I will try to be there for this. Right up my alley and my needs.

Over 3,000 military maps, views and prints collected by King George III have been digitised and published online free to visit by the Royal Collection.

complete story at the link:

https://www.ianvisits.co.uk/blog/2020/01/29/huge-archive-of-old-military-maps-published/


The site has a cool viewer that really lets you get down into the weed and has information about the map and the mapmakers.

Link to the site: https://militarymaps.rct.uk/

Two examples. Yorktown. Another place I have GOT to get to. My two attempts were frustrated by personal issues.

And then one of London.

Be prepared to lose some time.

This web site lets you compose the appropriate symbols for unit and equipment using the NATO/UK MS2525 and APP 6 Standards documents.

This site has several files you can download that provides NATO and other symbols/vehicles/planes/etc.

And this web site has many diagrams of ships, ground vehicles, and aircraft in constant scales.

Another update.

I find if I move the cursor just up the left hand side, the image goes inside the map rectangle instead of going the other direction so sort of draws correctly.

I frequently have cartography conundrums when working on maps. Fortunately, Brute Force and Ignorance [FB&I (TM)] get me through the crisis.

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Very nice work!

I think all my lines look hand drawn, since I failed lines, coloring, and penmanship way back when.

Thanks, Sue. It was almost exactly as I imagined it from looking (and drawing) maps. !!!!

The last two photos.

Incidently, this is the first look at the game product anywhere.

If I was a talented artist, like my oldest daughter, I might try for a look like the photo with a mixture of snow and mud. But since I'm not, I'm just gong to leave it as is. The battlefield was not as forested as it is today and there was no underbrush having been set alight to reduce vermin and encourage pasture for cattle and any wood available within reach used for firewood.

The path is the walkway for the battlefield tour and is not the road that ran through the battlefield.

It was very open, so I will be putting in some trees and that will be that. This was a brilliant double envelopment of the British by the Americans, sometimes called the American Cannae.

I'm also talking with an archeologist who wrote two books on the battle and I've been there 3 or 4 times.

Here is a picture where the Continental Cavalry under Colonel Washington (a cousin of the General) engaged in a melee with Colonel Tarleton's Cavalry Legion probably around HEX 0719 in the map, near the small stream on the bottom left of the map.