Froonp -> RE: MWiF Map Review - India & Burma (7/19/2008 8:14:37 AM)
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ORIGINAL: Norman42 I have found another Middle East problem. Iraq. It is much too thin East>West. Look at it on google map and it becomes plain to see. The problem is the 4 border mountain hexes in Persia that stick into Iraq east of Baghdad(you can see the southern 2 hexes on the north edge of Patrice's map above). They are wrong; one even touches the Tigris River. In reality the border of Persia is nowhere near the Tigris, it is over one hundred miles east. This problem most likely stems from the old "edge-of-the-map warped Iraq/Persia" that we had issues with before. I propose that the 4 mountain hexes of Persia from the one that touches the Tigris north of Basra continuing 4 mountain hexes north along the border be changed to Iraq. This would be far more accurate of a border. Iraq is a problem since the start, and I knew that it was slightly too narrow. But I'm reluctant to change it too much because I fear that this would causes more problems eastwards. The problem is that Iraq was in the middle of the European & Asia maps, so it was made up of a part in European map that was already distorded, and from an Asian part that is constrained by the rest of the Asia map. It is kind of a point of constriction that we can't avoid. If we touch Iraq too much, won't we need to touch Persia, and then Afghanistan, etc... I'm loathe to do this because it would also need to redraw rivers, lakes, even seas. So we need to be careful here. Maybe I can only change the 2 southernmost mountains hexes to Persia ? That would look good to me. See the attached map. [image]local://upfiles/10447/75F4C10E02C449248F86A1399A2634A3.jpg[/image] Compare it to that map : [image]http://www.lib.utexas.edu/maps/cia08/iraq_sm_2008.gif[/image]
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