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ORIGINAL: Incy

For the black hexsides at sea problem, it would be very nice if it would be possible to make all all-sea hexsides blue, and all all land and mixed hexides black.
This would really facilitate identification of invadable hexes, and I think it would look good too.

Incy

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ORIGINAL: Incy

The same arrangement would also help players figure out all-sea lake hexides. Many hexes have very ambigous graphics.
Hornavatn and Storsjön for instance are not lakes at all as drawn(by the rulebook).
I think many players would interpret them as all-lake hexides, though. But a rule lawyer would rightly argue they're not.

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ORIGINAL: Shannon V. OKeets

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ORIGINAL: Incy

The same arrangement would also help players figure out all-sea lake hexides. Many hexes have very ambigous graphics.
Hornavatn and Storsjön for instance are not lakes at all as drawn(by the rulebook).
I think many players would interpret them as all-lake hexides, though. But a rule lawyer would rightly argue they're not.

You are right that the graphics for those 2 lake hexsides have to be improved. They should overlie the hexside so that the entire black line separating the hexes is surrounded by blue. Running through the middle off the hex, close to the hexside, sort of works for rivers, but fails for the lakes. If you see other lake hexsides like that, please point them out.

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ORIGINAL: Incy

-2 sea borders dont connect all the way to shore
-Svalbard should have several glacier hexes, not only tundra (se map in previous post)

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ORIGINAL: Incy
For the black hexsides at sea problem, it would be very nice if it would be possible to make all all-sea hexsides blue, and all all land and mixed hexides black.
This would really facilitate identification of invadable hexes, and I think it would look good too.

Incy

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ORIGINAL: Incy

The same arrangement would also help players figure out all-sea lake hexides. Many hexes have very ambigous graphics.
Hornavatn and Storsjön for instance are not lakes at all as drawn(by the rulebook).
I think many players would interpret them as all-lake hexides, though. But a rule lawyer would rightly argue they're not.

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-Hexes NE and NW of Trondheim

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-Lofoten (islands 3 and 4 hexes west of Narvik) (but add 1-2 straits in Lofoten?) (also a name for the group of island would be nice. The SW part is called Lofoten, the NE part is called Vesterålen)

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ORIGINAL: Incy

Names for the arctic ilands should be changed.

"bear island" is english. "Bjørnøya" in norwegian.
"Spitzbergen" is german. "Svalbard" in norwegian. (The main island of the archipelagio is called spitsbergen (with S, not Z))

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The map for Svarlbard is quite poor, for better map and proper names, see:

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Names for the arctic ilands should be changed.
"bear island" is english. "Bjørnøya" in norwegian.
"Spitzbergen" is german. "Svalbard" in norwegian. (The main island of the archipelagio is called spitsbergen (with S, not Z))

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The map for Svarlbard is quite poor, for better map and proper names, see:

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ORIGINAL: Incy
The map for Svarlbard is quite poor, for better map and proper names, see:

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-2 sea borders (nort sea<->norwegian, north sea<->baltic) dont connect all the way to shore

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ORIGINAL: Incy
-Svalbard should have several glacier hexes, not only tundra (se map in previous post)

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ORIGINAL: Shannon V. OKeets
Here is the coast line without those annoying black hexgrid lines.

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Patrice, about the river that goes nowhere, perhaps it should have a little tail instead of ending sharply at the hex boundary?

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ORIGINAL: Froonp

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ORIGINAL: Shannon V. OKeets
Here is the coast line without those annoying black hexgrid lines.

This single detail changes it all. Now it is a marvel, you'd even wish you could bath here .

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Patrice, about the river that goes nowhere, perhaps it should have a little tail instead of ending sharply at the hex boundary?

I'm adding this hex into the RLS file.
If Rob drew a tail for it, it will show on the map.

