@JulianDracos @Jeff B :

Thank you for the comments.

Yes, there's barren hills, but I'm simply not yet finished with the right side (WIP 😉 ). Still undecided whether I'll add more vegetation, bits of different ground texture or bits of both. It'll probably be rockier than the Western plateau. Will also add cave entrances to where the paths end.

The blue green Terrain is supposed to be swamp/ water. A bit of terrain where the ground is more level and the ground more water absorbent, so it catches the rain running down the slope to the North. I'm thinking about moving it a bit more North / downhill now, where it would collect more water running down the slope.

The roof damage effect is rather easy:

Add a colour Key effect to the appropriate building sheets, and then put floors, rubble, beams etc beneath it.

@Loopysue found it and created a great tutorial about it (This seems to work only on city symbols, which is a bit of a shame.)

Edit: Just tried it out with SS6. Doesn't work there. 🙁

No. Had to create the ring in a rather elaborate way:

- Build another land mass using the land mass tools.

- Copy the settings of the land mass.

- Manually set a with

- Draw a ring shape using the circle drawing tool.

- Open the sheet effects and put a colour key on the land sheet (as topmost effect).

- Draw cutouts and manually "rough up" the inside of the ring using colour key fractal polygons.

- Manually draw the coast lines of the new land masses on the coastline sheet.

There's probably easier ways of doing this (trace command?), but that was the way that came to my mind. Does anyone know an easier method?

Yes please. Just remember to put the individual trees and the forest texture on the same sheet (I moved the trees to the "woods"-sheet for this - and moved the woods sheet around, so that the trees covered the houses again).

Cool. Reminds me of old MERP maps - in a very good way.

Yes. Excellent composition, colour palette and effects.

Wonderful :)

Looking forward to seeing what you will do with this style - I like that mappers produce such different visual styles and maps using SS6.

Very nice.

Might look even better a slight edge fade effect on the stream's borders.

And maybe something to "integrate" the cliffs a bit better (manual shadows and / or a different ground texture w. edge fade around them).

Cannons exist in Splittermond, but they are rare and these ships don't have any.

I have a half-finished multiple deck turtle style-ship lying around - still struggling with the "shell". That will have cannons. :)

Very nice map. I've thought about creating a map in the Mercator style for a while, but never really gotten to try it.

The coloured names are a great addition. They look good and make the names of the main city states stand out, so they improve style and purpose. :)

I might play around with the city state colours a bit more - maybe try some "warmer" colours like dark yellow or orange instead of the cyan or purple, but that's more a matter of personal preferrence and not of "better" or "worse".