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2 New 4X8' Maps
« on: 16 July 2013, 10:40:40 »
Hello everyone. I'm Mapmaster. You may remember me from such hits as "Check out these huge effin maps I made" or "That thread got modded".

Anyways, Here's my 2 newest creations:

Wastelands


Closeup:


and Airport


Closeup: (me and a few fans were still in the process of hashing out the hex markers, thus the numbered hexes)
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Re: 2 New 4X8' Maps
« Reply #1 on: 16 July 2013, 19:02:31 »
Wow. Just wow. It looks like you superposed a hex grid over an airport photo for that last two, is that correct?

Out of interest, what program do you use to create them?

Oh, and even though I've already said it earlier in this post, those are some seriously impressive maps you have there.

Edited for spelling
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Re: 2 New 4X8' Maps
« Reply #2 on: 16 July 2013, 23:18:20 »
Is that a F-22 in the picture?
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Re: 2 New 4X8' Maps
« Reply #3 on: 17 July 2013, 00:25:16 »
F-35, but looks out of scale.

I can see a couple of Citation business jets (which I work on for a living), and I think the JSF isn't as big as them.
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Re: 2 New 4X8' Maps
« Reply #4 on: 18 July 2013, 11:16:50 »
What is that weird-looking plane 3 hexes down right from the F35?
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Re: 2 New 4X8' Maps
« Reply #5 on: 18 July 2013, 16:52:47 »
Quote from: Maskerade on 16 July 2013, 19:02:31
Wow. Just wow. It looks like you superposed a hex grid over an airport photo for that last two, is that correct?

Out of interest, what program do you use to create them?

Oh, and even though I've already said it earlier in this post, those are some seriously impressive maps you have there.

Edited for spelling

Thanks. There's a lot more where that came from. If you search for the thread mentioned in the OP, you can see most of the rest of the collection.

It's all done in photoshop and then I print them at the shop where I work.
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Re: 2 New 4X8' Maps
« Reply #6 on: 18 July 2013, 16:59:34 »
Quote from: Weirdguy on 17 July 2013, 00:25:16
F-35, but looks out of scale.

I can see a couple of Citation business jets (which I work on for a living), and I think the JSF isn't as big as them.

ding ding ding. You're probably right about the scale. I just wanted to throw some planes in there that didn't look like crop dusters.
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Re: 2 New 4X8' Maps
« Reply #7 on: 18 July 2013, 17:00:07 »
Quote from: Sabelkatten on 18 July 2013, 11:16:50
What is that weird-looking plane 3 hexes down right from the F35?

sci-fi craft pulled from another image. not sure which one.
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Re: 2 New 4X8' Maps
« Reply #8 on: 18 July 2013, 23:03:10 »
Floatplane? Most have both wheels and skids.

#35.. is that a boat?  :o

And I like the red and white Warrior VTOL as well. But couldn't you just leave out the Mobile HQ in Hex 48?

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Re: 2 New 4X8' Maps
« Reply #9 on: 19 July 2013, 08:06:29 »
Just wow....sorry to sound dumb.   Where can we download these things?  We need special program to be able print them out as map sheets or this strictly for MegaMek?
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Re: 2 New 4X8' Maps
« Reply #10 on: 19 July 2013, 11:18:49 »
No, I have folks that have tried to convert them to megamek, but I make them for the sole purpose of tabletop play. The original thread in which they appeared is here:

http://bg.battletech.com/forums/index.php/topic,11787.0.html

The old links are dead, but there are links to other sites where you can view the entire collection.
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Re: 2 New 4X8' Maps
« Reply #11 on: 19 July 2013, 11:37:55 »
Quote from: truetanker on 18 July 2013, 23:03:10
Floatplane? Most have both wheels and skids.

#35.. is that a boat?  :o

And I like the red and white Warrior VTOL as well. But couldn't you just leave out the Mobile HQ in Hex 48?

TT O:-)

Good call on the VTOL and Mobile HQ! I'll have to remember that the next time we are playing on it!
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Re: 2 New 4X8' Maps
« Reply #12 on: 19 July 2013, 13:49:38 »
That top map looks perfect for Mars, so very perfect....
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Re: 2 New 4X8' Maps
« Reply #13 on: 20 July 2013, 14:06:05 »
Quote from: Stormlion1 on 19 July 2013, 13:49:38
That top map looks perfect for Mars, so very perfect....

Just unbelievably accurate, right? It's almost like i took satellite images OF mars and somehow turned them INTO this map, right?  :D

How ya been, storm? You should shoot me a PM sometime.
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Re: 2 New 4X8' Maps
« Reply #14 on: 20 July 2013, 15:13:49 »
Not bad, working my rear off. And don't worry I plan to shoot you that PM soon.
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Re: 2 New 4X8' Maps
« Reply #15 on: 20 July 2013, 22:39:44 »
Notice I ddn't menton about the Artillery setup in Hex 21...  ::)

Didn't here it from me.  O:-)

On that Mars one... notice how the smaller mound could be a bunker while the crater might have been one.

