[Abandoned] - Russian Revolution

[Industrial Helix]

Hmm... interesting advice Marshal.

1) Will do
2) See #1 and maybe another station would be a good idea. But on second thought, the Admiral has the River blocking all the territories from attacking him. So essentially, only Trotsky could make the quick strike but then he's got to worry about Kolchak as well.
3) I dunno. This might encourage a stalemate or encourage the game to typically fall towards one player holding Whites and the other player holding the reds with the Anarchists falling either way. That idea sounds good to me but I'm not sure things will fall that way.

[Industrial Helix]

Ok, the map reflects the new bonuses and the first post with the listing of neutrals takes advantage of Marshal's advice.

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[Industrial Helix]

Is there something missing that I need to do for this map?

[MarshalNey]

Ummm... ian's away on a trip, but I'm assuming that he'll be fine with stickying this thread, and we can put it up to the Map Surveyors for review later in the week. I'll ask Evil D if he has any comments to add. Sorry for the delay Helix.

I'm happy with the map gameplay as it stands, for my part.

Marshal Ney

[ender516]

1. Does "British & Czech Legion" mean both the 6th and the Navy along with the Czechs? (Seems likely.)
2. Perhaps the word "Both" or "All" could be squeezed into the legend (referring to #1).
3. Also, regarding the one-way attacks across the Polish border, I would use the word "direction" rather than "route" if there is room.

Points 2 and 3 may be more appropriate to the graphics workshop, but you are getting close to there, and I had them in mind, so I thought I would write them down.

[Industrial Helix]

Ender, I'll keep your points in mind in the graphics workshop. I'm currently working on the actual graphical image for the map, so things are extremely tentative.

I'm making one last gameplay change, Taurida is no longer part of Ukraine. I think the bonuses should stay the same because it's still going to be a tough bonus to hold.

[bigIMG]http://img204.imageshack.us/img204/7992/russiancivilwar.png[bigIMG]

[natty dread]

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fixed

[iancanton]

I'm making one last gameplay change, Taurida is no longer part of Ukraine.

if u do this, then the thick black line needs to be moved to separate kharkovski from taurida.

a clearer wording for the british-czech bonus might be czech legion & 2 british +6. it can currently be read that czech legion plus any british secures the bonus.

a couple of typos: stavrapol and astrakahn ought to be stavropol and astrakhan respectively.

move up the text for terek so that it's legible.

does one of the polish regions start neutral, so that no-one drops the +2?

the kazakh area appears to have been the area covered by the alash orda state, which existed from 1917 to 1919.

http://flagspot.net/flags/casia.html
http://www.zum.de/whkmla/region/centras ... 71920.html

ian.

[Industrial Helix]

Don't sweat the graphics issues because I'm starting over. I'll take the spelling and wording crits into mind though. Thanks!

Volynia will start with 2 neutral.

[Evil DIMwit]

It's been long enough without more complaints and Marshal seems to be busy so I'll go ahead and stamp this map.

[Victor Sullivan]

Clap! Clap! Clap! **I'm boycotting emotes for the 30 seconds it took me to post this** Clap! Clap! Clap!

Congratulatorians! Time for the grueling Graphics Workshop!!! Dun, dun, DUUUUN!!!!

*Smiley face* Sully

[Industrial Helix]

Alright, here's a quick preview of how things are shaping up in the graphics dept.

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Obviously I'm going the watercolor route yet again but I'm trying to approach it differently than that I did South Africa and differently than Bison King's distinctive style. One of the key things I'm using on this part is stronger use of black and strength of waterspots, such as the far right beneath the river. The water has yet to be touched outside of some colorization and I'm uncertain how I'm going to approach it. The only borders drawn in have been the regional ones, which were done with a micron waterproof marker.

[porkenbeans]

Interesting.

[the.killing.44]

I dunno, watercoloring works very well for South Africa, but does it apply itself here?

[porkenbeans]

I dunno, watercoloring works very well for South Africa, but does it apply itself here?

Yeah, well why don't you enlighten us genius. "does it apply itself here" What does that even mean ?