wargamermarkus Posted November 11, 2011 Share Posted November 11, 2011 hi, have anybody make a ww1 map with the WHOLE world or plan to make such a map? markus Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kommandant Posted November 11, 2011 Share Posted November 11, 2011 I at least don't have, cause i'm already moding other stuff, so i say, go for it, i would like to see a world map for WW1. Particularly, i hate making the map so i mod over the official euroupe map Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Peter Palchinsky Posted November 11, 2011 Share Posted November 11, 2011 It might be more interesting to do the East Africa campaign with a map coving Kenya down to Mozambique and use corps units as brigades. A world map is a lot of effort since Japan is on allied side in WWI. anyone else interested in seeing an East Africa mod...I'm thinking something on scale of Spanish Civil War from SC2. I love that mod, as well as the Battle of the Bulge mod, and wish SC had more mods at that unit level. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bill101 Posted November 11, 2011 Share Posted November 11, 2011 Von Lettow-Vorbeck's campaign in East Africa... interesting idea! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Peter Palchinsky Posted November 12, 2011 Share Posted November 12, 2011 I agree, Bill, it would be very interesting. I think brigades and battalions would be the appropriate level, but I haven't studied the campaign in too much detail. Having only battalion level seems too tactical. What say you? Can you say if such mini scenarios are being worked? I haven't noticed much in the way of WWI mods as there was when SC2 first came out. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bill101 Posted November 13, 2011 Share Posted November 13, 2011 I've been reading von Lettow-Vorbeck's account of the campaign along with Edward Paice's Tip and Run, and the force sizes involved are incredibly small. Brigades and battalions would generally be the appropriate scale. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CSS Posted November 14, 2011 Share Posted November 14, 2011 However the vast amount of Entente troops tied down in Afrika was anything but small! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mathiasbw Posted January 3, 2012 Share Posted January 3, 2012 hello bill and all forum members, it's too difficult to make a worldwide ww1 map or plan furysoftware a worldwide ww1? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hubert Cater Posted January 4, 2012 Share Posted January 4, 2012 Great idea but it's just unfortunately not on our radar right now. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mathiasbw Posted January 4, 2012 Share Posted January 4, 2012 hi hubert, can i make a worldwide map, with a ww2gc map? or is that too difficult? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bill101 Posted January 5, 2012 Share Posted January 5, 2012 I'm pretty sure it would be possible, though it would involve exporting the data from Global Gold and importing it into the WWI editor, and from there it would be quite a bit of work to amend and update it. So, probably technically possible, but certainly not a quick job. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mathiasbw Posted January 11, 2012 Share Posted January 11, 2012 hi bill, i must simply copy a ww2 map in the ww1 campgn file? and then all ww2 units and scripts/events are deleted? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bill101 Posted January 12, 2012 Share Posted January 12, 2012 Hi Mathias, exporting the data into a new folder on your computer, and then importing it into the other editor is the way to do it. If it works, then it will have transferred everything apart from the scripts. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
duniel Posted January 19, 2012 Share Posted January 19, 2012 If someone makes WW1 world map, i would like to see what if campaign where Japan joins to central powers, instead of historical accurate campaing. There is too few action on pacific if japan is in entente. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Maskirovka Posted January 20, 2012 Share Posted January 20, 2012 Funnily enough I started this process last night! In part seeing this thread has given me the will to carry it through The game comes with tools to create maps, they're in the Extras folder. You can also create a world map with the sample provided you shrink it - I did so by 95%. I also cropped it so as to lose a lot of the Arctic Circle down to the latitude that cuts Novaya Zemina in half, and brought the south up so as it just about includes the South Sandwish Islands. It worked fine, but the job now is to sort out the coastlines, which do have a tendency to get mashed up around places like the Dardanelles, Greece in general, the straights of Malacca, Indonesia in general... On a side-note the Mercator Projection is great for this kind of map, because it emphasises the areas which were combat heavy during the wars and shrinks marginal areas! I'm almost finished with my first effort at this, and I will release it for criticism and proposals for amendments as soon as it is ready. After that the thing will be to add terrain, rivers, roads, rail, cities, labels etc. Then it will be ready for scenarios to be added - my idea is to have a base world map which people can use for any campaign. