My Mapmaking Odyssey, Part II

Mark Mahaffey

(West2)

United States
Columbia
South Carolina

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(Part I (personal projects) may be found here: http://www.boardgamegeek.com/geeklist.php3?action=view&listi... )

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Here is a look at the real-life, bona fide, actual mapmaking projects I've been able to be involved in so far. A huge thanks goes out to Adam Starkweather, Mark Simonitch, Neil Randall, Richard Berg, Brian Youse, Ken Dingley, Jerry Taylor, and Gene Billingsley for thinking highly enough of my work to offer me the chance to work on these! Been loving it, and can't wait to see what I'll get to make next...

Hope you enjoy these as much as I enjoy making them!

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Edited Wed Nov 18, 2009 4:09 pm
Posted Sun Feb 11, 2007 4:26 pm

1. Board Game: Bradley's D-Day [Average Rating:7.00 Unranked]

Mark Mahaffey

(West2)

United States
Columbia
South Carolina

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Posted Mon Jan 31, 2011 7:30 pm

Robert Ellis

(bob48)

United Kingdom
Newcastle upon Tyne

One of the best wargames map's I've ever seen (IMHO).

Posted Tue Sep 13, 2011 7:33 pm
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Mark Mahaffey

(West2)

United States
Columbia
South Carolina

Cheers, Robert. The finished map (which contains additional edits and charts) was just printed last month - the game should be shipping in the very near future.

Posted Tue Sep 13, 2011 9:56 pm
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Robert Ellis

(bob48)

United Kingdom
Newcastle upon Tyne

It would be nice to think that the same treatment could be given to Monty's D-Day as well

Posted Tue Sep 13, 2011 11:14 pm
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Mark Mahaffey

(West2)

United States
Columbia
South Carolina

There was discussion of that - it will probably appear at some point...

Posted Wed Sep 14, 2011 1:24 am
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2. Board Game: Lost Battles [Average Rating:8.47 Overall Rank:1386]

Mark Mahaffey

(West2)

United States
Columbia
South Carolina

The strategic map for Lost Battles, based on Ptolemy's world map...

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Posted Thu Jan 6, 2011 5:41 pm

3. Board Game: Birth of a Legend [Average Rating:7.12 Unranked]

Mark Mahaffey

(West2)

United States
Columbia
South Carolina

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Posted Thu Jan 6, 2011 5:41 pm

4. Board Game Publisher: Turning Point Simulations

Mark Mahaffey

(West2)

United States
Columbia
South Carolina

The first four of twenty-one maps planned for decisive battles in history. The challenge here is creating an integrated look that still has period character for each campaign...

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Posted Mon Jan 3, 2011 7:51 pm

Mark Mahaffey

(West2)

United States
Columbia
South Carolina

Edited Mon Jan 31, 2011 7:32 pm
Posted Wed Jan 12, 2011 4:04 pm
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5. Board Game: Lost Battles [Average Rating:8.47 Overall Rank:1386]

Mark Mahaffey

(West2)

United States
Columbia
South Carolina

Set of 5" geomorphic tiles for reconstructing ancient battlefields...

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Posted Tue Dec 14, 2010 11:39 pm

Bob

(Ashitaka)

United States

Nebraska

In a man-to-man fight, the winner is he who has one more round in his magazine.

Experience teaches us that it is much easier to prevent an enemy from posting themselves than it is to dislodge them after they have got possession.

Eagerly waiting to give this game a try. Even though the price is up there a bit, it looks really promising for Ancient Wargamers! cool

Posted Wed Dec 15, 2010 12:15 am
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Panayiotis Zinoviadis

(ZiNOS)

Greece
Ioannina

Best tiles for ancient battles up to now.... best!

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Mark Mahaffey

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United States
Columbia
South Carolina

Thanks!

Posted Wed Jan 12, 2011 2:28 pm
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David Murray

(TrotskyTrotsky)

United Kingdom

Received this game this week - very nice artwork. Counters and tiles complement each other very well and the visual presentation of a battle is excellent. Thanks Mark.

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6. Board Game: The Dark Valley [Average Rating:9.00 Unranked]

Mark Mahaffey

(West2)

United States
Columbia
South Carolina

Playtest map for Ted Raicer's forthcoming East Front game.

