Campaign Map screenies

**Gustav II Adolf** · 08-21-2008, 00:25

Well, this is not major for me but i just think there is an emty feel with less detail. The colors are a bit more cartoonish and cities seem not to be well integrated with their environment. I would love to get drawn into a vibrating alive environment also in the campignmap not just in battles. However, playability overrides everything. I don´t want clutter.

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**TB666** · 08-21-2008, 00:30

I just hope the empty province will provide less sieges and more field battles.

**Warmaster Horus** · 08-21-2008, 00:34

Discoman, I think those lines represent lakes and bodies of water.

**Belgolas** · 08-21-2008, 00:46

I am impressed. I like the idea of instead of having a province for easch city you kind of get more of a region province. Like London being the capital and smaller cities areound it. I like the new government system and hopefully a new trade system. I think there will be less armies so we don't have 20 stacks attacking a country. So now we might have 1 or 2 armies per region by the looks of it. I love the graphics and art style of the map. Hate the building pictures though.

**darrin42** · 08-21-2008, 19:30

I'l be the bad one so lol...I kinda think it...Well...lol. it looks a bit cheesy! At least thats my opinion. The Citys, look tiny, And I guess i just expected it to look diff. Certainly a lot of detail though, And i wont let this stop me from buying it lol...but does anyone else think, it kinda looks just a little weird?

**PBI** · 08-21-2008, 19:53

Certainly, I agree it looks a little odd. I'm not decided yet as to whether I like it or not. It's just that so long as it looks more or less OK, I don't really mind, since the campaign map isn't the part of the game that is supposed to look spectacular.

From reading the TWcenter thread linked in the OP, I get the impression that these screenies were leaked rather than deliberately released (other previews at the moment seem to be saying the campaign map isn't being shown as it isn't finished), so this might not be the final version.

**JFC** · 10-08-2008, 16:09

Dunno how I'm gonna get an army from essex to india via sea...

**Martok** · 10-08-2008, 17:22

I imagine you'll do so by sailing around Africa.

Although how *that* will work has yet to be revealed. It's been speculated that perhaps ships will simply "disappear" off the map for a number of turns before "reappearing" in the Indian Ocean, but no details on that have been released thus far.