Making some progress, and decided to change the orientation to make it easier to use for my gaming group.

Still no terrain and houses.

And I will need to see the map when it's done to decide if I'm happy with the fields as they are now.

Thank you, I think I can make great use of those in future projects!

For the current map, I made an Opel Blitz truck in three variants.

Not a painter, so a bit crude, but scaled down in a map, it will do the job.

I add the symbols I created for free usage as well.

It's a really nice, ruleslight system - I really recommend it. There is an generic version as well, Everywhen.

But since we had the German translation of BoL, we just used that. We enjoy tinkering with different rulesystems and engines, creating games which are really fitting to what we want at the table. Some of our games sound like the starting point of a good joke. Like "A Sicaria, a CIA agent and a Parkranger meet in a house during a zombie outbreak". 😂

Thank you!

Yes, random name generators are such a great help. Had lots of fun using the one I posted for modern day businesses.

So many awesome maps - and so cool styles and methods of creation. I enjoyed some of the WIP threads as well, trying to learn from them.

Lovely mapmaking by everyone ?

Hello to you mappers 😀

Today I started to work with the fresh parchment style and started my first map with it.

Not yet finished (the most dreaded part of mapping - naming things - has to be done later), but I finally understood how to explode the navigation lines. Yay!

A cool style for maps, I like it.

The Lost Temple of Winter

My first real battlemap! Somehow it became a bit more simslike, because I enjoyed adding furniture that much. ?

Only the allowed community resources were used in this, and one of the allowed fonts.

Same picture, just with higher resolution, can be found in my gallery. ?

Story behind the map:

The "Temple of Winter" once was an important place of worship.

Bright and joyful chant filled the air, and the remains of the former highpriests in their sarcophagi were honoured.

But something changed, the atmosphere grew thick with fear and something sinister lurked between the shadows of the

icecold flames. The sarcophagi started to glow, and rumours about weird whispers coming from them grew.

Soon the priests turned to human sacrifice for unknown reasons, some even becoming mad. Maybe an evil force corrupted their cult.

Few and fewer priests gathered there, deep below the surface of the mountains. Their sacred songs are no longer heard, and the might of fire and heat is closing in, with a stream of lava soon breaching through the wall oft he inner sanctum. In their last effort to save the temple, the remaining priests sacrificed their last prisoners, one being a mighty entity and avatar of winter.

But it didn't save the temple, and nearly all living beings fled. An evil shadow claimed the inner sanctum.

Will a group of mighty heroes be able to stop the lava from flowing into the temple, destroying its former glory?

Will the sinister presence there be purged and make it a bright place of holy worship again?

Yes, I just couldn't resist when I found him.

The mighty Avatar of Winter ?

And the fresh version of the map with colour coded city districts, numbers and changed city boundaries.

Good evening Sue 😊

There was actually one site among those resources I didn't know - thank you, that will help a lot in various black and white projects 😊👍

I searched for such military vehicle symbols. But it's tricky, I didn't find something fitting - even though I'm totally willing to pay for resources (already bought a huge amount of different symbols for usage with CC3+).

And I want to make sure to not support somebody who creates such images as form of glorification of Wehrmacht. So it's really tough.

But on the other hand - one of the two vehicles I currently need the most is nearly done. When I finish them, I can post them here for everybody to use freely.

A bit crude, far from perfect (not a painter at all), but will do the job 😁

What really helped me get it was this video:

There it's shown, it needs the "trim to entity", and then the lines really explode up to the map border. It still needs a bit of work, but it's worth it.