[Final] Lemberg (4)

Hello friends!  :D

As I announced when I closed the thread of my previous mapping project for EF, there will be and is a new project I am working on, since yesterday when I started working on it  I reached a progress of ca. 50%.
The maps name is, as you can see in the subject, yet unknown, I'm relying on the communities fantasy here. Its size is 224x448 and I'm not sure if it will be a 2p or 4p map (testing will tell). Enough facts for now, here comes a short story that came up when I had the idea of the map:

It's mid-1941. The Wehrmacht progresses with its Blitzkrieg tactics and Soviet retreat is a pure chaos. However, trying to delay the German march onto [insert important Soviet city here], the Red Army keeps constructing improvised defenses and falls back when the enemy starts to overrun these in-a-hurry constructed defensive lines. The last drawback led the Red Army into the once beautiful village [insert maps name here], that suffered heavy bombing by both Luftwaffe and German Artillery. In the east of the city, the Red Army regroups, supported by a tank battalion that arrived on the flight. They will use their improvised defenses again to let the Wehrmacht find it a hard nut to crack and strike back afterwards with the full strenght of the tank battalion.
There are not many roads on this map but a railroad that leads from east to west (I'll probably use this as supply line for one of the teams).
Additionally, I plan to use this map for my EF artwork..

Enough the words, here are some screenshots:

[size=3]Update no. 1

Map overview


Area near starting position 1


View from straing position 1


View down from on of the VP hills (western hill)


Market and train station


The towns pond near the central square


Some wheat fields


Most of the village


View on the western VP hill


A small shed next to one of the remaining 'islands' of the pine forest


The western VP hill (unfinished)


The main street leading into the village


One of the numerous farms


A little channel leading away from the pond with a bridge connecting two farms


[size=3]Update no. 2

75% done.


Yes, another farm (because you just can't get enough of them :P)


View from Starting Position 2 (meant to be the Axis')


The railroad. Damned, you see something unfinished there..


Some private graves. Rest in peace, comrades.


Fields, fields. fields..


Country roads... take me home...


I decided to let the main road continue past the train station


Todays progress from above...


...and from the side (western VP hill)


[size=3]Update no. 3

100% done.


You need to cross that ford in order to get to the lumbermill.. At least by car..


The eastern VP hill, featuring a little ruin. Old glory..


Huh? Yet another farm?


The lumbermill. If you wondered where all the lumbered wood has gone..


There's also wood harvest on this hill. Comrade Stalin needs it!


"Vasili! Load that wood up!"


Dense grass. Actually, it's been a long time since someone lived there..


"Hauptmann, ze train haz arrived to bring us replacements!"


Progress!


[size=3]Final update - no. 4

Sector Layout


Strelky rushing the train station


T-34 Tank Rider assault!


"Waiting for the Axis, to march into the trap..."


"20 more and fire!"


"Artillery is the god of war!"


Loading screen.








Have fun playing my map! :D

Last edited November 30, 2012 at 1:44 PM by MaxiKing6

...What happened to your previous map, Maxi? :'(

It's gone - but not forever. Just wasn't in the mood to work on it. With my brand new idea, I did 50% of a MP map in just TWO DAYS! :P

Well, this map is nice an' all, but i just can't get excited for it when your previous project was abandoned... :'(

Because it looked like Australia or because you don't like if people don't finish what they begin?

How can i get excited for this map, when you will probably just scrap it before finishing it? ;)

I'll finish it, I promise. With more than half of the map done, there's enough motivation for me to finish it.
BTW: Damage to the village and defenses will be added later on, I just want the map to look like there have been no fightings until now.

Good idea. ;)

Looks Great!  ;D

What about 'Lviv' ?

Goober wrote:
Looks Great!  ;D

Thanks! :)

cephalos wrote:
What about 'Lviv' ?

You like names that are hard to pronounce, don't you? :P
Lviv doesn't sound bad, but I'll collect more suggestions.

I don't even know what number that is... :-\

Yeah, I do... sometimes when it's not connected with my studies  ::)

It looks like great competition map. Carry on.

pariah wrote:
I don't even know what number that is... :-\

Explain yourself.

cephalos wrote:
It looks like great competition map. Carry on.

