MWiF Map Review - America

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Dwayne in all his glory.

[Mziln]

What do you get when the ships computer puts the only human in stasis for 1 million years because of a radiation leak and yout decended from the only survivor?

The Cat.

[Froonp]

ORIGINAL: marcuswatney

SOUTH AMERICA
 
Brazil:  The Amazon River Road is an anachronism.  When I was on the Amazon in 1975, Manaus could still only be reached by river.  It is a free port (truly), so the Amazon should be shown as navigable up to that point.  In 1975 the only road out of the Amazon southwards began at Santarem, roughly where Amazon of Amazon River Road is printed ... and it looked pretty new.  Northwards, the road network began at Boa Vista near the source of the Branco and ran to the border with Venezuela and onwards.

It's a little late of an answer, but it is better late than never as we say in France.
The Amazon River Road you see on the MWiF map is here to represent the transport capacity on the Amazon River itself indeed. Because there are no rules in WiF FE for River Transport, the designers have used this trick on the Africa (Kasai River) and America (Amazon River) Maps to represent transport on the Rivers. I would have prefered a rule for Supply / Rail moves along the rivers to exist but it don't.

Edit : Well, I see I had already answered in post 488...

[Shannon V. OKeets]

Here is the requested review of North America. It has been stable for some time now. If a closer-in view is necessary, I can provide that, but I would prefer to not go to the trouble unless there is a problem.

Starting in the far northwest. Point Barrow defines the top of the map.

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Moving east - to Cape Bathurst. Perhaps Bath Hurts might be a more appropriate name?

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Continuing east to the Magnetic north pole.

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Last in the eastward movement - that is Greenland on the far right.

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Due south of the previous screen shot - the entrance to Hudson Bay.

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Moving west - more of Hudson Bay.

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Westward Ho!

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Last in the westward movement. There is a chorus from Anchorage coming to our barbershop convention in Hawaii in late October.

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Moving south, and starting the next east-west strip.

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Heading back east, to the land of lakes.

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Continnuing east. There were rather a lot of changes to this area as I recall.

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Moving south. A very busy section of the map.

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13th and last in the series. Eureka!

[Mingus Roberts]

Great to see Whitehorse on the map, but the Yukon river is navigable to Whitehorse as you no doubt learned in grade school. You have severely truncated the river that flows past my house! The Yukon is the third longest in North America (the Mackenzie - not far from here is the longest). Robert Service is rolling in his grave... how will I get a dog team to Lake Laberge this winter without the frigging river? Vital battles will no doubt be fought here, so it MUST be accurate. Oh yeah, and there should be more mountain in the Yukon;)

MR

[Norman42]

Spent some time looking over the maps last night (the wife tells me I used to only look at her that way).  Aside from drooling over the quality and immensity of these maps, I didn't find any very outstanding errors. A few obsure place names for rail heads in Canada that could be changed to something more accurate, but nothing major.
 
The one change on the North America map that I think should be done is a label for the Los Alamos hex, the place that ushered in the Nuclear Age.
 
A quote that I always found interesting was when a biographer was interviewing D. Eisenhower after his presidency he asked "What do you think were the 2 most historically important places in WW2.  Stalingrad? Normandy? Pearl Harbor?"  He responded. "Los Alamos and Auschwitz. Those others only changed the tide of war.  These changed Humanity".

[Froonp]

ORIGINAL: Norman42
The one change on the North America map that I think should be done is a label for the Los Alamos hex, the place that ushered in the Nuclear Age.

A quote that I always found interesting was when a biographer was interviewing D. Eisenhower after his presidency he asked "What do you think were the 2 most historically important places in WW2.  Stalingrad? Normandy? Pearl Harbor?"  He responded. "Los Alamos and Auschwitz. Those others only changed the tide of war.  These changed Humanity".

Los Alamos is on the map, but it is in a small font that is only displayed at the highest levels of zoom. Here the zoom was not high enough. It is in the Santa Fee hex near Albuquerque.

[Norman42]

ORIGINAL: Froonp

ORIGINAL: Norman42
The one change on the North America map that I think should be done is a label for the Los Alamos hex, the place that ushered in the Nuclear Age.

A quote that I always found interesting was when a biographer was interviewing D. Eisenhower after his presidency he asked "What do you think were the 2 most historically important places in WW2.  Stalingrad? Normandy? Pearl Harbor?"  He responded. "Los Alamos and Auschwitz. Those others only changed the tide of war.  These changed Humanity".

Los Alamos is on the map, but it is in a small font that is only displayed at the highest levels of zoom. Here the zoom was not high enough. It is in the Santa Fee hex near Albuquerque.

Excellent.