Its a great start, Sue and your techniques keep improving. The cloud cover in the mountains reminds me of a photograph of the Alps or Andes where the clouds looked more like glaciers with the peaks sticking out.

I lack the artistic acumen to offer any other comment. I was once chastised in a class of about 500 when the professor called me out and asked my opinion of a painting and said, "Nice, picture. Looks good." It and first quarter calculus were the only D's I got in college.

My literary critiques were similar. "Rollicking good story, Ma'am."

Very Nice Work. 😲 I'm agog.

Thanks for you help Remy, Roflo1, and Sue.

After thinking about this more, I have determined a possible solution.

I am making a map with the Overland Hex style and fitting the hexes to the contours as best as I can (about 100 m contour intervals on the real map, I can make them anything I want when I finish). You can see a beginning here. I cringe every time I place the hex on the map. Each hex is 250 meters while the game hexes will be 1000 meters (about 1 inch).

Here's a close up of the central area.

After I finish the 'hex map" I'll turn off the snap grid and small hexes and draw contour lines based on the various hex groups, then add the roads and rivers, etc. I think this will get me a 'style' in between a 'pure hex' map and a "contour map" and reduce the polygon count. Perhaps I'll draw the contours with the fractal polygons then smooth them so they don't look too regular.

This idea helps me with this map, but doesn't do me much good toward figuring out how to do the geomorphic map, but one step at a time.

I changed the map so now it will be 12 x 54 inches long and each hex will be about 1 km (at the moment). I also trimmed it and rotated it so N is to the upper right. This improved the resolution so I can see the watercourses better as well as the contours to guide me. Still need to break it up into terrain compartments and decide how to proceed. Aschaffenberg at lower left, Hammelburg at upper right. The actual training area is the slanted red lines. In WWII it was the German Anti-Tank School. The TF had the misfortune to assemble on a tank range so the Germans had very precise ranges from known firing points. When I was there it was the I think it was the Infantry School (84-87).