Thank you very much.

Quite simply, i'm not good with Roman numerals. I think 'L' is 100, right? Or 1000? :-\

L is 50 and C is 100 iirc.

XL = 40 (-10 + 50)
LX = 60 (50 + 10)

LVIV = not a roman number.

Last edited June 21, 2011 at 5:04 PM by blackbishop

I - 1
V - 5
X - 10
L - 50
C - 100
D - 500
M - 1000

However, Lviv is a towns name and not a Roman numeral ;)

Ah, thanks guys. I've never been any good with numbers. Or language. Or numbers using language... :-[

pariah wrote:
Ah, thanks guys. I've never been any good with numbers. Or language. Or numbers using language... :-[

Never mind. LVIV as a Roman numeral would be 59, however the correct Roman numeral for 59 is LIX.

I think I will call it Lviv or much better the German version "Lemberg".

Last edited June 22, 2011 at 11:03 AM by MaxiKing6

So have you decided on a player count yet? I'm leaning towards 2 at the moment.

I would like to upload the map for you to look at it using WB, but you know the problem..
Everything may change, I'm flexible with layout and player bases. For now, there is only enough space for one base.

I figured it would be something like this:

This is exactly how it is at the moment.

I need your opinion once again. If I include rocks in my map, I'd like to know if I should use the light or the dark grey rocks. Comparison:

Last edited June 25, 2011 at 7:41 PM by MaxiKing6

Comparison. ;)

I like both, but i think the dark 1 is the best. Maybe you could mix it up a bit?

I know it's comparison, just didn't think about who to write it when I did.

I can't mix them up, these are different models and the option of changing the tint isn't available to them. I won't use many rocks, just here and there some. If I'm in the mood (that is certainly the case ATM), I can finish Lemberg this evening.

How. ;) ;D

I didn't mean changing the color; I just meant using some light, and some dark.

That might work as well, but now I'll try to avoid rocks at first.

I would say dark, definatly.

Goober wrote:
I would say dark, definatly.

Agreed!

Cranialwizard wrote:

Goober wrote:
I would say dark, definatly.

Agreed!

1+

evilSpike wrote:

Cranialwizard wrote:

Goober wrote:
I would say dark, definatly.

Agreed!

1+

1-

light definatly

Last edited June 26, 2011 at 11:18 AM by Killar

Hard to arrange that everyone of you is satified then.. Maybe I'll just leave the rocks out. There would have been just a few, anyway. Progress is around 75% right now.

Edit:
Update no. 2 is finally there! :D

I'm lovin' it!

P.S. Don't eat McDonalds. It's bad for you.

Ok, I'll consider that.
Added poll.

I can't see how 2v2 could fit... :-\

Enlarging the free space around starting positions ;)

Yeah, i guess, but i can't tell how much room there is for buildings...

It will be enough.

So if you go with 2v2, which layout do you think is best? I think 1, considering the Victory Point placement.

You're right about that, but nothing's final, there's still time to change VP locations etc.

I must admit: Maxi is better mapper than me  :)

Well, i don't know about that - You're both great mappers. ;)

cephalos wrote:
I must admit: Maxi is better mapper than me  :)

Ceph, mate. It's not about better or worse. I hope both you and my map make their way into EF so people have fun playing both maps. You can't compare that. Pariah is right here one more time. :) Thank you, though.

'You're tearing me apart, cepha!' ;D

Ok, I take the poll as an answer an make Lemberg a 2v2 map. It's done so far, I only need to add destruction and defensives and as I said free some room for additional starting positions. The map will go in internal beta testing, if I get the go ahead by my testers, I will release the map for public use and hopefully for its possible inclusion into EF. :)

You'll also see Progress update no. 3 in some minutes ;)

Here is a little picture I created to sketch my progress:

Last edited June 28, 2011 at 9:44 PM by MaxiKing6

Sweet! How did you make that slideshow, man?

I used a little tool called 'GiftedMotion'. Selected the 11 progress pics and set the time every picture stays to one second. Taddaahhh  ;)

Cool. Is that with Photoshop?

No. it's just GiftedMotion. Google it ;)