Twisted Med Large

I am very proud of how this map turned out, hopefully it will not be too big for some of you.

A few notes:

For the reasons behind this perspective, see my original twisted med map thread.

I am cropping a couple versions of this will post them in the 2nd and 3rd post

I will be extending this to the north eventually, as it stands the north edge is around Kiev.

The map is heavily forested because of what I am using it for, you may want to remove some forest.

Call me wierd, but I don't like the way flood plains look on the mini map and I never really like the xtra food it gives compared to straight grassland??? so I put plains and grass around the nile and euphrates/tigris, change if you don't like.

There are no resources, starting locations, etc. Use this map to create your own scenario or import someone elses rules/resources/etc.

The present map full size is 250 by 150 for 18750 tiles, this is roughly comparable to 195x195. Check the second or third post for a substantially smaller map with some of the edges trimmed.

The rivers/terrain distribution in sudan/ethiopia and iran areas may need some tweaking, I didn't have good map resources to work from in these areas, also have no water sources in arabia as it is now.

There was a canal connecting the red sea and med in ancient times, I have this represented on the map so that a city on that location will allow passage, in case you were wondering why it looks wierd there.

This is the main map 250 by 150

Enjoy!

Updated 4/5 with a few corrections to map
Baltic Island and shoreline
Corsica and Sardinia shifted
Reworked Euphrates/Tigris a bit

23 of you have the old one

Ok this is a crop of the main map, it cuts off scotland and ireland, africa and arabia below egypt and all of russia. Only weakness is that theres really no room for the persians. Might be a good map for rise of rome scenario.

Size is 180 by 120 for 10,800 tiles, just a little smaller than a 150 by 150.

Darn, sorry to all you vikings out there, I left out that big island in the Baltic. Just now saw that, you will have to drop it in.

That's looking nice, will have to give it a try.

Will you make a version with start locations and resources?

Two thumbs up!

I am very interested Will be taking a careful look. The only problem is see is with the immense African desert. Ah, if the map could be at little less twisted... Anyway, it is a great piece of work!

it would be real nice to play your mod on this map pink! Hint Hint

I agree the large desert is a drawback, but I personally find it better than the 'normal' perspective as then you have a large area of russia that have to be filled in. This way you can just prevent cities from being built on desert, there werent many people living there anyways!

I cropped down a 190 by 130 out of this thats roughly the same as the map in post 3 and went around placing cities on it, roman empire fits real nice on it, just concerned about it still being too big.

If anyone is going to do some serious endeavor using this map please pm me so I can give you a better version. I have been looking at it and tweaking a few things, like that island in the baltic i forgot, and sardinia/corsica had to be shifted a square to the right as they are just a little off as it stands now.

Civilicious said:

I cropped down a 190 by 130 out of this thats roughly the same as the map in post 3 and went around placing cities on it, roman empire fits real nice on it, just concerned about it still being too big.

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Ultimately, it always come back to this. Too big, too slow RFRE is already lagging quite a bit on a 120 x 100. A map sized somewhat between the small twisted med and this one could be it though...

Civilicious said:

If anyone is going to do some serious endeavor using this map please pm me so I can give you a better version. I have been looking at it and tweaking a few things, like that island in the baltic i forgot, and sardinia/corsica had to be shifted a square to the right as they are just a little off as it stands now.

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Why not just update the map you've got posted here as these changes are made?

10 Fablous

ok the original in post 2 has been updated with a few corrections

I said I wasn't going to ever make a map again after that monster but I am starting one more. Pink keep your eyes on this one!

It will be at a smaller angle and the size is set at 160 by 100

Civilicious, you are very productive, and quality is there, I am impressed! Frankly, I can't say I will use another map or not for my mod, first because I am feeling lazy to reset it once again, and second because I am unsure how the game will fare with a larger map. Also, for a Roman mod, it would need a bit more coverage in the east or Parthia will be limited to Mesopotamia, and would then be an easy victim for total destruction by any Trajan. Anyway, I keep my eyes on it

pinktilapia said:

Civilicious, you are very productive, and quality is there, I am impressed! Frankly, I can't say I will use another map or not for my mod, first because I am feeling lazy to reset it once again, and second because I am unsure how the game will fare with a larger map. Also, for a Roman mod, it would need a bit more coverage in the east or Parthia will be limited to Mesopotamia, and would then be an easy victim for total destruction by any Trajan. Anyway, I keep my eyes on it

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I moved the east border over some, Rhagae and Ectbatana will fit.

I hope you won't begrudge me the opportunity of putting your mod on my map myself?

The medium map is about halfway done now, will probably finish it up by this weekend. It looks fairly accurate as opposed to the TAM map, but italy is actually losing a few tiles and sicily lost a couple tiles too.

Ok, look forward to it. And be sure to post the BIQ on RFRE thread if you ever put the mod on this new map

Baltic Island and shoreline

WTH are you talking.. there are no such thing as Baltic island.
Baltic countries are Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania.. and all of these are part of continent.. i live in one of them.. so trust me your geographic knowledge is not very good. Estonia has two quite big islands but these are called Saaremaa and Hiiumaa and are still so small, that don't fit into the civ scale. Most of americans think that these lands are on Russian territory, but we declared independency in 1991 and now we have totaly free democratic countries and are proud of it.

I am usually a hypocrite of anything not my own but, this is freakin awesome, best every seen.

AncientOne said:

Baltic Island and shoreline

WTH are you talking.. there are no such thing as Baltic island.
Baltic countries are Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania.. and all of these are part of continent.. i live in one of them.. so trust me your geographic knowledge is not very good. Estonia has two quite big islands but these are called Saaremaa and Hiiumaa and are still so small, that don't fit into the civ scale. Most of americans think that these lands are on Russian territory, but we declared independency in 1991 and now we have totaly free democratic countries and are proud of it.

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Hey hey now relax, dont pop a vein, I was just in a hurry, I didn't mean to offend you. I left out Gotland in the first edition, and I was not 100 percent on the name so I called it Baltic island (as in 'an island in the Baltic'). As for Estonia, one of those islands is in, I didn't have room for both of them.

My geography is actually quite good, for an American anyway.

I've been playing for some time now and I love your map. You even put the Vulcano on sicily, hope my city will not burn ;-)

Now I go back and kick those nasty greek macedonian hoplites off crete...

Thanks for this map!

Don't mess with elephants...
Crete has been liberated again. Just wanted you to know...