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How come PBEM file size balloons from 1.5MB to 66 MB


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generally, bolded like that is someone's name. I'm playing a scen and - IMO - the map is redonkulously large compared to the forces and, most especially, the location of the action. The post is a suggestion that the scen author take note of the many merits of viciously truncating maps so they fit the forces and action.

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generally, bolded like that is someone's name. I'm playing a scen and - IMO - the map is redonkulously large compared to the forces and, most especially, the location of the action. The post is a suggestion that the scen author take note of the many merits of viciously truncating maps so they fit the forces and action.

ahh the fog lifts momentarily....like I said the blatantly obvious.....I need a nap.

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Just an FYI, Broadsword cut most of the unneeded portion of the master map and with the same forces and detailed area of the map we are now running on a 20+meg file.

Yes, and for the record, the total map size is now 1888 x 2480.

The battle area with all the detail and objects on it is much smaller than that (maybe 1500 x 1500).

So, 4 x 4 km master maps seem to work fine as long as you keep a "clean" object-free version as your template, detail only each battle area as you fight it (deleting objects for previously fought-over places) and then cut the edges in for each battle.

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