Slitherine

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ORIGINAL: Froonp

I see I had it wrong with Cape Breton island, I'll redraw it.
For the Bay of Fundy, I'll try at improving it. I understand that I should make it slimmer, is it that ? Also Nova Scotia should be a little slimmer south of Halifax, shouldn't it ?

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ORIGINAL: Flanker Leader

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ORIGINAL: Froonp
I see I had it wrong with Cape Breton island, I'll redraw it.
For the Bay of Fundy, I'll try at improving it. I understand that I should make it slimmer, is it that ? Also Nova Scotia should be a little slimmer south of Halifax, shouldn't it ?

for easy editing purposes the south shore of new brunswick should follow an almost straight line from charlottetown, PEI to portland, maine. at least mainland nova scotia is generally the right idea so no worries there!

i guess i can mention that the coast of new brunswick just below the gaspe peninsula is a little "pointy". i'm moving to the end of the little inlet there (miramichi city, formerly RCAF station Chatham flight training school during WW II) and the miramichi river is very wide for a ways inland so i extended the river a little.

also the maine/new brunswick border is too far west so i moved it in a little.

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ORIGINAL: Manic Inertia

I think the white hexes look grouse (excellent), much more aesthetically appropriate for the arctic .. in what way do the rules for them differ from those for swamps?

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ORIGINAL: hakon
One point that should be given particular attention, related to the american map, is the distance that a land based nav need to fly from the US/Canada to reach the Central Atlantic sea zone. This should be AT LEAST as far as when using the american mini-map. I dont have the maps in front of me, but i seem to remember that the asia-sized american map makes it slightly too easy to put navs into north atlantic.

It is already hard enough for germany to wage effective sub warfare vs the CW, so early in the war, the CW should have to use CV-s (or Iceland) to cover the atlantic gap with navs.

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ORIGINAL: Executioner Five
Long Island shouldn't be connected the way it currently is on the map...it would have been way to easy to have those bridges blown in case of an Axis invasion.  I don't know myself what the right depiction is...but I dont' think the current one can be it.

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ORIGINAL: Executioner Five
Long Island shouldn't be connected the way it currently is on the map...it would have been way to easy to have those bridges blown in case of an Axis invasion.  I don't know myself what the right depiction is...but I dont' think the current one can be it.

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ORIGINAL: Froonp

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ORIGINAL: sajbalk

Perhaps it is not too big of a deal, but the current mini-map has a Canadian city/port that will never be iced in. I think it is in the Maritime provinces. The MWiF map does not. A Canadian unit coming on the map in the winter will likely not be able to get anywhere useful until next turn.

The map is certainly correct, but I wanted to call attention to the effect.

You're right indeed.
The (c) 2000 America minimap has Halifax as a city and Major Port.
The (c) 1998 AiF America map has it as a Major Port.
The (c) 1996 America minimap had not Halifax, but only Sidney as a minor port at this place.

As the (c) 2000 America minimap is the latest ADG production for WiF FE, I take it that ADG intention is to make Halifax a city plus a major port.
Moreover, the Canada 1941 census that someone posted on these forums has it that Halifax has 123k inhabitants in 1941.

So I will make Halifax a city. Comments ?

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ORIGINAL: Glen Felzien
The area I marked with the letter A shows a marsh moved one hex east. Although not strictly accurate, it is more accurate than its original location. Especially in the '40s.

I have also added a river here. This is the Athabasca River. Lesser Slave Lake drains into it. The head waters for the river is in the Jasper area and the Columbia Ice Fields. This is a significant river with very few places to ford.

B is the North Saskatchewan River. Its head waters are also in the Rockies. It passes through the city of Edmonton. This river has over time cut a significant trench. Todays bridges are anywhere from ~50' to 100' above the river due to this massive gorge.

The Red Deer River, C, starts in the foothills of the Rockies. It is not as foreboding as the first two rivers as it runs a gentler course, however, it does present significant crossing problems. It drains into the South Saskatchewan that you have included.

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ORIGINAL: pak19652002

On the left hand picture, is that a river that separates the Newark hex from the NYC hex? That is, can it be crossed by non-marine land units?

