"Canal City" map #1, now further updated with a third map

[Daryk]

You had mentioned your parents living in a coastal "town"...  ^-^

[Simon Landmine]

Ah! Unfortunately, I did the compass alignment wrong to be able to connect that map to this one too easily. And I see those as being more like rolling English hills, while this is definitely more arid. :-) Although, as Wrangler suggested, the hinterland may be interesting to make.

[Simon Landmine]

You can blame/thank Wrangler for this one, which I put together over the last day or so.

Yep, this is a board to go to the north of Canal City #1, featuring, as requested, a small drop-port (can handle a single aerodyne, or a pair of spheroids if they park very carefully) in the north-west, a small factory area in the south-west, and a warehousing area to the south-east. It continues the landscape theme of the Canal City #1 map, in that there are sparse light woods, some areas of rough terrain, some small streams and swamps, and little else to obstruct sight lines (especially in comparison to some of my other maps).

64x68 CanalCity1 Inshore.board
Click to enlarge

(Yes, the main highway is raised on bridges over the flood plain, because a) flood plain, and b) it means that traffic isn't slowed down by having to tackle so many slopes.)

And, if you nail them all together into a 3x1 board map (which is a 64x204 hex map, or 4 classic mapsheets by 12), it ends up looking like this.

64x68 CanalCity1 Inshore.board, 64x68 CanalCity1.board, and 64x68 CanalCity1 Offshore.board
Click to enlarge

May the RNG have mercy on you all, for what you have encouraged me to do. Amen.

[Daryk]

Nice!  All it's missing is a light rail link from downtown to the drop port...  ^-^

[Wrangler]

That is so awesome, Simon!  Thanks you!

[Simon Landmine]

Nice!  All it's missing is a light rail link from downtown to the drop port...  ^-^

You've got a road, what more do you people want? :-)
(I'm waiting for functional rail implementation before I start putting rail links into my maps.)

When used as a stand-alone map fight-through map, I'd recommend fighting north-south, as with only two bridges on this board, that river is a major obstacle (except for Phoenix Hawk-grade jumpers), which could be a substantial tactical challenge, picking which side of the river to deploy forces on.

[Hammer]

Nice!  All it's missing is a light rail link from downtown to the drop port...  ^-^

Sounds like a standard argument in most modern cities  ;D

[Simon Landmine]

Sounds like a standard argument in most modern cities  ;D

Yeah. Just because Springfield got a monorail, now everyone wants one. Doesn't matter what happened to theirs ...  :)

[Daryk]

Heh... you could always claim there's a subway...  ^-^

[Simon Landmine]

Heh... you could always claim there's a subway...  ^-^

Remember that I live in London, so I'm happy to do that ... [grin]

[Daryk]

Cool... We had to cancel our class trip to London this year, but we might get to go again next year...

[Wrangler]

If light rail/subway functionality is added, infantry movement will be spectacularly fast and expensive trolley fees.

[Simon Landmine]

"Sorry sir, we couldn't get to the front - the Lieutenant hadn't topped up the credit on his travel card."

[Daryk]

That's a good one!  ;D

[Kojak]

I really love this map combo, and I can think of at least two of my three campaigns where I can use this in the near-ish future. So thank you for these.

[Simon Landmine]

I really love this map combo, and I can think of at least two of my three campaigns where I can use this in the near-ish future. So thank you for these.

Cheers! Glad that they could be of use, and hope the campaigns go well. Hope to hear how the resulting battles go.

[Hammer]

You can blame/thank Wrangler for this one, which I put together over the last day or so.

Yep, this is a board to go to the north of Canal City #1, featuring, as requested, a small drop-port (can handle a single aerodyne, or a pair of spheroids if they park very carefully) in the north-west, a small factory area in the south-west, and a warehousing area to the south-east. It continues the landscape theme of the Canal City #1 map, in that there are sparse light woods, some areas of rough terrain, some small streams and swamps, and little else to obstruct sight lines (especially in comparison to some of my other maps).

64x68 CanalCity1 Inshore.board
Click to enlarge

(Yes, the main highway is raised on bridges over the flood plain, because a) flood plain, and b) it means that traffic isn't slowed down by having to tackle so many slopes.)

And, if you nail them all together into a 3x1 board map (which is a 64x204 hex map, or 4 classic mapsheets by 12), it ends up looking like this.

64x68 CanalCity1 Inshore.board, 64x68 CanalCity1.board, and 64x68 CanalCity1 Offshore.board
Click to enlarge

May the RNG have mercy on you all, for what you have encouraged me to do. Amen.

Map-ticons merge and form RNG Crippler!  Also added :)

[Wrangler]

Whoo!  Thanks Hammer!  This will be fun to do! (well, for some... ^-^)

[Simon Landmine]

Map-ticons merge and form RNG Crippler!  Also added :)

[giggle] Also, thanks!