aits many of you may know, i like creating real world maps - earth, north america, and south america.  someone else on the test made a WWII map of europe.  that was very cool!  i forget who it was.  if they have recreated it for the main server please let me know who it was, cause i'd like to play it.

finally (for now), i was curious if anyone had any ideas about a real world (and maybe non-real world, but rather from a piece of fiction) map that could be done next.  if you find real map images that also would be helpful.

You could re-create battles?

states or national parks would be cool too

Umm how about you make the bering straight but instead of water, you could use some swamp for where you want a path, or maybe japan. and connect the sectos with swamp.

also, don't limit yourself to Earth.... Mars has some nice geographical features too... although you would only be allowed to use the desert and mountain tiles! 

or maybe saturn' the rings could be a loop around the "Planet" of a color of Team,a nd there are  a few "Moons" where the other teams have a cluster of bases.

the europe map was made by ingo http://weewar.com/user/ingo/maps

tx guys, esp. jeye.  there was another thread here that mentioned "graphics package" and "skins".  that'll help the ability to do some maps based on other planets, as well as my earth map - i'd like to create a tundra terrain hex and a ice/snow hex.

Oh as in make the pieces look like something else. like umm, I don't know, replacing Swamp with Ice or snow?

http://strangemaps.wordpress.com/

I'm going to guess none of these can be translated to Weewar maps, but still cool in my opinion.  I'd love to have a Custer's Last Stand map, but I think we would need to exclude motorized units and add some horses....

master, i guess, that or hopefully we'd eventually have the ability of adding new terrain hex types.  i use all terrain types in my earth map.

ah... new unit types too.

yes I see. Well units maybe just apperance, but I see what you are saying. the unit thing is like, make a speedy unit that attacks 3 times and with 5 range and move after every attack

commander, i had a small chance to look at a couple of the "strange maps".  from what i could tell, they would be tough.

so you all know a little more, a few months ago when i designed the 3 real world maps, i used some really good terrain identifying type maps.  i used adobe illustrator to "trace" those maps.

one fictional map that i recently thought of, but have yet to go find on the internets, is an LOTR map.  even though i'm not a big fan, i've seen the map before and from what i recall of the way it looks it is a map that is well suited for how i created the other 3.

are there any LOTR fans out there that could tell me if it makes sense to create this map in WW?

it makes perfect sence kinda. base it of the RTS version called LOTR Battle for middle earth

follow this link and view all the other maps in lotr.

is that from a real time strategy game?  i didn't realize...

and those other links are really to "sub-maps", right?

where'd the image go?   ...  oh well, just follow the link above then.

mustard - Yeah, it would be tough to make any of them.  It was more just a plug for a random site that I found quite interesting.  I have been thinking along your lines though - it would be fun to make simulations of battles.  How about making one of Tienanmen Square?  1 dude vs lots of tanks?  Think the guy could hold out?  Hahaha.

I was thinking more of this one...

http://images.ea.com/eagames/official/lotr_bfme/us/wallpaper/bfme_08_1200x1600.jpg

Helms deep is a large like fortress for the rohan and Isengard and Gondor I think.

trying this technique from the "ability to share unpublished maps" thread...

click here for the middle earth map as it is in my drafts.  where should bases go?

also, i wish we had more map space.  30x30 just doesn't cut it for those rivers

try this link... sorry

I found a board game thing, and guess what! It's with hexagonal spaces!

http://webzoom.freewebs.com/tolkienboardgamecollecting/RiddleRingMap1ICE.jpg

EDIT: if the south part is supposed to be the harad it needs desert. is this meant as how much players?

On the big map you were using Harad was a huge area, but it's actually not that nessassary, you could extend to the right a bit and make a more effective area in the Gondor/Rohan area

Rivendell, And the misty mountains are very exciting maybe more emphasis on that.

My attempt. I admit it kinda isn't resemblant of most anything.

http://weewar.com/map/19596

i like your map, masterofwiiman, above, a lot better than mine...

i'm not sure what you meant when you said "is this meant as how much players?".  i'm guessing that you were trying to ask about what i meant when i said "where should bases go?".  in a similar vein, i'd like to ask about your map what you or anyone else thinks as far as number players and where they should go?  that is, what makes sense in the lotr universe.  hobbits vs. orks, elves, etc.?  who occupies what spaces at the beginning of the story?

i'll admit now that i've only read "the hobbit", and that was almost 20 years ago, and i've only seen the first two peter jackson movies, once or twice each.  sorry 

There is in the game which i was basing it,  a like Ork and dead stuff, which are allied with the *Fortress* on the right and the desert guys on the bottom. so I would presume the "Elven" and The normal people. It's kinda one sided so there needs moe bases or something

I know the horse riding guys occupy rohan and the elves I think occupy the green area in the north west and the "bad" guys occupy the fortress like area. and the fellowship occupies somewhere north of  the rohan area.

here Ill occupy my map with the areas the people are. the fellowship is blue and the bad guys are red. everyone else are other colors

Green is the elves and stuff, purple is some other human race, yellow is another human race, white is the humans with the horses,

looks good!    let's play... do you want to start a game?  or me?

