welcome!

@pkfrye Actually, I was there from 1980-1984 and again from 1990-1992, serving as a Maintenance Officer, S-4, and Company Commander in 1-34 Armor/1st Brigade, then the DIV Armor training officer, then as S-3Air and company commander in 4-37AR/2nd Brigade. When I came back to Fort Riley I was a Division G-3 Operations Officer and and then S-4 of the 2nd Brigade. I was also a company commander and S-3Air in 2-37 Armor in Germany from 1984-1987. :)

KS is nice, except when its not.

heh! That's funny.

In the US, there is a musical named "Oklahoma" and in one of the songs there is a line which is "Where the wind comes sweeping down the plains!" To which I add "After Kansas" (which is north of and borders Oklahoma). In Kansas, the rain and snow are known to be blown horizontally across the ground and I have been in the field in both summer and winter with being pelted by rain, sleet, freezing rain (never been sure how that was different from sleet), hail, and snow. It hurts when you get hit in the face by all that stuff. The snow would also form large clumps. Once I off my combat crewman helmet, got out of my tank, got hit in th ear with a big wet wad hit me in the ear and freeze my ear drum, lost my balance, and fell off the tank. Fortunately, the snow was soft. My crew thought it was funny.

Here an overall view of the map. The actual map is 34 inches x 44 inches.

Here's a version with Sue's Hash Marks which I really like.

First with no grid, then with the grid, then with a look at the real map with the hash marks displayed. Basically a player can move through the bluff but has to declare he is moving up the draw/coulee/ravine in hex 3122 or 3123. The actual route is along the hex edge, but I don' t like to move terrain as I discussed above.

Still thinking about the ridgelines or just drawing closed contours with 0.0 width lines to indicate hill tops to assist with Line of Sight matters. 20 foot contour intervals would be best, but I would go blind.

By the way, after the fiasco with group/ungroup lock/unlock etc. I just did the map over in the last two days. I think it is better this time. I still have to label the features and designate the village and pony herd locations because my hex numbers and map do not coincide with the game map.