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On the US Northwest map it appears Spokane is one hex too far north. It should be the same distance from Canada as is Seattle. The major road connecting it and Seattle actually dips down from Seattle then back up to Spokane. I would place Spokane near the top of the hex just below where it currently is and run the road that goes east from it straight east into Montana. The one that goes west to Seattle, I would angle it south west one hex from Spokane then across towards Seattle then angle back up one hex east of Seattle. That would be I-90.
Seattle & Spokane are about the same distance, with Seattle a bit more south.
When I look at Seattle and where it is placed within its hex, I see that it should be in the north of its hex when I look at its position relative to the bay.
So, I will move Seattle within its hex to the north, and let Spokane where it is, because I think it is OK as this way. Spokane must be near the Spokane River, and rivers in WiF are along hexsides. So I'd have to move the river, and this is too hard to do, and risks introducing more cascading changes.
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I couldn't quite make out the town in black to the right of Spokane but had a good laugh when I zoomed in on it. Wallace..what a tiny little place that is, just around 500 people if I recall..I guess that is supposed to represent the Silver mines in that region with Wallace as the centerpoint which would be right..just Wallace..yea..there are lots of silver mines in that area..but that isn't what Wallace was famous for 50 years ago..lol. I would probably move Wallace just to the bottom of the hex it currently is in..since it too is the same distance from Canada as Spokane and Seattle should be (100 miles give or take).
When we were talking about what the resources were representing, this one was listed as Lead. Not Silver. I see that there are both Silver & Lead in the area.
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But then if you adjust Spokane and Wallace..then you have to adjust the roads and the Spokane River..and of course the open hex to the right of where Spokane is right now and the one southwest of that one are shown as open terrain and are really fairly mountainous..not as much as the area around Wallace but pretty close..so if the green terrain is rough terrain..then thats probably what they should be and not open. (My little fortress is on one of them missing mountains between Spokane and Wallace).
So the hex east of Spokane should be forest (green) ? (Yes, forest means rough, less rough than mountain, but more rough than clear terrain.
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On another note, the largest mine in that region was Bunker Hill in Kellog about 10-15 miles west of Wallace that was silver, lead, and zinc. The biggest silver mine was Sunshine near Wallace (one of many mines)..and if I recall right, the second largest producer of Silver in the country at the time. Most the mines up there are closed now..although Sunshine recently re-opened.
On my 1940 map of the area, there is Wallace, but there is neither Kellogg, nor Bunker Hill nor Sunshine.
Moreover, I was asked during the review of the map to move the Spokane RP (that was in the hex east of Spokane) one hex to the east where it is now. So originaly it may have been in the position you say Kellog & Bunker Hill are. But I don't live there, so if I'm told once that the RP should be around Wallace, and then that the RP should be 1 hex east from Spokane and represent Kellogg, what should I do ?
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