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.

I make contour maps for my wargames. It is a laborious process, but FT3, for a technically savvy person can use it to import real terrain files, then scale and cut and paste it into CC3. Not me. I can't even get it to import the terrain files - many of which are free. But there are people that can help you learn to do it. I find Brute Force and Ignorence [BFI (TM)] more useful to me.

Well Done Jim!

Right clicking works, but what I thought would be "hash marks" to indicate slope is instead a series of circles, as can be seen here.

Note that the shapes in the Symbol Catalog show CA32 Slope while the fill shows CA30 Slope. No hashes. It also saves as a CC3 Map instead of a CC3Plus map.

Here is a screenshot of my squadrons battle area at 1km resolution from a site called maps.army. A nice rendering, more like my first version because it does not show contours, but does have good detail.