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Posted Thu Aug 26, 2010 3:45 pm

7. Board Game: Codeword Cromwell: The German Invasion of England, 8 June 1940 [Average Rating:0.00 Unranked]

Mark Mahaffey

(West2)

United States
Columbia
South Carolina

The environs of the village of Birkham Stokes, Sussex... for Fifth Column's forthcoming solitaire game.

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Posted Tue Apr 27, 2010 9:00 pm

8. Board Game: The War: Europe 1939-1945 [Average Rating:0.00 Unranked]

Mark Mahaffey

(West2)

United States
Columbia
South Carolina

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Posted Tue Feb 16, 2010 10:20 pm

Luca Ficarelli

(zukov II)

fantastic map!!

I hope to see this game asap! I sought more information about this game but I haven't found anything... cry

Posted Tue Apr 6, 2010 2:06 pm
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Mark Mahaffey

(West2)

United States
Columbia
South Carolina

The game is just about to be submitted to publishers, so more will be forthcoming if and when it is picked up - there's some info on the game's page here on the Geek...

Posted Tue Apr 27, 2010 9:03 pm
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Ernie Copley

(e_copley)

United States
Cumberland Center
Maine

Hello Luca - sorry to be so late responding to you. I haven't been checking into Boardgamegeek very often. The artist, Mark Mahaffey and I, are planning to upload some sample files for the counters as soon as we finish them (in process right now). Btw, I'll be demo'ing this game at MonsterCon in Tempe AZ June 1st to June 6th. Hope you can be there

- ernie copley

Posted Thu May 6, 2010 9:19 pm
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Mark Mahaffey

(West2)

United States
Columbia
South Carolina

The project was picked up by Compass Games! Congrats, Ernie!

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9. Board Game: King Philip's War [Average Rating:6.98 Overall Rank:2881]

Mark Mahaffey

(West2)

United States
Columbia
South Carolina

Borders were still somewhat fluid back then, of course!

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Edited Tue Aug 31, 2010 4:28 pm
Posted Wed Nov 18, 2009 4:09 pm

10. Board Game: No Peace Without Spain! [Average Rating:7.83 Overall Rank:2913]

Mark Mahaffey

(West2)

United States
Columbia
South Carolina

This was actually the very first map I started working on in my career, and through various and sundry circumstances it's back in my hands.

The terrible original:

Preorder here: http://compassgames.com/show/product/no_peace_without_spain

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Edited Fri Nov 6, 2009 6:21 pm
Posted Fri Nov 6, 2009 6:02 pm

Mark Mahaffey

(West2)

United States
Columbia
South Carolina

Final: http://www.west2productions.com/Mapology/_NEW/Map_NPWS.html

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11. Board Game: Rebel Raiders on the High Seas [Average Rating:8.50 Unranked]

Mark Mahaffey

(West2)

United States
Columbia
South Carolina

This is fun, I did the undermap for this one and Mark Simonitch edited & put the gameplay materials on top... hopefully a best-of-both-worlds scenario.

Preorder here: http://www.gmtgames.com/p-238-rebel-raiders-on-the-high-seas...

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Edited Fri Nov 6, 2009 6:21 pm
Posted Thu Jun 4, 2009 10:50 pm

12. Board Game: Zulu! [Average Rating:6.10 Unranked]

Mark Mahaffey

(West2)

United States
Columbia
South Carolina

A new playtest map for Richard Berg's game on the defense of Rorke's Drift...

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Posted Thu Mar 19, 2009 3:29 pm

Rob Rob

(Robrob)

United States
La Mesa
California

Very nice. Guessing by the "zones" is it going to be a block game?

I wonder how useful the "fog of war" feature would be. Every Zulu block would simply represent another buttload of Zulus! laugh

Posted Thu Jun 4, 2009 4:43 am
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13. Board Game: A Most Dangerous Time: Japan in Chaos, 1570-1584 [Average Rating:7.42 Overall Rank:1343]

Mark Mahaffey

(West2)

United States
Columbia
South Carolina

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Posted Tue Mar 24, 2009 2:44 pm

Dave O

(Drenon88)

United States
Cleveland
Ohio

I think this is the nicest looking map I've ever seen! I almost bought the game just so I could frame and hang it! thumbsup

Posted Mon Feb 21, 2011 4:56 am
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Mark Mahaffey

(West2)

United States
Columbia
South Carolina

Cheers, Dave.
(And, go for it!)

