Here are some maps I sketched up while killing time after lights out at my medical facility. I based them off what each country was based off of (Russia for Red and Germany for Black) and made each of the island maps without a ‘host’ country to allow for replayability. Though they are a touch thematic to one or the other.
On these, cross hatching is cities, parallel lines are beaches. Roads and rivers are hard to tell, but content helps. Forests are the little pine trees, and mountains are the chevrons (the ‘A’s with out the middle line).
Being that Black is WWII Germany, I went with Normandy as a template. Staying in WWII I went with Tinian, Saipan, and Midway for the islands. There is a short river coming from the coast on the left and an actual river on the right, allowing this to connect to the Black Map.
The first Island Map is inspired by Iwo Jima, Wake Island, and an upside down Guadalcanal.
Islands 2 is inspired by the Aleutian Campaign during WWII, and this is Attu Island (the ‘city’ is were the Coast Guard had a LORAN station up until 2010) and Kiska Island. For Kiska I would say there would have to be a scenario reason to land, possibly a token representing a base or airfield.
Dad finally got a fjord map, though this is based on the Murmansk area of Russia. That big fjord with two cities on either side is Polyarny (North West side) and Severomorsk (South East side). The island off the coast is a blend of Yuzhny and Sevemy Islands. The town out East is Teriberka. For the unaware who are asking “Why the hell did he pick this area?!?” I’ll explain: Severomorsk was home of the Soviet North Fleet. Polyarny was depot for their nuclear submarines.
In all cases, I erred on the side of game play, not terrain accuracy. Guadalcanal, Attu, and Kiska are pretty much all mountains. And Murmansk is mostly forests. But that would make them unplayable, so I left some open terrain for armor or mechanized forces to move around. Graphics wise we could still put some green or brown under them to keep things from looking too weird and remember that terrain is only changed do to the symbol on it.
Anyway, tell me what you think and I’ll pass it along to my Dad.
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