Right, so if one is looking to game all over Europe in the interwar period, they'll need roads at some point. I will probably be making some dirt/gravel roads as well as some tarmac/asphalt ones. What I don't know is what the relative predominance would have been of each type in the 30's. I.E. should I make more dirt or more tarmac or make about half and half?
As far as I know there would have been three main types of roads at the time:
- Rough dirt
- Macadam (i.e. gravel) roads
- Tarmac or asphalt
Asphalt construction was picking up due to the great increase in road traffic since 1900, and in some counties had been continuing since before 1900. The two extremes would probably be Britain with the most (though I actually have no idea what
percentage of British roads were tarmac/asphalt paved by, say, 1935) and Russia (which had less than 1000 km of any sort of tarmac asphalt road before WWII, the main stretch being part of the road between Moscow and - I
think - Smolensk/Minsk). But I have no idea of adoption rates or percentages or anything like that and can't seem to find any specific information online.
So I'm wondering what proportion of roads would be best? For each of the three types I plan to make at least enough sections to cross our game table once, but I would like to make some extra ones for whichever was (or were) most common.
Of course in cities or built up areas you'd have cobbles or setts or the like as well, but that's not what I'm talking about for the moment.
In any case, I'm probably overthinking this anyway, aren't I? But now I've gone and gotten all curious.