Geography in RTW

[Oaty]

I'm not sure if you noticed, but the castles in MTW were placed at the location of the regional capitals. So the castle in Wessex is where London is, etc.

That old game!!!!!!!!!!!


They could only put so much into the campaign map. Look at the volcanos, if they were going for gegraphical correctness, you would not even be able to see the volcanoes unless you really zommed in. At that time there were only a few commonly used routes across the alps. So they made the Alps 1 big mountain and gave it a few passes. If you shrunk the size of th earth down to a basketball, Mt. everest would'nt even be as big as 1 of it's dimples and probably would be about as smooth as a lopsided beachball.

[Ellesthyan]

Lylebaeum is placed correctly according to my historical atlas, and so is the majority of the Greek and Italian cities. A glaring mistake is the location of Sinope, and I'm not very fond of the 'swampiness' of the Netherlands... But all in all, I think they tried to reach accuracy everywhere, except for some 'obscure' barbarian parts of the map, where they went for gameplay instead.

[MacBeth]

Umm - actually the capital of Wessex was Winchester.