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hubert Cater Posted January 20, 2012 Share Posted January 20, 2012 Great to hear Maskirovka and I think everyone will look forward to seeing this when you are done Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Maskirovka Posted January 21, 2012 Share Posted January 21, 2012 First alpha has been uploaded to the repository as World Map Base. I've not added any terrain or anything yet it's just landmasses and coastlines. What I've not done so far is: Check all the coastlines for lakes etc Finish the Pacific (not sure which islands really need enlargement) Add terrain types and rivers Add labels for locations Anything I'm missing? EDIT: First big errors I've spotted are a few niggles in the Alaskan coastlines, Newfoundland being connected to the mainland, and somehow I didn't actually split off Vancouver Island at all! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lettowvorbeck Posted January 21, 2012 Share Posted January 21, 2012 Wow, I am impressed. But dividing the Pacific Ocean into two pieces located at opposite ends of the board is a big problem for playing the Pacific War, isn't it? Perhaps the middle of Asia (where little action) should have been the map edge? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Maskirovka Posted January 21, 2012 Share Posted January 21, 2012 I thought it would possible to make it loop around the X axis... However you can shift the contents of the map horizontally so it won't be a problem. It is totally possible to shift the map leftwards so as that there is no Alaska, then resize the map slightly to allow the incorporation of Hawaii onto the far right hand edge. Time permitting you could reconstruct the part of Alaska and Canada/USA that would get cropped. Although boring, it'd be dead easy as you just match up the tiles. I think the Pacific is the best place for a dividing line, and the best would have been just west of the gulf of California. With the eastern limit of the Pacific the western seaboard of the USA. Transport loops can be made for moving across the boundary - just have lots of them to prevent them becoming nonsensical chokepoints. That area's gotta be the quietest viz-a-viz any historical conflict and almost all hypothetical ones too! As it stands the only historical operation it might conceivably create a problem for is the attack on Pearl Harbour. The only problem I see is that can't be got around is that Hawaii is close enough to the edge on the map for it to negatively impact on the range of airpower - however transport loops could be placed far enough away to compensate. A campaign in the Aleutians could also be a bit of a pain, but then perhaps it should be, because that area's a really exceptional theatre of operations. It's also a good choice to cut through that particular point because it's the only one that doesn't cut through any land. Finally, significant credit has to go to the map script. Apart from tidying it up I've basically left the continental coastlines of the Africa, the Americas (except Newfoundland/Vancouver/Panama) and Asia (except the Black and Red Seas) alone. Europe's the fiddly one, and the UK/Greece the hardest! EDIT: I'm not going to change it for this base map, but design decision-wise I'd like to suggest to any budding scenario designers the idea of enlarging Western Europe. It'd be really easy to grow France, Germany and Benelux by shifting the UK and maybe Scandinavia northwest. It may make for some odd travel times, but who wouldn't want more space in that region? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mathiasbw Posted January 24, 2012 Share Posted January 24, 2012 hello maskirovka, do you change the scww1 map to a world map with ww1 areas or only with ww2 areas? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Maskirovka Posted January 26, 2012 Share Posted January 26, 2012 hello maskirovka, do you change the scww1 map to a world map with ww1 areas or only with ww2 areas? I'm not quite sure what you mean? It's a whole world map, first alpha available on the depository. I went with simple Mercator projection this time, although in my latest version (which is being terrained ATM) I've enlarged Europe some to add space to this particularly key area. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mathiasbw Posted January 26, 2012 Share Posted January 26, 2012 i mean a ww1 world map, with all continents/areas (south america, africa etc.) and the ww1 borders. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Maskirovka Posted January 26, 2012 Share Posted January 26, 2012 i mean a ww1 world map, with all continents/areas (south america, africa etc.) and the ww1 borders. It will definitely be a world map for SCWW1, but creating a straight WW1 campaign out of it isn't my personal intention. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nupremal Posted January 29, 2012 Share Posted January 29, 2012 you can use my map and just re-draw the nations as necessary Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Maskirovka Posted January 30, 2012 Share Posted January 30, 2012 you can use my map and just re-draw the nations as necessary That's a very nice offer - but although I did try look at your map, I can't get it to open in the editor. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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