The lay of the land

[Amish John]

NSD team,

Can you give us a little more detailed description of the amount of detail you plan on putting into the battlefield?

For example, do you plan on having all the historic orchards, etc.? I know we've discussed this a bit in the past, but I thought maybe you might be further along with the process now and maybe have a bit more you can share with us. I can't imagine having all the historically correct fences shown for a battlefield the size of, for example, just off the top of my head, say....Gettysburg. Have you nailed down how many crop types and fence types will be shown?

Just fishing for info here to get a more specific game related thread going.

Thanks. John.

[estabu2]

Can you imagine doing a battlefield for Petersburg! That would be HUGE!! All those trenches, so much artillery, and commanding that battle, hahaha that would be awesome!!!

[Hancock the Superb]

I would assume it to be historically accurate. I don't know why...

But, if it is Gettysburg (which from the screenies it looks like, then I would assume it to be a very good map, because many people will recognise it.

[Amish John]

Indeed. I can foresee gameplayers and historians alike spending endless hours comparing the virtual battlefield to the Warren map checking fencelines, farm lanes, woodlot locations, water courses, farm locations and structures, and orchards, assuming of course that at some point NSD does a Gettysburg game. In anticipation of that, I would recommend for anyone who has an interest in Gettysburg, no Gettysburg reference collection is complete without the Warren map.

[norb]

The detail level will be as much as possible. That's what's so great about this team, everyone has their own area and we have people whose time is spent completely on working on the maps. It will be the best map of XXXXXXXXX you've ever seen in any game.

[Chamberlain]

norb wrote:

The detail level will be as much as possible. That's what's so great about this team, everyone has their own area and we have people whose time is spent completely on working on the maps. It will be the best map of XXXXXXXXX you've ever seen in any game.

Norb,

I know the map of XXXXXXXXX will be awesome !!!!

I can imagine every detail of that battle !!!

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Chamberlain

[estabu2]

Amish John wrote:

Indeed. I can foresee gameplayers and historians alike spending endless hours comparing the virtual battlefield to the Warren map checking fencelines, farm lanes, woodlot locations, water courses, farm locations and structures, and orchards, assuming of course that at some point NSD does a Gettysburg game. In anticipation of that, I would recommend for anyone who has an interest in Gettysburg, no Gettysburg reference collection is complete without the Warren map.

I can see some sort of mathematical historian going something like this....

Well by going from the corner of this fence post and taking the angle by which the fence is aligned to that rock and by the degree with which the house is facing that tree, take the erosion factor, plus calculate in the amount of compression from each person having walked over this battlefield since 186X. I have come to the conclusion that this fence post is off by .03meters. This is not a historically accurate map!!


Then everyone else who loves the game gives him 39 lashes each.

[norb]

Then PC schools him that he's actually wrong and our map is right!

[Amish John]

Hopefuly people will remember this is a game and not someone's doctoral thesis on Gettysburg topography and mid 19th century agricultural patterns. From the responses I've seen from the team when we've talked about the map, they seem really dedicated to giving us the best possible representation of the field on which to command our troops.

Oh, and here's a link to a copy of the Warren map for those of you who want to start measuring those fencepost locations.

http://www.simmonsgames.com/tools/mapvi ... Frame.html

[Phantom Captain]

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Thanks Norb!

Example:

Surface area of X pond times depth equals X gallons of water. Rainfall in inches overnight across a surface area of X feet increases overall volume of pond less 12,852 canteens filled on average to .75 of their volume over a period of 8 hours the following morning equals, etc. etc. etc...

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