Submit your personal maps of your home city in 1500m=1 hex format here!

Toltrin · 05-06-2012, 07:45 PM

Here is Portland, Oregon. This is my submission and your submission does not have to be exact or have to be converted. Just that it's scaled correctly and be interesting to play. Sometimes the best maps are the ones with history behind them...
I was working on the Seattle map (where a factory is) but I didn't want to print out 20+ pages for the 1500m = 1 hex format. I could have done it in 4 pages if certain scaling solutions were found (like every unit had 1 range).

On a humorous note check out this town...

offsides · 05-06-2012, 09:31 PM

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Originally Posted by Toltrin

Here is Portland, Oregon. This is my submission and your submission does not have to be exact or have to be converted. Just that it's scaled correctly and be interesting to play. Sometimes the best maps are the ones with history behind them...
I was working on the Seattle map (where a factory is) but I didn't want to print out 20+ pages for the 1500m = 1 hex format. I could have done it in 4 pages if certain scaling solutions were found (like every unit had 1 range).

On a humorous note check out this town...

Nice - I'll have to see what Philadelphia looks like, but I suspect that it might be a bit more urban that I really want to deal with :)

selenite · 05-06-2012, 09:42 PM

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Originally Posted by offsides

Nice - I'll have to see what Philadelphia looks like, but I suspect that it might be a bit more urban that I really want to deal with :)

Any place important enough to fight over is probably too urban for a lot of players to want to fight in.

Luke Bunyip · 05-06-2012, 09:50 PM

Map the town gates, rather than the town itself. What I call the periurban fringe.

JLV · 05-07-2012, 12:25 AM

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Originally Posted by Toltrin

On a humorous note check out this town...

Yeah, I've been working on a World War I game for ADC2 now for several months -- one of the places I mapped back when I was building the maps, of course, was the Baltic states. Had to include the town of Ogre in Latvia (at the confluence of the Ogre River and the Dvina River)!

JLV · 05-07-2012, 12:42 AM

Really nice map of Portland. I just spent about 18 months in Oregon, and used to run up to Portland pretty regularly for various things. Your map brings back some fond memories of that. Thanks for sharing! Now, I think it's time to put a battalion of battlesuits in there and see if we can't burn us down some city! Yee Haa! :-)

(Edited to add: I should map the Florida Keys (I spent five years there towards the end of my military career fighting the drug war), but it wouldn't work very well since most of the islands are nowhere near a mile across. Still, the Seven-Mile Bridge (it really is, you know -- seven miles from end to end), which was used in True Lies as the scene for the big helicopter/car chase, would look pretty awesome!

D351 · 05-07-2012, 06:26 AM

Two towns I have in mind... Savannah, GA just because I live there and know the layout and Detroit because I've lived there and there are areas that I wouldn't send a manned anything in to deal with... Maybe Flint too, for similar reasons.

J. Durr · 05-08-2012, 05:15 PM

It might be interesting to map not just cities but any area that might produce interesting terrain. The Mississippi Delta, Holland, Siberia...

woodchuck · 05-08-2012, 06:08 PM

There's already a map of the San Francisco Bay Area on the Ogre page, I'm on the south west quarter. Remember it's double victory points for destroying your house. The Betuwe region of the Netherlands looks like a good place of a battle.

J. Durr · 05-09-2012, 06:19 PM

Is there a quick way to make a map like this? I mean an easy way to take a given map and drop an Ogre-scale hexgrid on it such that it is easy to create a map based on the original map in the map generator. I am not an image pro so maybe this is a non-brainer for people.

05-06-2012, 07:45 PM	#1
Toltrin Join Date: Mar 2008 Location: Oregon	Submit your personal maps of your home city in 1500m=1 hex format here! Here is Portland, Oregon. This is my submission and your submission does not have to be exact or have to be converted. Just that it's scaled correctly and be interesting to play. Sometimes the best maps are the ones with history behind them... I was working on the Seattle map (where a factory is) but I didn't want to print out 20+ pages for the 1500m = 1 hex format. I could have done it in 4 pages if certain scaling solutions were found (like every unit had 1 range). On a humorous note check out this town... __________________ HCobb's OGRE Maker Yet another OGRE designer FJCestero OGRE Maker CP Alpha's new home My email Last edited by Toltrin; 05-06-2012 at 07:50 PM.

05-06-2012, 09:50 PM	#4
Luke Bunyip Join Date: Mar 2008 Location: The Kingdom of Insignificance	Re: Submit your personal maps of your home city in 1500m=1 hex format here! Map the town gates, rather than the town itself. What I call the periurban fringe. __________________ It's all very well to be told to act my age, but I've never been this old before...

05-07-2012, 12:42 AM	#6
JLV Join Date: Nov 2010 Location: Arizona	Re: Submit your personal maps of your home city in 1500m=1 hex format here! Really nice map of Portland. I just spent about 18 months in Oregon, and used to run up to Portland pretty regularly for various things. Your map brings back some fond memories of that. Thanks for sharing! Now, I think it's time to put a battalion of battlesuits in there and see if we can't burn us down some city! Yee Haa! :-) (Edited to add: I should map the Florida Keys (I spent five years there towards the end of my military career fighting the drug war), but it wouldn't work very well since most of the islands are nowhere near a mile across. Still, the Seven-Mile Bridge (it really is, you know -- seven miles from end to end), which was used in True Lies as the scene for the big helicopter/car chase, would look pretty awesome! Last edited by JLV; 05-07-2012 at 05:07 PM.

05-07-2012, 06:26 AM	#7
D351 MIB Join Date: Oct 2007 Location: Negaunee, MI	Re: Submit your personal maps of your home city in 1500m=1 hex format here! Two towns I have in mind... Savannah, GA just because I live there and know the layout and Detroit because I've lived there and there are areas that I wouldn't send a manned anything in to deal with... Maybe Flint too, for similar reasons.

05-08-2012, 05:15 PM	#8
J. Durr Join Date: Jun 2007 Location: Hex G1-1508	Re: Submit your personal maps of your home city in 1500m=1 hex format here! It might be interesting to map not just cities but any area that might produce interesting terrain. The Mississippi Delta, Holland, Siberia...

05-08-2012, 06:08 PM	#9
woodchuck Join Date: Dec 2007	Re: Submit your personal maps of your home city in 1500m=1 hex format here! There's already a map of the San Francisco Bay Area on the Ogre page, I'm on the south west quarter. Remember it's double victory points for destroying your house. The Betuwe region of the Netherlands looks like a good place of a battle.

05-09-2012, 06:19 PM	#10
J. Durr Join Date: Jun 2007 Location: Hex G1-1508	Re: Submit your personal maps of your home city in 1500m=1 hex format here! Is there a quick way to make a map like this? I mean an easy way to take a given map and drop an Ogre-scale hexgrid on it such that it is easy to create a map based on the original map in the map generator. I am not an image pro so maybe this is a non-brainer for people.