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Author Topic: Giant maps for wargames - sliced into panels for home printing!  (Read 487 times)

Offline Forwardmarchstudio

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Giant maps for wargames - sliced into panels for home printing!
« on: January 26, 2020, 09:57:57 PM »
Hi everyone,

A few months ago I began to put up some large-format image files of 18th and early 19th century maps of Napoleonic battlefields. The idea with these was to print them out, put them underneath some cheap plexiglas (I prefer to use panels from poster frames) and then slide the figures around on top.  This allows players to re-create battles with real terrain considerations, which greatly affects how games are played. 

I think that the very large file sizes, and resulting high cost of printing, have turned some people off.  To make the maps more accessible to everyone (including myself) I'm not making them available as PDF files that can be printed out on a home printed, and taped or glued together to create the final product.  Once placed under plexiglas the tape should be invisible. 

As a cost comparison, at Office Depot here in the US, a large format version of my Wagram map would cost almost $200.  Printed off as 60 x US Letter pages, it costs only $28.

So far I've only modified the Wagram and Marengo maps.  The Wagram map is 88' x 48' when printed out and glued together.  The Marengo map is 60" x 40".   Both have a ground-scale of 10mm = 100m.

Here are the links:

Wagram Map:  https://gum.co/QLoBx
Marengo Map:  https://gum.co/EbajC