To All SCENARIO LEAGUE Experts! - Map Check Needed!

[curtsibling]

Hi there!

I have made the city placements in my new world map for Dictator V2.

BUT I NEED HELP! (mental help and scenario help! )

I need people to look through the map and see if the think the cities are placed correct/named correctly.

Ignore the size of cities, as they have still to be sized.

The patches of tundra are oil zones.

If you would like to suggest a city moves a square or two, that is the kind of advice I am looking for!

A want to get this aspect of the scenario fixed, before I go through the mega-process of placing units, etc.

So if you wish to leave any comments or advisory edit suggestions, I would be grateful!

[jim panse]

Hi Curt, I´m looking at the map right now and thought about this:

* I would suggest to take the German/Italian names. In my opinion it would give the game additional flavour (though I do not know if your keyboard supports these german ä´s, ö´s and ü´s)

instead of Schwerin I would call that city either Rostock or Stettin.

Cologne => Köln
Nuremberg => Nürnberg
Munich => München
Vienna => Wien
Prague => Prag
Konigsberg => Königsberg
Poznan => Posen
Warsaw => Warschau
Milan => Milano
Rome => Roma

* Helsinki should be moved to grid 145,45.

* I think to replace Warsaw with Brest-Litovsk owned by the USSR would also be acceptable but then you should rename Poznan to Cracow (Krakau in german).
[The citadel of Brest-Litovsk held out much longer than the city and the River Bug is a major obstacle ...]

* Kazan lies at the Volga. I suggest you move the city to grid 164,54.

* I would place Saratov at grid 163,57.

* Samara would I leave out and include Orenburg at grid 169,91 instead.

* Bandirma would also serve as Izmir

* Damascus is far too north, move it to 156,82 and Jerusalem to 155,85.

* It´s Addis Abeba, not Addis Ababa.

* Lhasa should be at 194,98 I think.

* Mandalay should be renamed to Imphal at least or left out.

* Rangoon should be at 197,103, Mandalay at 197,97.

* Kuala Lumpur is more south than you placed it. I suggest grid 201,117.

*Tarakan should be Brunei, Surabaya should have the name Bandjarmasin.

* If you want to include Java, then place a city called Jakarta at 204,130 .

* Shantou => Amoy
Xiamen => Fuzhou
I would move Anyang to 209,81 and call it Chengdu.
Peking => Beijing
Baotou is too far west for japanese conquest, IMHO.
Jinzhou => Shenyang ("your " Shenyang should be left out)

* Harbin should be moved to 217,67 and renamed to Changchung.

* Harbin should be at 219,63.

* Formosa should be Japanese (Japanese territory since 1894!)

* Okayama => Shimonoseki
Kagoshima => Mijsaki
Okinawa => Naha

* Truk should be Japanese too (main naval base!).

* Rabaul was British.

* Perth should be at 212,164.
Darwin at 223,139.
Sydney => Brisbane
Brisbane - should be erased
Syney should be at grid 235,167, IMHO.
Canberra => 232,168.

* Wellington should be at 251,177.

* Havana should be neutral (Cuba became independent in 1934).

* I would make the southern US border at the Rio Grande .

* IMHO: Tampa => Tallahassee
Chicago => 65,71
Honolulu (NOT Pearl Harbor; Pearl Harbor is the naval base of Honolulu) => 13,99.

* Panama is far more in the South, I would suggest grid 73,133.

* Why is Quebec neutral? It should be british.

* Winnipeg => 56,60.

* Karachi => Carachi
Delhi => New Delhi

* Kandahar => Kabul
Kabul => Alma Ata (USSR!)

* Valletta => La Valletta

* Reikjavik should be at grid 114,42.


That´s all for now. I know it´s a long list. Hope I helped, good luck!

[jim panse]

You should seriously go again after the shores of the Mediterranean and the rest of the shores too!

[curtsibling]

Jim, thanks a bunch!
Excellent, just the kind of feedback I had hoped for!

I'll jump in and make the changes - I agree that national names add a lot of flavour!

So I will copy and paste what you have.

I'll your Idea about Brest-Litovsk, but I can't erase Warsaw from a WW2 sceanrio!

Everything else is do-able...

Thanks x100

[curtsibling]

Originally posted by jim panse
You should seriously go again after the shores of the Mediterranean and the rest of the shores too!

Not quite sure what you mean here, dude....

[jim panse]

Does this looks like the same pic as your atlas displays? I guess not

[curtsibling]

Hmmm...It's a bit weird.

I will close that cap between Oran and Algiers...
And that odd incline near Tanger.

Would you agree that is correct?

I never noticed this madness in my mass-city building spree.

[yop73]

Maybe you should make sardinia smaller.
And Madrid also doesn't border the sea.

[curtsibling]

Of these things I'm aware,
As I said, the map is a proto-type, and I expect to make many changes...

[fairline]

Couple of errors in Jim's mammoth correction list:

- Karachi is indeed spelt Karachi (in English) not Carachi

- I always thought it was Valletta not La Valletta

[curtsibling]

I knew 'Karachi' was correct, and it's Valletta:
So says my Geddes and Grosset atlas!

[Dr Kellogg]

Couple of things:

* I would replace Schwerin with Danzig (141, 57)

* I'd rename Narbonne -> Perpignan

* Belfast should be moved to 124,54

* I'd replace Bandirma with Izmir (148, 74)

* I'd replace Formosa with Taipeh (215, 95)

* Havana can either be Neutral or under American control as it remained a vasal after Independance..

* my atlas also says 'Valletta'

[curtsibling]

Oddly, I was going to call Narbonne, 'Perpignan'...

I just thought it sounded silly...
Instead of Schwerin, I might go with Stettin...

[Dr Kellogg]

Originally posted by curtsibling
Oddly, I was going to call Narbonne, 'Perpignan'...

I just thought it sounded silly...

hehe

[jim panse]

Originally posted by fairline
Couple of errors in Jim's mammoth correction list:

- Karachi is indeed spelt Karachi (in English) not Carachi

- I always thought it was Valletta not La Valletta

I did not know that Karachi is spelled that way also in English, sorry

My - german - atlas spells it La Valletta, but the CIA World Fact Book (http://www.cia.gov/cia/publications/...k/geos/mt.html) spells it also only "Valletta". Name it that way.