Thermopylae

by **muy_thaiguy** on Thu Nov 08, 2007 11:51 am

Strider24 wrote:Units Numbers
Spartans 300
Mantineans 500
Tegeans 500
Arcadian Orchomenos 120
Other Arcadians 1,000
Corinthians 400
Phlians 200
Mycenaeans 80
Thespians 700
Thebans 400
Phocians 1,000
Opuntian Locrians 13
Total 5,213

Here is the total troop count for the greeks at the battle, troops not ships.

Why not make these some territories and colour the spartans in red and give them a +1 bonus when held?

Also why not make the battle larger to include the fleet with a small mini map zoomed in on the pass with the spartans?

Persian Fleet had around 1000 ships, Greek Fleet 200. Most of it was Athenian, though I believe I heard somewhere that there were some Spartan sailors on a couple Greek vessels.

by **aj95** on Wed Nov 21, 2007 11:51 am

yeah!!!!!!!!!!! :!:

by **Strider24** on Wed Nov 21, 2007 1:07 pm

Also to go with that a -1 bonus for holding the storm of where a large porportion of the Persian ships were destroyed.

by **muy_thaiguy** on Mon Nov 26, 2007 1:03 am

Any updates?

by **Strider24** on Sun Dec 02, 2007 10:06 am

No I really wanna see somone make this map maybe cairnswk or another map maker?

by **kagetora** on Sun Dec 02, 2007 3:55 pm

sorry for inactivity, school started up, and I havent had anytime. Im gonna get back on it

by **kagetora** on Mon Dec 03, 2007 12:24 am

http://img412.imageshack.us/my.php?imag ... laeng7.gif

beginning territories, will add more

by **Telvannia** on Mon Dec 03, 2007 2:57 am

to save on clicking.

But you will need to produce a bigger draft. It is hard to see and read this map.

by **muy_thaiguy** on Mon Dec 03, 2007 10:36 am

From what I can see of it, it looks pretty good. Just make it a little bigger.

by **wcaclimbing** on Mon Dec 03, 2007 4:37 pm

Looking ok for a map. just needs more...

perhaps add in a bunch of ships in the oceans.

by **kagetora** on Tue Dec 04, 2007 12:43 am

right now im just starting with territories, details, continents, bonuses will be added later.

by **kagetora** on Tue Dec 04, 2007 1:29 am

http://img152.imageshack.us/my.php?imag ... webfr4.gif

update, more territories and proposed mountains

and its bigger! :wink:

by **whitestazn88** on Tue Dec 04, 2007 1:43 am

the map seems to be lacking the number of territories id feel necessary for a battle as epic as thermopylae... but i mean, if you can get it done, id still play

by **Strider24** on Tue Dec 04, 2007 1:59 pm

But again that takes the focus away from thermopylae and more onto greece so either zoom in on the battle or have a minimap.

by **kagetora** on Tue Dec 04, 2007 8:57 pm

ok, i decided to make a map w/in a map (like in bamboo jack) for the Thermopylae territory

ill post it soon

by **Herakilla** on Tue Dec 04, 2007 9:23 pm

i would suggest doing it like the way battle of actium is done and use hexagons or something it would be cool and then you can just have a small pass with the spartans blocking it and you can make different bonuses within the spartans that would depend on captains (you would have to make captains up and names as well)

then you can have more hexagons or whatever being the attacking forces. the ones in the back can be immortals since they attacked last and the ones in front are the other guys and once again you can divide these up into bonuses probably by the troop's origin

any1 understand what i tried to lay out if not ill try and make a crappy 5 min draft of my example wince i think it would be able to show the battle of thermopylae the way it happened

also if you wanted you could have, further down the path, the camps of the persian armies and ships to take as well including a part were the maelstrom occured

by **kagetora** on Tue Dec 04, 2007 11:17 pm

i get what ur saying, but i personally never cared for the actium map

http://img364.imageshack.us/my.php?imag ... webri2.gif

this is a rough draft of thermopylae (to be contained within the territory, thermopylae)

http://img360.imageshack.us/my.php?imag ... webpm9.gif

this is another draft for the overall map

http://img400.imageshack.us/my.php?imag ... webqw0.gif

proposed regions for the main map
white=northern citystates
grey=central citystates
dark pink=peloponese citystates
red=persian forces
light pink=greek forces (accidentally colored Thermopylae with this, I think Thermopylae might be its own region)

by **kagetora** on Wed Dec 05, 2007 6:26 pm

should this be moved to the map foundry forum now?

once i am done with the drafts, im gonna let others take it on, adding details, eye-candy, stuff like that for the main map. i will continue working on the minimap