Mexbuild's Worldmap - Info & Updates

[Mexbuild]

Hello everybody.

Im proud to announce: Mexbuild's Wordmap for Arsenal of Democracy.

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Welcome to my project.

My ambition is to make a completly realistic world map for the new title of Hearts of Iron 2 - Arsenal of Democracy. Through many improvements and the end of the province cap limit I finally can start this work. I have worked very long to increase my skills to do this huge work. The predecessor of this mod was "project new europe", which I started with no previous knowledge and reached a very nice looking map equal to the design of the orginal HoI2 map.

What this map will probably offer for gamers:

• A photo-realistic bordersituation betweeen 1914 until 2010.
• A completly new mapdesign which is still similar to the classic stlye.
• More options to attack and defend your enemy.
• I high level of detail in small province regions like Palestine.
• Cities will be the bastions of this map. (For expamle West and East Berlin.)
• Correct rivers, mountains, seazones, topography and alternative borders.
• Used on the miller projection for the most realistic warfeeling.

Some questions and answers:
What is you current state of development?
I have worked out the concepts how the map will look like. I will start with the main work in some days.

What can I do to help you with this project?
At the moment nothing.

When you think will your map finished?
"It's done when it's done"

What are your plans for the design?
I have a strong focus on real borders and real rivers. The most important aspect is to offer a real terrain.

I want to see some of your map... but where?
Look in the post under this post and the following pages.

I find your map is crap!
Go f**k yourself

If you like this idea I will be happy about your suggestions and criticism.

 

[Mexbuild]

Here you will find my Artworks for some impressions how the map will look like:

Europe 1910:

Europe 1937:

Europe 1949:

Europe 2010:
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Remember this are only artworks. The map will look like this but will have many changes.
(See Czechslovakia or Yugoslavia, thats crap.)

PS: Wanna see some pics from my start of mapmodding?
The beginnigs:
http://www.abload.de/img/bildh9x5.jpg
http://www.abload.de/img/screensave6jsjl.jpg
http://www.abload.de/img/zwischenablage01qxy1.jpg
First release:
http://www.abload.de/img/212ifjt.jpg
http://www.abload.de/img/screensave17qe31.jpg
Kind regards.
Mexbuild.

 

[Inner Circle]

Your Artwork looks great!
How many provinces are you planning to use for your map?

How does one mod the map, what are you doing, or is there anywhere a decent tutorial?

 

[tuore]

I'm wondering it too. The game's map folder is full of files I can't open. How does one edit the map?

 

[Mexbuild]

Im planning at first the normal amount and will look where the addition of provinces make much sense. In Siberia problably not but maybe in China, Japan, Europe and Afrika and South Amerika.

 

[Misantropia]

suddeten is not represented acurately in this acurate map

 

[Inner Circle]

suddeten is not represented acurately in this acurate map

Artwork = A concept and not the final map

 

[hansnery]

I'm impressed, keep up.

 

[unmerged(166917)]

Looks great, fine work!

 

[unmerged(105734)]

Why not just use the E3 map?

It's 80% the same as your map, plus it's already done.


(Also, The Netherlands on your map is wrong, it doesn't look like that until 1968.)

 

[Mexbuild]

E3 is not the same map. E3 uses like Hoi2 vanilla serveral map projections. The projection of my map can you see in the coverpicture.

 

[Akaki]

Love the colours, but how would Czechoslovakia look like after Munich..?

 

[unmerged(133545)]

A very good start, keep up the good work!

 

[Acesandeights]

Looks beautiful, but you certainly have your work cut out for you.

Good luck, Sir!

 

[Jarno]

nice

 

[unmerged(92061)]

creamed my pants

 

[nigo]

wonderfull


any brazil pics?

 

[Chromius]

Looks great, looking forward to it.

As provinces are added what effect does it have on the AI for single player.

Looking at how terrible HOI3 AI is and the 5 times the provinces and same amount of division counts between HOI2 and HOI3 how will it effect AoD AI? We cant split division so as you add more provinces it will have to be a balance of what the AI can handle and the Division counts vs defensible coastlines and borders.

I cannot understand why HOI3 added so many provinces and made every province invade-able, (not to mention the AI wont invade any) they should have used beaches and made some inaccessible for landing due to terrain, also invading a non beach should result in only having 1/4 supplies after landing say 1 weeks worth, so that you are forced to use commando traits and logistics when invading hazardous coastlines.

But yes I look forward to your map.

 

[Mexbuild]

Love the colours, but how would Czechoslovakia look like after Munich..?

Yes, the Sudenten will look like this: http://www.abload.de/img/screensave17qe31.jpg

any brazil pics?

Not yet.


Generally:
If you want to contribute you can post the subdivision maps of your country to show how I shold make the inner borders the the countries.

 

[Mario78]

First of all thank you and congratulations : the idea is brilliant and the concept maps look great !
I would love to offer some inputs, mainly about my Country ( Italy) and the neiboroughing ones, in order to make some Italian claims more realistic or indeed possible (e.g. the Italian region of Switzerland that Mussolini was claiming and was planning one day to get )
How can I do it ?