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!

Well, I think I can help you.

Go to https://spatialillusions.com/unitgenerator/ and you should see "Symbol Set" and it shows Land Unit.

Then click on the Land Unit and select Land Installations

In the upper left you see a large blue rectangle with a small black box on the top.

Go to Main Icon, click the drop down and you will see a lot of possibilities. Scroll down until you get to Airport

Then just explore the various drop downs.

Go to the bottom and you will see Show Additional Options and you will get some 'standard colors" but there is also a place on the right that you can select custom colors. In this case I indicated it is a Civil Airport, the name is MCO (Orlando International Airport, but it was original McCoy AFB), and it is fully capable.

Once you are satisfied with the symbol, you click png to save it to your computer. The icon will then be very large, but you can use a graphics program to change the size, and then save it with an appropriate name.

I suppose you could make a special symbol set that has all the symbols you want and then reduce the size in CC3+ rather than having a bunch of different sizes.

If you want to know more about the symbols, you can go here: https://www.jcs.mil/Portals/36/Documents/Doctrine/Other_Pubs/ms_2525d.pdf or you can search for Army Field Manual 1-02.2 Military Symbols. You should be able to download it from the Army Publication Site or other sites. IT will show examples for many symbols.

Tom's stuff is good, but I think the above is better, but since it is based on text, I think it is less flexible and sometimes does funny things. I used it a lot until I discovered these sites.

I'm sorry I failed to understand you were more interested in installation symbols rather than tactical symbols.

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.