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Miniatures Adventure => Age of the Big Battalions => Topic started by: Schogun on 11 September 2010, 03:13:34 PM

Title: [Nap] B&W Maps or Color?
Post by: Schogun on 11 September 2010, 03:13:34 PM

Say, Napoleon's looking at a map before the battle of Waterloo. Is the map totally in black & white? Some color -- terrain type or troop positions (although I've read they used wooden blocks or markers of some kind)? All color?

I have some officer figs holding maps -- blank of course -- so I want to draw a map on it and need to know whether to use color and for what.

Thanks

Title: Re: [Nap] B&W Maps or Color?
Post by: Danrit on 11 September 2010, 06:46:55 PM

Black and White is the way I'd go. The contemporary maps I've seen are black and white, as are the maps I've seen all the way up to the Franco-Prussian War in 1970 and even beyond that.

Title: Re: [Nap] B&W Maps or Color?
Post by: Sangennaru on 11 September 2010, 06:48:44 PM

i agree. maybe the coloured maps were used in the offices and halls, but if it is a field miniature, i think that BW map should be better .)

Title: Re: [Nap] B&W Maps or Color?
Post by: Greystreak on 11 September 2010, 08:24:48 PM

Most maps were indeed black and white, and Napoleon and Berthiér used to sprawl across the floor of the Imperial tent placing different coloured 'pins' to mark march distances, enemy locations, etc.