Fantasy World Map Help

Started by Nosher, 02 November 2015, 02:39:34 PM

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Nosher

I am useless at IT.

I would really like to be able to have a fantasy world map for my warband campaign. Nothing too flash, something fairly basic so people can follow my narratives and batreps.

I'd also like it to be simple enough so that I could add battle symbols to show in which kingdoms battles have been fought.

I could knock up a hand drawn map I guess? Get out the trusty laminator and use pens to mark battles which I could then scan and add as an image when needed....

Is there any kindly soul out there that does this for fun that could knock something up based on my ideas?
I don't think my wife likes me very much, when I had a heart attack she wrote for an ambulance.

Frank Carson

Ithoriel

There are 100 types of people in the world, those who understand binary and those who can work from incomplete data

Shedman

you could have a look at Berthier - https://sites.google.com/site/berthiercampaignmanager/home

Here is something I did 15 years ago for GW's Mighty Empires - bits of it don't work now - and life's too long to fix it

http://www.millicheap.freeserve.co.uk/MightyEmpires/

Essentially it's a load of images that are displayed when a specific turn is picked

The images can be found in http://www.millicheap.freeserve.co.uk/MightyEmpires/Images

I created a base map with towns etc and then every turn I painstakingly added symbols to the base map to show moves etcs and saved it as that turn's map

I've not found an easier way of doing it

I'm currently working on a web version where you can drag armies from one area to another

Chris Pringle

I am running a campaign with a fantasy world map.
I just made it in Word mostly using the Insert, Shapes function.
Provinces are drawn with Freeform. You can add Patterns or colours if you want to show terrain etc.
For the name of each province I used Insert, Text Box.
Ownership of a province is indicated by a Square in the colours of the owning faction with a letter added.
Attacks, raids etc are shown by arrows in the faction colour, different outlines according to the type of action.
Battles shown by Insert, Shape, Explosion in the colour of the defeated faction.
Special events such as Dragons shown by a suitable symbol found on the web and stuck in a Square.

It's pretty easy to update each turn, drag shapes around the map, copy and paste them etc as needed.

Chris

NeilCFord

Hexographer - http://www.hexographer.com

You will probably find that the free version will do exactly what you want, so no need to buy the pro version. It's a tool popular amongst role players. And much cheaper than Campaign Cartographer.

- Neil.