and with the Brown Contour lines drawn around the polygons

Well, I think it's done, except for placing the borders on the contour lines and deciding if I want to change the color scheme.

The hash lines represent really steep slopes or embankments, cuts, etc. They provide some protection in a direct fire engagment and stop movement across the hexside. A cumulative effect is provide in the case of gaps. If you are moving parallelly to the embankment, there is no penalty unless you exit perpendicular to the direction of the embankment.

Alas, Sue. I will probably fare no better at creating a drawing tool than I would at creating my own symbol catalog. Nevertheless, I will give it a go sometime in the [near] future.

Sometimes, things just go well. I thought the colors were too vibrant for Germany, so I made them 50% transparent. I still may need to town them down.

Also added the Forest. Decided to go with a Green Outline and then put the symbols inside.

Here is a look at the map after I converted contour lines from 50m to 20m interval and filled them in. When I finish, I will outline in each layer with Brown to make them more distinguishable. The difference between some colors is too hard for me to see although it is somewhat more obvious when printing. I really like the effect and many thanks to Monsen for the custom palette's he made me.

I may, though I am dreading the work and thinking required, to skip a color to emphasize the color difference between each layer.

I am uncertain how to deal with showing the extent of the forces. Usually I just use a green fill and make it transparent. I probably will do that, then fill it with the individual symbols for the type of forest (deciduous, pine, mixed) but I find filling an area with symbols is problematic and I either get way to many or only a few and it varies by shape and size, so I may end up just plopping symbols in place. You can look at the topo map to see how they look, which is the effect I want.

Also need to text.