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[kairob]

Hey, I thought with the new version out I would make a map for one of my favorate mods; the Warhammer mod by EmbryoDead, Mrtn, Aaglo, and Mr Do (Link here). The map I want to make will hopefully cover the old world, the new world and maybe the bits to the south and east of it.

Ok, I have finished the basis of the map, I need to sort out got all the terrain down as accurately as possible. I am going to add the recaurses, fiddle with the terrain and playtest a bit though to get all the teams balanced. Expect it out by by next weekend at the furthest.

The civs on the map are;
The Empire
Bretonia
Marienburg
Kislev
Sylvania
Loren
Ulthuan
Naggaroth
Lizardmen
Dwarves
Orcs
Goblins
Khemri
Araby
Chaos
Norsca
Albion
Skaven

Below are some sneaky peaks at some stuff. I'll post more if people want them.

The new world (not at all based on the americas + atlantas):

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Ulthuan:

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Naggaroth:

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Lustria:

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The Chaos North after the calapse of the Polar Gate:

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The Empire:

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Albion:

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[Stormrage]

Looks.. huge? Nice so far, but how productive will the new world be? Just jungles, swamps.. not much material for city growth..

 

[Virote_Considon]

I'm sure there'll be plenty of resources to balance it out

Looks good I'm sure I'll play it! (I always like big Warhammer maps!

 

[Stormrage]

You are right, its just for starters

How big is it?

 

[kairob]

Its the standard size when I generated the clean map and yeah, plenty of recources but they arn't down yet .

 

[Stormrage]

Standard? I can "survive" standard I wanna play it!

Any more screenies?

 

[kairob]

I can give close ups of those two if ya want, when I have finished Ulthuan (but I'll do all the recauses last to balance the teams out) I will give ya screenie of that...

 

[kairob]

Ok, I added a picture of what I have for Ulthuan so far, its based on a map from the Dark elf book, it is a pain in the *** though as I always amagine it as a circle but none of the pics I have show it as one, also the islands are hard to make look right. Anyways say what you think I am open to suggestion Also I did have more mountains but I swapped some for snowwy hills so the high elves wouldn't totally suck.

 

[Yoda Power]

Its the standard size when I generated the clean map and yeah, plenty of recources but they arn't down yet .

I think that would make it huge?

 

[kairob]

oh, that explains why it seemed bigger

 

[kairob]

More Images Uploaded, take a look and comment people!!

 

[embryodead]

Which map did you use a reference?

Some specific things:

You missed the most important port in Ulthuan - Lothern. There's even no real space for the city to be built there. Ideally the isthmus should be "joined" and Lothern be built on it, so that it guards the entrance to Ulthuan.

Sylvania is in the wrong place, it should be moved roughly 8 squares in NE direction, to the hills there.

You seem to avoid "plains" at all costs. The terrain with all grasslands everywhere looks rather unnatural, I'd add plains here and there...

 

[Stormrage]

Reikland`s starting location should be 1 square east of the first goody hut to the south of the current starting location Also, those 3 mountain peaks in the Empire territory should be a wee bit to the south.

 

[kairob]

Thanks for the advice I'll change it a bit

Is bthat what you mean ED?

Do you mean civ placment like in the pic below? I got the locations of Altdorf and Drakenhof from the empire book btw

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[embryodead]

Reg. Lothern - yes, though a plains tile would make it look even more like an isthmus

Reg. the Empire - Sylvania almost - 1 tile North would be accurate. Also there should be a single swamp nearby

As far as the Empire start loc goes, you can do it if you change the first city on the list to Nuln. (although 1 tile NW would be more corrent I think)

 

[kairob]

Yeah where I put it the first time was Altdorf, I was thinking that.

I did the changes you suggested, I also swapped the hill one tile north to a grassland and the one below it back to a hill (I dont want capitals on hills cos of the defensive bonus). and added the swamp one tile NW of the new location cos the was the most river their.

Do people think the are too many rivers on the map? They are all actual ones but the does seem to be a lot of them.

Also you may have noticed on the minimap I have put the "frozen sea" discribed as "pack ice" on my newest map as open tundra, what do you think?

And finaly, if you check the screenies on the top post, what do you think of the northern wastes?

p.s. What do you think for the empire start location? Altdorf overlapping borders with marienburg or Nuln?

 

[kairob]

Damn double post