Germany

yes good looking now

[b]re-worked the outlay and chanhed the design of the mini map; still playing around with designs & colors. i think the banners add more color diversity and make the map a bit more authentic. [spoiler][img]https://i.imgur.com/TUwTb1p.jpeg [/img] [/spoiler]

[img]https://i.imgur.com/W7CQOnJ.jpeg [/img] chanhed design sloghtly & added shaded frame, now the map doesnt look like as if its "floating" in the air.

[b]updated bonuses:[/b] [spoiler][img]https://i.imgur.com/lWMhXFH.jpeg [/img] [/spoiler] gonna make the necessary changes on east russ and japan map in the next days. thx for commenting!

GERMAMY MIDLE SIZE MAP (follows real regions and territory borders): thick red border is optiojal. coukd he added for game play reasons to divide big bavaria. [spoiler][img]https://i.imgur.com/muOJwFI.jpeg [/img][/spoiler] LARGE MAP UPDATE: [spoiler][img]https://i.imgur.com/NCyo8E6.jpeg [/img] [/spoiler]

.... btw, i can reduce the map by 2-5 territories by merging/deleting them.

okay, made some design development. need to work on opacy a bit and connect the pics with each other properly, but i think i am getting nearer to the final result. [spoiler][img]https://i.imgur.com/I5OvmLO.jpeg [/img] [/spoiler] i mostly took pics from important events (30 years war, hambacher celebration), persons in german history (friedrich barbarossa, karl the great), symbols of german national awakening 1840 ("germania" paintings and monuments) and some nice german architecture (framework buildings and something else) to make the map more "atmospheric" and interesting to look at. i think thismap has better design, the other germany map is a bit too cheesy. i aimed to give the map a rustic/vintage/gotic/late middle ages till 1900 look.

looks really good

[quote=Hoodlum]looks really good[/quote] ok, i think its finshed: [spoiler][img]https://i.imgur.com/rmeVeiN.jpeg [/img] [/spoiler] i can also remove some territories to make it fit a middle sized map even more: [spoiler][img]https://i.imgur.com/Irr1HhJ.jpeg [/img] [/spoiler] playable?

[spoiler][img]https://i.imgur.com/fqw9shq.jpeg [/img] [/spoiler] Here is an image with circles on. I put them in a way that they dont interfere with images and names. Since Bishop is inactive and Hoodlum is out of time, it would he cool of somebody else from the mapping team would find interest in testing the map. Moreover: Its a middle size map - exactly the size we lack on thesite. PS: The cyan region in the south-east is supposed to me called "Franken". In reality its politically part of bavaria, but as much as i know,it has a slightly distinct regional culture from bavaria. Also it makes sense from gameplay point of view to half bavaria

I was recently thinking about the following: Some territories can be covered just by 1 (red) and/or 2 (green) other territories and so, if you play assassimation, then you can hide/block somebody there. Is it an issue or not? I am asking cuz i never play these settings. If this is an issue, i can add additional connections. It woukd work fine for coastal territories and/or i can add some kind of a airport between northern most and southern most territories. I also noticed that there are 47 terriories and our middle size maps are max. 45 territories big, as much as i know. So this map is "borderline" middle sized. [spoiler][img]https://i.imgur.com/PZc4nu5.jpeg [/img] [/spoiler] PS: Maybe slmebody wanna test the map?

[spoiler][img]https://i.imgur.com/eOaI8dH.jpeg [/img] [/spoiler] [b]42 territories instead of 47![/b] [b]13 regions[/b]

[spoiler][img]https://i.imgur.com/I7mdkqt.jpeg [/img] [/spoiler] [i][u][b]42 territories and 13 regions, middle size map ready to play ! ! ! [/b][/u][/i]

[quote=Dima]okay, made some design development. need to work on opacy a bit and connect the pics with each other properly, but i think i am getting nearer to the final result. [spoiler][img]https://i.imgur.com/I5OvmLO.jpeg [/img] [/spoiler] i mostly took pics from important events (30 years war, hambacher celebration), persons in german history (friedrich barbarossa, karl the great), symbols of german national awakening 1840 ("germania" paintings and monuments) and some nice german architecture (framework buildings and something else) to make the map more "atmospheric" and interesting to look at. i think thismap has better design, the other germany map is a bit too cheesy. i aimed to give the map a rustic/vintage/gotic/late middle ages till 1900 look. [/quote] i prefer and appreciate the clean lines, i think that's why i liked it, the art pops more. the lines remind me of psymonstarks Balkan Peninsula map of thick and clean. my eyes are already playing up (started wearing prescription glasses) and the new look is extra buggy on my eyes, it doesn't enhance anything for me or give it any character you might have went for, in my opinion. having just found out that I have 10% Germanic DNA, i'm a bit more interested in it now lol edit.. also, we have to avoid any affiliation with official RISK, you have worded it somewhat with Risiko Karte in it's title. I'm assuming it means Risk Cartography or Risk Map

[quote=Hoodlum][quote=Dima]okay, made some design development. need to work on opacy a bit and connect the pics with each other properly, but i think i am getting nearer to the final result. [spoiler][img]https://i.imgur.com/I5OvmLO.jpeg [/img] [/spoiler] i mostly took pics from important events (30 years war, hambacher celebration), persons in german history (friedrich barbarossa, karl the great), symbols of german national awakening 1840 ("germania" paintings and monuments) and some nice german architecture (framework buildings and something else) to make the map more "atmospheric" and interesting to look at. i think thismap has better design, the other germany map is a bit too cheesy. i aimed to give the map a rustic/vintage/gotic/late middle ages till 1900 look. [/quote] i prefer and appreciate the clean lines, i think that's why i liked it, the art pops more. the lines remind me of psymonstarks Balkan Peninsula map of thick and clean. my eyes are already playing up (started wearing prescription glasses) and the new look is extra buggy on my eyes, it doesn't enhance anything for me or give it any character you might have went for, in my opinion. having just found out that I have 10% Germanic DNA, i'm a bit more interested in it now lol edit.. also, we have to avoid any affiliation with official RISK, you have worded it somewhat with Risiko Karte in it's title. I'm assuming it means Risk Cartography or Risk Map[/quote] [spoiler][img]https://i.imgur.com/7DUe2Nq.jpeg [/img] [/spoiler] Alright, i updated the map with normal borders and removed the "risk" from the title. Btw, having germanic DNA doesnt mean to be german and vice versa. Germanic tribes migrated to central europe which was inhabited by celts (la tene and hallstatt cultures) and slavs. These populations were culturally assimilated into germanic tribes. So the contemporaty german population is a mix of these three groups. Its more likely you got your germanic DNA from your english/irish/scottish ancestor. The british islands were inhabitated by celtic tribes then they experienced wave of germanic migrations (angels, saxons, jutes, danes, norwegians). These germanic tribes brough germanic DNA on the british islands. So since you are from NZ and its population is a mix of Maori & Brits, its likely that you got your germanic DNA through Britain. https://www.eupedia.com/europe/Haplogroup_R1a_Y-DNA.shtml Check out this site. It has many good infos about DNA and genetics of european populations. If your male ancestor is the one of euro and specifically germanic descent, then you most likely are I1, R1a or R1b