'Dam and Lake' map (now (1 Sept) with 'Dam Valley' map downstream as well)

[Iceweb]

I think we all want to play on a blow up the damn dam map. 

I would be fine with a quick and dirty hack that trusted the chosen maps to work with each other. 

Do you want me to open an enhancement request on git?

[Windchild]

Please do @Iceweb

[mikecj]

Beautiful, thanks for sharing!

[Wrangler]

Downriver map of before and after will would be good since nice way to "Surprise" people when dam goes.   "Oops!  Sorry the map has changed!"

[Simon Landmine]

You asked (or at least Wrangler did), and I heard. And I have (finally, sorry for the delay) responded ...

And thus I present ... a valley downriver from the dam. Again, this is now available in both 'original' and 'the dam is out' flavours. A quiet(ish) river valley, with orchards to the west, and planted fields (I like to think of these as vineyards) to the east. There is a settlement in the middle of the valley, at the confluence of the main river with a smaller tributary, which is followed by a major road. There is also some newer housing, built (foolishly, as it turns out) on the floodplain of the river. The valley sides are, in the main, lightly wooded (more lightly, in fact, than the lake sides).

(I'm afraid I was slightly lax, and didn't check that enough water had been lost from the dam to guarantee raising the height of the river by 1 level. Please assume that this is fine, and that there is possibly an accidental dam just off the map to the south-east, probably made of fallen trees and destroyed building components, causing the river to have backed up. There has been enough flow of water to take out one of the smaller bridges, as well as the buildings and many of the woods on the flood plain.)

64x68 Dam Valley
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64x68 Dam Valley - Breached
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And, to give an idea of what these look like combined with the matched dam maps, to make a 64x136 board ... it's like this:

     
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[Wrangler]

Omg!!!  That is so cool! I've never seen such urban map made with such care!
Thank you! :thumbsup:

[Iceweb]

Those look amazing
Are there underwater woods hexes?  Or is megamek unable to do that yet?

[Simon Landmine]

Omg!!!  That is so cool! I've never seen such urban map made with such care!
Thank you! :thumbsup:

Cheers!

Those look amazing
Are there underwater woods hexes?  Or is megamek unable to do that yet?

Thanks.
The water level only went up by about 6m, so there aren't any completely drowned woods. Most of the woods hexes in the flooded area were turned to rough, but there were a couple that should be semi-submerged (if MM handles that). From some playing with the map editor, it looks as if MM will fully submerge a wood if you plant it in depth 2 water, though, so hopefully partially-submerged will be handled. Buildings don't seem to submerge, though (must contain a lot of bouyant foam insulation), so I rubbled all of the buildings in the path of the flood. (This also means that you won't see an underwater city map until that's resolved.)

EDIT: I spoke too soon. Semi-submerged (and, indeed, fully submerged) woods hexes still stick up 12m above the water's surface for LOS purposes. The renderer and the LOS are apparently handled differently. Github issue has been logged, but suspect it won't be priority. I'll leave the semi-submerged hexes in for now - maybe the trees had a growth spurt because of the water, and if the LOS issue ever gets resolved, then they'll be ready and waiting.

[Iceweb]

I never knew how much I needed an undersea city/lab to have mechs fight in till now

Urban + Water that is a damn killing ground

[Simon Landmine]

I never knew how much I needed an undersea city/lab to have mechs fight in till now

Urban + Water that is a damn killing ground

Have to admit that I have no idea how the rules would interact for an undersea city, but it would definitely be interesting! (For certain, specific, values of 'interesting'.) There have been a number of requests for a 'flooded city', though, so when that's possible ...