English civil war [suspended until castle map is complete]

[Telvannia]

First Map

Im making a english map and Im wandering who like it and if I should carry on making it

http://img169.imageshack.us/img169/9696/map2ai5.jpg

I have not yet put the continent names on or added the names of the contries I was wandering what people though before I carried on

Second Map

I have added the continent names and added one more continent to make if more fun, made the map overall a bit bigger to be able to fit all the names without it looking squashed up

http://img177.imageshack.us/img177/6460/map13ty6.jpg

Third Map

Please feel free to make a comment on how I could improve it

This is my first version for the civil war map
the way of showing the royalist land is only to show where it is not what the finished look will be
im not to sure about the names of the territories i have shortened most of the names so it could fit in.
I also added in wales to make the map a bit bigger

[AndyDufresne]

I'm not sure this idea will get a lot of backing, due to the popularity of the British Isles map, and the similarity between the two.


--Andy

[Telvannia]

yeah that is what I was thinking it is very close to the british map

but I wanted to make a map and england is the place I know best so I thought it would be a good place to start by making a map of

[AndyDufresne]

Perhaps if the this idea doesn't gain any momentum, consider a particular area or district or city in England...Perhaps that could be interesting, something you know, and still unique.


--Andy

[Telvannia]

yeah that is a idea I had not thought of
I will think about that if as you say this map does not gain momentum

[hitandrun]

I like the idea of a more accurate map of England, the one in the British map is a bit weird.
Are you going to make regions the continants and counties the countries?

[Telvannia]

yes that is the general plan of it
the regions/continents and countries/counties are already colour coded on the map in the first post

[Telvannia]

I have added the first update of the map (see first post)

[hitandrun]

I have added the first update of the map (see first post)

YAY..none of that "land's end" rubbish!

[Telvannia]

I was going to call it cornwall to begin with then I found the proper name and it beats them all

[happysadfun]

Oxford would make a great map with all the colleges and stuff.

[Telvannia]

yeah I was thinking Cambridge having lived there half my life and therefore always prefered it to Oxford

[happysadfun]

Whatever... I'm reading The Golden Compass, so oxford came to my mind.

EDIT: Or you englishpeople call it The Northern Lights.

[Telvannia]

suppose you could do a mix like both oxford and cambridge in one map and you get a bnus for holding the whole of the city as well as smaller bonuses for just holding the universities

[happysadfun]

"College Cities of England." That's good.

[Telvannia]

it would be 'university towns' would you include durham in that?

[CHAMPOS]

how about the english civil war - cavaliers vrs roundheads

[hitandrun]

yeah I was thinking Cambridge having lived there half my life and therefore always prefered it to Oxford

I have lived in Cambridge all my life. I would love to play CC on a map of my home town

[hitandrun]

I was not sure where to put the London name so currently it is hovering in the middle of nowhere any suggestions?

You could you raise "East Anglia" a bit a stick "London" as close to Southend as possible. I think it would be clear enough.

[Telvannia]

where abouts in cambridge do you live?
and how old are you?
would be quite odd if we knew each other

[hitandrun]

Yes it would be odd and a bit scary!
I live in Free-Romsey.

[Pedronicus]

The funniest map of England I ever saw was in the first ever Viz annual.

If you can get hold of it on ebay - that would give you a new idea to work with

[Kayla]

i counted and i only see 8 countries that arent a border, putting up mountains, rivers, etc. to eliminate some would be good, id play it

[Telvannia]

well that was only a first idea
but it seems the overall majority dont like this map so i think i will not continue this map and instead think of a new idea to do

[Balsiefen]

i prefer this one to the old one because it was so inacurate, i dont believe whoever made it is british, it is compleatly wrong hampshire is inland! cornwall is just a small bit on the end most of it being taken up by devon which in turn has half of it in somerset

this one is much more accurate