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14. Board Game: 1805: Sea of Glory [Average Rating:7.60 Overall Rank:1395]

Mark Mahaffey

(West2)

United States
Columbia
South Carolina

Just finished up the board for GMT's forthcoming game on the year leading up to Trafalgar...

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Posted Fri Feb 27, 2009 1:33 pm

15. Board Game: Spartacus [Average Rating:6.76 Overall Rank:2762]

Mark Mahaffey

(West2)

United States
Columbia
South Carolina

Finishing up this rather complex map for Spartacus. Tried to keep everything separate through overlaid sheets of paper on the map, think it turned out quite well.

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Posted Fri Jun 20, 2008 4:17 pm

Charles F.

(charlesf)

Germany
Berlin

I like the textures. Nicely done. Pleasing to the eye.

I'm less enamoured with the font used for the province names. I'd prefer a more classical font like AUGUSTUS as I consider those more legible and more fitting.

My main beef with the map relates to the province borders being drowned out by the squiggly space connection lines. I think the provinces need to stand out more.

Personally I really like how the Hannibal map is done in this regard. Space connections are straight and province borders curved. A good contrast.

Furthermore, the busy nature of the space connections makes it harder to grasp the strategic situation. Straight or very smooth lines are imo the way to go. Same bothers me with the COM map as well, I have to admit.

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16. Board Game: Barren Victory II: The Battle of Chickamauga [Average Rating:0.00 Unranked]

Mark Mahaffey

(West2)

United States
Columbia
South Carolina

Here's a look at where the map stands for this upcoming review of Chickamauga. Greatly expanded coverage area allows for more freedom and several earlier scenarios. Thanks to Dave Friedrichs for his help with the contour lines. Actually got to go out to Chickamauga last weekend and walk the ground, immensely helpful. For one thing you realize how small some of these landmark structures really were! Hope you like, I think it's a pretty successful attempt to blend complexity with aesthetics (esp. regarding seeing the contour lines through the woods).

An HD BV2 video preview I made: http://www.west2productions.com/Mapology/_NEW/Vid02.html
You can preorder here: http://www.multimanpublishing.com/preorder/viewGame.php?id=5...
Original Barren Victory map (1991): http://www.boardgamegeek.com/image/72832
Consimworld forum: http://talk.consimworld.com/WebX?13@192.HMBHd9lxl3C.7410415@...

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Edited Sun Jun 8, 2008 3:38 am
Posted Thu Sep 27, 2007 3:23 am

17. Board Game: Lincoln's War [Average Rating:8.25 Unranked]

Mark Mahaffey

(West2)

United States
Columbia
South Carolina

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Edited Sun Jun 8, 2008 5:07 am
Posted Sun Jun 8, 2008 4:53 am

Mark Mahaffey

(West2)

United States
Columbia
South Carolina

Latest version: http://www.west2productions.com/Mapology/_NEW/Map007.html

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18. Board Game: Where There Is Discord: War in the South Atlantic [Average Rating:8.23 Overall Rank:733]

Mark Mahaffey

(West2)

United States
Columbia
South Carolina

Fifth Column Games

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Edited Fri Nov 6, 2009 6:24 pm
Posted Mon Apr 14, 2008 1:56 pm

Barry Kendall

(Barry Kendall)

United States
Lebanon
Pennsylvania

This looks wonderful! Any preorder or release date info available?

Posted Mon Apr 14, 2008 5:15 pm
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Mark Mahaffey

(West2)

United States
Columbia
South Carolina

Thanks, Barry! Working on the website this week... and settling on a printer hopefully by the end of the month. Then we should be able to pin down a release date... thanks for the interest!

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19. Board Game: Clash of Monarchs [Average Rating:7.22 Overall Rank:1389]

Mark Mahaffey

(West2)

United States
Columbia
South Carolina

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Edited Sat Apr 26, 2008 10:56 pm
Posted Mon Apr 14, 2008 1:56 pm

Howard Posner

(hposner)

Australia
Brisbane
Queensland

Hi
Generally I love your maps, and the WTID board is glorious, albeit with a very big footprint, but I can't play Clash of Monarchs at all. The map has a series of chromatically similar greys, greens and browns on a like coloured background to depict nations, borders and areas, and the roads and tracks also use variants of the same palette. I agree it looks nice and eighteenth century but I'm mildly colour blind and this map throws me completely. In anything less than super bright light I just can't tell the borders/nations/roads apart.I played a session at Gencon Oz in Brisbane last week and gave up after a couple of hours of squinting at indistinguishable boxes.
I don't know if anyone else had had this problem, and I don't usually have any hassles with mapboard colours, so I thought it worth passing on to you.

