I agree Egypt should be larger, im going to shift all the upper Africa territory lines left. Never thought about making the marshes smaller, good call!… ill look more into other impassable areas as well now.

As for Findland and such, I was going for larger sea zones, ive never had a game where those countries were over crowded. Could be just my games though, is it more active then I thought?

Oh, another question, I noticed when you put the US together, it don’t line up, say you want America to be stage center. Is this an issue for anyone? I don’t mind making it line up, if anyone would prefer America in the middle, this would make the sea zone numbers flow correctly. Me personally, I don’t know if I would like it better/less/same.

Anyway just a thought as ill be getting the rest of the map ready for paint.

Thanks for al the feedback! All the above was taken care of (with the exception of the US lining up, I scratched that) The entire Europe map lines, layers are complete and I started painting the water, ive noticed im not too happy with the default convoy icons, so ive decided to toy with new ideas.

I hope to have a pic up later today sometime.

This is what I came up with, I like the idea of the silhouette as its what it does for the standing army, which ill probably use (just make my own style). I left the one YG used on his map to show the size is still the same.

Painting didn’t get too far, as I spent most of the time of trying different convoy ideas. The sea zone lines, I mimicked the original, as though its my map, I want it to have the look of the original.

@IWillNeverGrowUp:

Those convoy markers look great. They fit in really well.

Thanks! Ive actually modded them slightly, I replaced the ship silhouette with a transport, the same transport art used from HBG convoy marker (as I use those)

Water painting went well yesterday, should have updated pic Friday

@rasater:

Looks great, Sired! Can’t wait to see the land zones painted!

One thing I noticed is that some of the seazone borders don’t line up as they do in the OOB map. I found two in particular:

Border between SZ97 and SZ99 connects with land in Albania rather than Greece, meaning that Greece is completely surrounded by SZ99 whereas in the OOB map it borders both SZ97 and SZ99.

Border between SZ93 and SZ95 doesn’t line up with the border between Northern Italy and Southern France, meaning that Northern Italy has access to SZ93 and SZ95, which is different to the OOB map where it only has access to SZ95.

You might have noticed this already, but I just wanted to make sure.  :-D

I think this is going to be a great improvement to gameplay. Central Europe always gets so congested!  :-)

Keep up the good work. Happy new year!

awesome thanks, I was hoping if there were flaws they would be pointed out! Thanks again!

thanks again, I took a few days away from this project to work on cards, but im back on it now! Im fixing those errors now, thanks again, you saved the day!

The land mass in that pic don’t show the country lines, as it was a water pic of the convoy (which is way batter now, same design method though)

My goal, in less I fk it up, keep the gameplay 100% in tact (which I thank  for helping me do so) im not trying to change values or lines, if I do, its on accident and needs to be fixed.

Thanks again for keeping me in check, ill post an updated pic prior to the weekend. I still have lots of crap im trying to do, one of which is the vid for the painted units flyover… time just slips away :( I need 50hr day cycles!

@Young:

Excellent work, I’m looking forward to printing one off and showing it in my YouTube videos.

That would be dope :P

Just about to wrap up the map water/Sea zones/Convoy, etc …. I noticed on my 1999 Europe map, it has ocean names on the map, im toying with the idea, what do you guys think?

Anyway, I may have a pic up tonight of the progress, if not, tomorrow for sure. I have my scheduled cleared for the next 8hrs, so its map time, along with some rum and redbull :)