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Re: 2 New 4X8' Maps
« Reply #16 on: 25 July 2013, 20:48:23 »
what about a sci-fi "super-sequoiya super-forest" map, with sci-fi-but-not-fantasy super-tall-trees (say, the world's gravity = 0.5G), which would be about 300m tall, and 30m wide at the base...

would it be potentially possible, to "super-size" (perhaps by a factor of <=2) a giant redwood forest, for an "Endor" sort of scenario, having hex-sized tree trunks...

a few fallen over, stretching 8-12 hexes long, being barriers to (non-jump) movement...

7-hex (=1+6 surrounding hexes) or more-sized-shadows, from the branches & boughs ?  the surrounding 6 hexes would = rough terrain, from the gnarly knobbly roots

the lowest lying of which would be about +100-200m = level 20-30-ish

perhaps w/ some exceptions, to impede high-for-'Mechs jumps ?


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or, what about an industrial park map, simulating some crucial complex, perhaps w/ parts which are run-down and abandoned (e.g. game-centuries-old-wings of factories which once produced LosTech equipment for 'Mechs, but which weren't used during the SWs for centuries) ?
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Re: 2 New 4X8' Maps
« Reply #17 on: 27 July 2013, 19:20:56 »
Bismarck~ Housebook Stiener has Industrial Hex stats and if you want, just take the Factory from Solaris 7 Mappack and add them to it, along with Rubble Hexs and a few more Buildings if you want too.

But Mapmaster: Is this possible to be the next map you do?

Tharkad City ( Chernobyl ) http://maisonbisson.com/post/11281/chernobyl-and-pripyat-satellite-photos/

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Re: 2 New 4X8' Maps
« Reply #18 on: 30 July 2013, 12:08:42 »
Quote from: truetanker on 27 July 2013, 19:20:56
Bismarck~ Housebook Stiener has Industrial Hex stats and if you want, just take the Factory from Solaris 7 Mappack and add them to it, along with Rubble Hexs and a few more Buildings if you want too.

But Mapmaster: Is this possible to be the next map you do?

Tharkad City ( Chernobyl ) http://maisonbisson.com/post/11281/chernobyl-and-pripyat-satellite-photos/

TT

Link doesn't seem to be working.
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Re: 2 New 4X8' Maps
« Reply #19 on: 30 July 2013, 19:19:39 »
Ok...

Hmmm...

Pic?


Largest res I can get.

51.404902N, 30.049775E ( Google map )

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Re: 2 New 4X8' Maps
« Reply #20 on: 31 July 2013, 00:23:34 »
You know I feel radioactive just looking at that pic.
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Re: 2 New 4X8' Maps
« Reply #21 on: 31 July 2013, 22:02:41 »
people appear to oppose "house" rules...

but hypothetically you could create a BT map on squares, for cities, vs. hexes...

something such as 0.5MP to turn 45 degrees (1.0MP for 90), and 1.5MP to move diagonally, wouldn't seem super difficult to do
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their rules (not mine) = "everybody dies, and from death, some are selected to slavery"

foolish farmers fooled forth from farms, to the field, at (e.g.) Marathon, where many men met determined doom, and all others, identified, were ever after relentlessly pursued & hunted down, themselves, their families, their blood, per policy of "pasture-ization", by (e.g.) oath-sworn Hannibal, patiently, for prolonged protracted periods, to present -- those have been being The Rules, for many millennia

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Re: 2 New 4X8' Maps
« Reply #22 on: 01 August 2013, 12:44:36 »
Quote from: truetanker on 30 July 2013, 19:19:39
Ok...

Hmmm...

Pic?


Largest res I can get.

51.404902N, 30.049775E ( Google map )

TT

the link worked for me on a different computer, but unfortunately, the image is still too low res to use. believe me, if the right images were easier to find, there would be a lot more of these maps in my portfolio.
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Re: 2 New 4X8' Maps
« Reply #23 on: 01 August 2013, 16:53:41 »
Quote from: truetanker on 30 July 2013, 19:19:39
51.404902N, 30.049775E ( Google map )

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Re: 2 New 4X8' Maps
« Reply #24 on: 01 August 2013, 19:00:00 »
Quote from: truetanker on 01 August 2013, 16:53:41
TT

No, I actually used the google maps link. It's still too low res to make a good looking print. I'll try to post a link to a good resolution image to give you a point of comparison.

I really appreciate people scouting the tronz for good images though. I've got about 3 good maps left that I can make before I run out of images that I've found.
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Re: 2 New 4X8' Maps
« Reply #25 on: 02 August 2013, 22:15:11 »
I plan on using the big woodland map you made up this weekend. Close quarter combat should be interesting I think.
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