Howard Posner

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20. Board Game: War of the Suns [Average Rating:0.00 Unranked]

Mark Mahaffey

(West2)

United States
Columbia
South Carolina

A vast map for Leonard To's upcoming monster on the Chinese War of Resistance (1937-1945). Really like how this one is shaping up - a lot of data to convey. but I really like some of the functional things here. Expecially that our four primary colors (red, green, blue, rust) lock perfectly into each side - in other words each of these colors always stand for one of the four player sides, everywhere.

You can preorder here: http://www.multimanpublishing.com/preorder/viewGame.php?id=4...
Consimworld forum: http://talk.consimworld.com/WebX?13@192.HMBHd9lxl3C.7410415@...

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Edited Fri Nov 6, 2009 6:26 pm
Posted Thu Sep 27, 2007 3:29 am

21. Board Game: Sekigahara: Unification of Japan [Average Rating:8.15 Overall Rank:288]

Mark Mahaffey

(West2)

United States
Columbia
South Carolina

I've got the opportunity to visit Japan once again, this time for GMT's upcoming P500 block game on the battle Sekigahara and the unification of Japan under Tokugawa. This is a look at the undermap (no charts or gameplay info yet) which I've antiqued in several new ways, most notably by graphically acknowledging the fold lines that will exist on the printed map. I hope I've turned this to advantage to heighten the period feel of the map while remaining subtle enough to not interfere with play. The twelve point compass is the traditional means of navigation in the Far East. Enjoy!

Publisher's game page: http://gmtgames.com/p-127-sekigahara.aspx
Consimworld forum: http://talk.consimworld.com/WebX?14@192.e7qJcuu532g.28@.1dd1...

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Edited Thu Sep 27, 2007 4:07 pm
Posted Tue Jun 12, 2007 3:38 pm

22. Board Game: The Wild West: The Range Wars of 19th Century America [Average Rating:5.75 Unranked]

Mark Mahaffey

(West2)

United States
Columbia
South Carolina

A playtest map I made for the game...

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Posted Thu Jun 12, 2008 12:31 am

23. Board Game: Kingdom of Heaven: The Crusader States 1097-1291 AD [Average Rating:8.05 Unranked]

Mark Mahaffey

(West2)

United States
Columbia
South Carolina

MMP's forthcoming CDG on the Crusader States, formerly known as Outremer. Looking forward to diving into the artwork for this one, probably with some illustration help from the ridiculously talented Niko Eskubi. This should be available for preorder soon, so keep a sharp eye...

You can preorder here: http://www.multimanpublishing.com/preorder/viewGame.php?id=5...
Consimworld forum: http://talk.consimworld.com/WebX?8@65.7fHTcUb3JFJ.0@.1dcf435...

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Edited Mon Nov 12, 2007 1:48 pm
Posted Sun Feb 11, 2007 3:40 pm

Charles F.

(charlesf)

Germany
Berlin

Well done indeed! I like the gritty look. Were it only for Alexander and this map, I think you'd be quickly becoming my favourite map artist.

Only changes I'd like to see changed:

- port symbols more visible
- tables more visible/readable (how about a semi-transparent background?)
- those tables etc. ought to have IMO a north-south orientation for consistency's sake and for equal usability for both sides
- yellow numbers box more medieval font & style
- How about a nice map border?
- small point: border of Aleppo entity ought to also be seen under Mosul box just as with the Edessa case
- Muslim and Frankish symbol look to my tastes a little to perfect, 3D-stylish, computery
- Can you bring back the Nile?

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M Stumptner

(M St)

Australia
Unspecified

Visually nice (as far as any map can go that is merely the background for an abstract black-and-white graph), but having the type of location (mountains, desert) completely covered up when a piece is placed there is a bad idea and makes for endless shuffling during play as players want to make sure. Something should be done with the shading or shape of those boxes.

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Mark Mahaffey

(West2)

United States
Columbia
South Carolina

Latest version online here:

Posted Thu Jun 4, 2009 4:09 am
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Charles F.

(charlesf)

Germany
Berlin

I like the new&improved map even better. Good choice of fonts and who doesn't love those period inset pictures and the Arabic calligraphy?