Just in case anyone cares, I have taken the above LOTR map from master, modified it so it suits my needs, sized it down to a 3 player map and now play with my mates

http://weewar.com/game/62090

I liked the map a lot, but there were changes to make so we could play it our way. I probably will change it some more in future, but for now, I think this could be a fair 3 player map...

that's cool!

That's a nice modification.

EDIT: If there were more spaces I would have added some more details from "The Hobbit" areas. and add more north, and east.

Yeah I want to play one of the maps I never get to since I am not pro but if you invite then I can play still.

i just found someone else that has done a real world map: link

lew is using desert to simulate the colder climates that would slow down movement...hmmm, that's what i could do on earth, and the americas...

I think he's implying global warming not snow...

I edited my "Map" I sent it earlier, I changed it into a newer version, and plugged in a few messups. and also I changed it to 4 players, the original is still available but I turned it into a copy

I accidentally did that loi

http://battleground3.weewar.com/map/19948

Same techneque as last time.

http://battleground2.weewar.com/map/20083

I don't know if this helps but A map I just made. There are "Set" Paths.

both of your links above take me to a page that says "

someone else's real world map - manhattan

Yeah, I am currently playing manhatten for draw against its creator. Looking forward fo some action

http://battleground2.weewar.com/game/62472

Oh, did they plug the hole?

You want real world maps? I have made a map on a very small part of the world: Luxembourg

http://battleground2.weewar.com/map/20115

http://www.luxembourg.co.uk/pics/Luxembourg_map.jpg

Very first draft, many changes to follow....

Found this Baltic Region: http://battleground3.weewar.com/map/19568

Before the month is over someone will have written a tool that parses real maps and outputs it in weewar map format

I couldn;t fit it into one image so I made 2 peices.

I hate having to do random workarounds, maybe there should be peoples that have a special account to only publish maps on.

I found this http://weewar.com/map/19896 I think that is one of the allied invasions of europe If I rememer correctly. It looks pretty cool.

Who is Mo that made the Omaha Beach map? That one looks amazing - I want to play it!

I would think that a great map would be the europe map... but with only france and Great British Empire so a bigger map focusing on water near the up and land near the bottom. Automalically british will have water superiority and France I don't know.

I'd like to see a map of Gallipoli. If anyone wants to have a go, please put up a link when you make one...

As in the peninsula? I had to look that up, I would but you wouldn't be able to see it since I can't publish it.

Yeah, Mo's looks like with some balancing it could be really sweet. I'm playing it now, with him... if someone else wants to play, I suggest blue starts with only 3 jets.

another real world: cuba

what, no beaches?

another real world (not by me, nor was cuba): rome vs. carthage

and another lotr: middle earth, third age

Not a real world map but a popular map among Blizzard RTS games: Lost Temple

This is the pro version of the map. To make it normal version just remove the airfields with another tile.

I've updated Manhattan, hopefully making it more balanced: http://weewarwiki.com/tiki-index.php?page=Manhattan

any feedback would be great - thanks!

another version of europe circa wwii

I know HumpHammer is working on a D-day map that is undergoing revisions and testing right now. I think a pearl harbor map would be pretty cool too. If I had the time and historical knowledge, I would make it, but alas.

hrmm pearl harbour would be challenging, you'd have to make blue the Japanese and place their bombers and fighters close enough so they can get in and attack the red american forces first.

Unless there was some way to place units that are already damaged... stack up a line of 1-health battleships with enemy planes looking as if they just flew over them.

hrmm that jsut game me a cool idea for a map...

Sorry, linked the wrong one. This is the one I wanted to show in that lost temple map.
http://battleground3.weewar.com/map/21533

Wow, that looks pretty crazy, going to be a big fight at the beginning of any game on that map

north africa:http://weewar.com/map/21651

So Yeah sorry for bumping this, but I made this...

 It's Oahu. It has some "Issues" though. I am currently playing it on the test server. P2 and P3 Against P1.

cool!  don't worry about bump.  it's better than a new thread, imo.

As you See I made the area (pearl harbor) much oversized, as it's a major area. also, this was the biggest I could, so reinforcement are to approach from the top right.  it's in the test server, so yeah...

Oh and also you start with 100 credits, and you get 500 per base. it's meant as there is supposed to be an expensive game, mostly due to the water units.

After playing through most of a game, I was pwnt. so I added abit more beef to blue and a little more purple muscle, so I am now made this one...

 I also made the income half as much I think, maybe not, but I think I made it 250 per base.