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ORIGINAL: Froonp

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ORIGINAL: Incy
-Svalbard should have several glacier hexes, not only tundra (se map in previous post)

Given that the area depicted on MWiF map is only the area south of the 78th Parallel (guess-estimation), what hexes should be changed in your opinion ?

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ORIGINAL: Incy
Am I right that you draw hexes one hexrow at a time from left to right starting from the top? And that each border is drawn twice, so the color of the hexside is that of the last drawn hex? Sometimes all-land hexsides are blue, and sometimes black, and it doesn't seem consistrant.
(but it's not really annoying so I suggest you dont spend time fixing it)

If there is an easy fix for the lake hexsides, please consider dointg them too (Could the lake bitmaps be laid over the hex borders and have the hexides as part of the bitmaps?)

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A more comprehensive solution could be worked out based on the adjacent terrain for each hex. But that wuold require more code and take time whenever the map is redrawn - which is pretty much continuously when playing the game.

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Placing the glaciers properly isn't easy. Maybe one on Edgeøya (the eastern island), and one on the easternmost hex on Spitsbergen ?

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The island "Hopen" could also be added (2 hexes SE of Edgeøya).
It's small, but is well suited as a base, and is the only island other than Spitsbergen (and Bjørnøya) with a permanent settlement.
Hopen station was built 1945 (meterological & later helicopter)

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ORIGINAL: Shannon V. OKeets

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ORIGINAL: Incy
Am I right that you draw hexes one hexrow at a time from left to right starting from the top? And that each border is drawn twice, so the color of the hexside is that of the last drawn hex? Sometimes all-land hexsides are blue, and sometimes black, and it doesn't seem consistrant.
(but it's not really annoying so I suggest you dont spend time fixing it)

If there is an easy fix for the lake hexsides, please consider dointg them too (Could the lake bitmaps be laid over the hex borders and have the hexides as part of the bitmaps?)

It's a little trickier than that. The processing is from left to right, top to bottom, but each hexside is drawn only once. Hexsides are drawn for only 3 of the hexsides for each hex: left and two top hexsides. That is more efficient (coded by Chris) and enables the hexsides to be drawn only 1 pixel wide when so desired.

So, the color of blue versus black is determined by: (1) whether the hex is coastal or not, and (2) whether the left/top or right/bottom hexsides are being drawn. It has nothing to do with the adjacent terrain type. The use of the blue enables the coastal hexsides to blend smoothly with the all sea hexes, removing the spurious grid line that I, and many others, found offensive.

A more comprehensive solution could be worked out based on the adjacent terrain for each hex. But that wuold require more code and take time whenever the map is redrawn - which is pretty much continuously when playing the game.

Compare Stettin with Kolberg to see this in effect.

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For instance, I think that the hex SE of Stettin should not be a coastal hex?

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Also, while I'm looking over this area, that island east of Malmø (Bornholm) is danish, not swedish. It probably should have it's own hex. But then again it's on the european map, which we try not to change..

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ORIGINAL: Shannon V. OKeets

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ORIGINAL: Froonp

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Names for the arctic ilands should be changed.
"bear island" is english. "Bjørnøya" in norwegian.
"Spitzbergen" is german. "Svalbard" in norwegian. (The main island of the archipelagio is called spitsbergen (with S, not Z))

The Oxford Companion to WWII has it that Spitzbergen is the wartime name, and Spitsbergen is the current name.
Same for Bear Islands, WWII maps of the area have it named Bear Island (Oxford Companion to WWII p.36-37)

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The map for Svarlbard is quite poor, for better map and proper names, see:

I had made another drawing of this place, but Rob drew its own before I sent him mine.

EDIT : Sorry for the double post, I thought that my first post was lost, so retyped it, shorter, a second time.

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Another island for the map should be Jan Mayen (No), which should be 1 mountain hex, located 600 km north of icland and 500 km east of Greenland.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jan_Mayen

The main purpose if that island would of course be to make a little splotch in the middle of all that blue. The island is 55 km long and features a big volcano, and was uninhabited during WW2.