I think the roads also hit the sweet point. Not distractingly squiggly (as COM's are, to my mind), yet dented enough to give you that organic vibe.

Looks like you found a clever way to denote ports by putting the city name of ports into the surrounding sea and colouring the space border.

It appears that the game was streamlined since I last read the rules, as both desert and mountain spaces look the same. Good to have terrain difference highlighted outside the actual space border.

To use an American expression, I think you've hit a home run.

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Mark Mahaffey

(West2)

United States
Columbia
South Carolina

And the final version: http://www.west2productions.com/Mapology/_NEW/Map_KoH.html

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24. Board Game: Richard III: The Wars of the Roses [Average Rating:7.62 Overall Rank:428]

Mark Mahaffey

(West2)

United States
Columbia
South Carolina

I've been working with Jerry Taylor on the artwork for his forthcoming blockgame on the Wars of the Roses. Getting to do labels and cards as well, I think this is coming together quite well. This is the final playtest map, and is very close to what the end result will be like in terms of look and feel, though borders and heraldry may well change in the interim... Especially fun will be the Shakespearean quotes littering the heir cards. Hope you like it!

Publisher gamepage here: http://www.columbiagames.com/cgi-bin/query/cfg/zoom.cfg?prod...
Consimworld forum: http://talk.consimworld.com/WebX?50@152.fwqCcUCnisY.5@.1dd15...
Blockgames forum: http://www.blockgames.us/viewforum.php?f=24&sid=3bde913ec7fa...

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Posted Sun Feb 11, 2007 3:15 pm

Jeff Yeackle

(jyeackle)

United States
San Luis Obispo
California

Looks great! I love the new turn track. How about for those four borders instead of red maybe use a darker yellow (like the crown icons) for the folks that have trouble with red-green color blindness?

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25. Board Game: Blackbeard [Average Rating:6.21 Overall Rank:1651]

Mark Mahaffey

(West2)

United States
Columbia
South Carolina

I have a submission in for the artwork for GMT's forthcoming redux of Richard Berg's Blackbeard. A challenge to keep the mental image we have of pirate "color" while nodding to the historical drabness that more accurately characterized this time. At any rate, check it out, and let us know what you think. Also submitted cards, counters, shiplogs, and a box design.

You can preorder the game here: http://www.gmtgames.com/blackbeard/main.html
Consimworld forum: http://talk.consimworld.com/WebX?8@331.ybAPcpgsmkD.11@.1dd14...

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Posted Thu Nov 9, 2006 4:02 pm

Mark Mahaffey

(West2)

United States
Columbia
South Carolina

Here's a comment thread on the game artwork : http://www.boardgamegeek.com/thread/134262

Posted Thu Nov 9, 2006 4:08 pm
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A L D A R O N

(Aldaron)

United States
Boston
Massachusetts

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Very nice. It this is what the new version is going to look like, I think I'll add it to my P500 order!

Posted Tue Jan 30, 2007 2:50 am
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Brent Cunningham

(historyguy71)

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Lake Geneva
Wisconsin

Being ingnorant of how may previous printings there were, is the 2nd printing the newest/most up to date printing?

Posted Sat Jul 4, 2009 9:53 pm
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Mark Mahaffey

(West2)

United States
Columbia
South Carolina

As far as I know, yes.

Posted Sun Jul 5, 2009 3:52 am
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Russell Gifford

(Russ G.)

United States
South Sioux City
Nebraska

Incredible skills! Great work, and thanks for the preview!

---Russ

Posted Tue Jun 6, 2006 8:12 pm
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M Stumptner

(M St)

Australia
Unspecified

Map in need of a redo: The Gamers' (now MMP) Austerlitz.

This is an old game but the map is so hideously coloured that there was at one point talk about a reprint. That never eventuated though.

Posted Fri Mar 9, 2007 9:04 am
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Paul Raggett

(Paul65)

Australia
Sydney
NSW

These are quite beautiful.
You have a real gift.

Posted Tue Mar 24, 2009 11:53 pm
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Mark Mahaffey

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United States
Columbia
South Carolina

Thanks, Paul! Most kind...

Posted Tue Mar 24, 2009 11:54 pm
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Robert Ellis

(bob48)

United Kingdom
Newcastle upon Tyne

The map for Bradleys D-Day looks absolutely stunning (as do the counters). I have got this one on my 'buy' list.

Posted Tue Sep 13, 2011 7:31 pm
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