Making campaign maps - excellent idea from the Napoleonic Wargaming blog

A post just for Mark.  We discussed making campaign maps on Saturday during our 18C POW game.  I remembered seeing something on this subject but couldn't remember where.

Luckily I stumbled across it again on the Napoleonic Wargaming blog (link below)

http://napoleonicwargaming.blogspot.com/2011/01/campaign-and-wargame-maps.html

He's used an AA Europe atlas and ProFantasy to create a stylistic campaign map of Germany (ideal for some of the stuff we're planning for 2011).  A lot of work and effort but a great end product.


Grand strategic map of Europe


Germany - strategic map



Simplified strategic map - North Germany


Tactical map of the North Germany (as used by the players)


The white square deotes the territory being fought over in a campaign game...



...and how that square is then represented on the wargames table.


I need to see if the same can be done for Portugal and Spain.