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ORIGINAL: Shannon V. OKeets

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ORIGINAL: pak19652002
On the left hand picture, is that a river that separates the Newark hex from the NYC hex? That is, can it be crossed by non-marine land units?

Now that you ask, I am not completely sure how Patrice set it up. I expect it to be a river - the Hudson to be exact.

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ORIGINAL: Froonp

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ORIGINAL: Shannon V. OKeets

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ORIGINAL: pak19652002
On the left hand picture, is that a river that separates the Newark hex from the NYC hex? That is, can it be crossed by non-marine land units?

Now that you ask, I am not completely sure how Patrice set it up. I expect it to be a river - the Hudson to be exact.

That's a river. I drew the mouth of the Hudson too far maybe ?

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ORIGINAL: pak19652002

That's what I was getting at. The Hudson is a river, of course. Maybe just make the picture thinner to avoid confusion.
I don't think it's wide enough to warrant a strait if you compare it to Gibraltar for example. I'm still fuzzy on how straits are defined in WiF.

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ORIGINAL: Froonp

Here is northern Alaska. There are a lot of places like this one in the far north, with only wilderness.
Note that Beaufort Sea do not have Sea Box Sections. It is not neither adjacent to the Bering Sea (to its left).
I suppose this is to prevent ships from sailing there, because the Beaufort Sea is too Icy. This is an assumption from me, I do not know if the Beaufort Sea is Icy or not.

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The two northernmost sea areas are isolated and are not available for naval operations: Kara Sea and Beaufort Sea. Given that they have no ports, it's not possible to place naval units there. So it is only a question of air units. And given that there are no naval units, what would the air units have to do?

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ORIGINAL: Shannon V. OKeets

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ORIGINAL: Froonp

Here is northern Alaska. There are a lot of places like this one in the far north, with only wilderness.
Note that Beaufort Sea do not have Sea Box Sections. It is not neither adjacent to the Bering Sea (to its left).
I suppose this is to prevent ships from sailing there, because the Beaufort Sea is too Icy. This is an assumption from me, I do not know if the Beaufort Sea is Icy or not.

The two northernmost sea areas are isolated and are not available for naval operations: Kara Sea and Beaufort Sea. Given that they have no ports, it's not possible to place naval units there. So it is only a question of air units. And given that there are no naval units, what would the air units have to do?

As a counter example, the Caspian Sea has ports and sea boxes. Conveying resources across the Caspian is a definite possiblity.

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ORIGINAL: Froonp

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The two northernmost sea areas are isolated and are not available for naval operations: Kara Sea and Beaufort Sea. Given that they have no ports, it's not possible to place naval units there. So it is only a question of air units. And given that there are no naval units, what would the air units have to do?

Indeed, Beaufort Sea is adjacent to Chukchi Sea where the 2 northernmost Alaskan hexes touch the map border. The Beaufort Sea is also adjacent to the Hudson Bay just above the peninsula that is at column 290-295.
The junction is out of the map area for both zones connexions, but except for the ices, nothing would prevent ships from traveling here.

I would love if WiF had a rule for ships to travel through the ice covered seas :
- Chukchi--> Beaufort --> Hudson --> Canadian Coast --> Atlantic, and
- Chukchi --> Kara --> Arctic Ocean --> Norwegian Sea

There was effectively 1 ship I know of that sailed the second path, from Kiel to the Pacific, it was one of German Raider, helped by Russian Ice breakers. Only 1 ship for all the war, the travel must not have been a pleasure cruise.

Anyway, I would love a rule about that :-))

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Can a seaplane be based in the Beaufort sea during summer?

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ORIGINAL: spence
Just passing through.  The Connecticut River (the one just East of Bridgeport) should run a more Northerly course (pretty much due North).  Up where I live now (near the Canadian border it is easily fordable over most of its length.  If I was drawing the map I'd end the river hexside in between the two mountain hexes two hexrows North of the Boston hexrow (not trying to be snotty just I've fished pretty much the whole river so I know it's depth and width pretty well).