Patine
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Whilst I leave my Fall Gelb idea fallow for a bit to allow inspiration to generate, I had thought of trying my hand at the War of the Spanish Succession as my next project, especially given fairline's recent (relatively speaking) set of units for it. Although I had considered merging it into the roughly concurrent Great Northern War into one scenario, I decided against that due to the complete lack of any real connection other than contemporary time period, no attractive way to group the myriad nations into an attractive seven civilizations, and not being able to fit all of the units I would have liked to see in such a scenario into one ToT units, EVEN if TNO succeeds at adding another row. So, the Great Northern War may be a separate project I'll embark upon in the future. For now, I still need a few unit graphics, and some (like the Portuguese, whose units were taken from a Napoleonic era collection due to current lack of other representation) may need their uniforms and firearms 'downgraded' to turn of the 18th Century levels, and I'm debating between using the best trans-Atlantic map I've map (though I will have to bug someone in that case who can actually get Carl Fritz' MapEdit utility to work on their computer (it refuses to work on my Windows 8 64-bit computer despite numerous attempts at 'compatibility modes' and such) to crop just two dimensions axiomatically, and I could do the rest on my version of Civ2 MGE's endemic Map Editor), but the map in that case will end up rather smallish. Another idea is one map for the Western Europe theatre and a separate map (using ToT multimapping) for the eastern part of North America where that theatre was fought. The advantage is that I could limit the British and French players to just actually building Colonial Militia, Indian Allies, and maybe a light form of cavalry, as military units go, but restrict the building of militia and Indian Allies by those two powers in Europe. The disadvantage is I'd have to make sure both maps had EXACTLY the same dimensions for it to be workable, and I've never successfully created a previous multimap scenario, so I completely lack practical experience in it. Other than that, I have a good general idea on how this will play out. I haven't decided whether my PoV civ will be the Two Crowns Alliance or the British, but I'm definitely thinking one of those two (the others likely wouldn't be as much fun to play). Any commentary is welcome.