France BJS [NEW MAP 2.0]

[DJENRE]

"REGIONS" : France is divided in 27 "Régions": 22 In FRANCE and 5 overseas (called DOM: "Départements d'outre-mer"= overseas departments).
"DEPARTEMENTS": Regions are subdivided in 96 "Départements" (101 with DOM) : Circle on map
"PREFECTURES" Each "région" has a head department called "Préfecture". Underlined circle on map
Note that DOM are "régions" with only one "département". They count for both. DOM are on the side
France also have TOM ("Territoires d'outre-mer" = overseas territories) but they are not included in that map.

"List of Régions", "Départements" & "Préfectures"

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All right, this is the new design for France Bamboo Jack style.

I have to do the bonuses and set the airports but you can already see the new design and let me know about:

MAP 2.0
[bigimg]http://www.monsterup.com/upload/1301555570945.png[/bigimg]


This is the new map : FRANCE: BAMBOO JACK STYLE

Total of territories: 114 (101 "départements" + 13 airports: one is missing in ALSACE on the map)
"Régions" can be entered only by their "préfectures" (underlined circles) or by airports (Airports can attack each other).
Préfectures can attack adjacent 'préfectures', or 'départements' in their own 'région'.
Airports are in 'préfectures' except for Paris (Roissy-CdG = 95) and Nice (06). Airports can only attack one territory in the 'région' they belong to.
Airports are territories and reset to neutral after playing.
22 starting points in total. Starting points start with 5 troops (Maybe we could set 3 troops with a + 2 autodeploy too)

DOM (5 territs on the side) start neutral and are +3 or +5 autodeploy...(I don't know yet). No ports anymore.
Bonus will be set later. There will be region bonuses (all territ in the same region = bonus) and colored bonus (hold 'préfectures' of the same color = bonus)

[bigimg]http://www.monsterup.com/upload/1300220552554.jpg[/bigimg]

[spoiler=OLD MAPS AND GAMEPLAY]First of all, I know there already is a map of france (geographic one) so please don't tell me that or I will have to argument about it. And you don't want to.
I'm sure the previous creator gave work and time for it.

So , this is the subject : FRANCE - Geographic, not historical.

France is divided in 22 (27 with dom)"Régions" and subdivided in 96 (101 with dom) "Départements" :

There are also 8 Ports and 9 Airports to travel from north to south and from east to west quickly.
Total of territories on this map = 114 (96+8+9+Gibraltar) (+10 if we include DOM)
They can be reached only by the region they belong to.
Those territs are neutral and remain neutral after a turn.
All those territs are separetely written on board (green and blue square)

Airport can reach directly any other airport.
Port are divided in two section : Antlantic and mediterranean. To jump from one to another, the player will have to go through Gibraltar (wich will be seen in POrts tab)
Is it possible to reset to neutral when a player END turn or only when he starts turn?

I made a quick map, just to show you the main idea and the gameplay. I'll do it more nicer when I'll receive a go for it.
I just drawed three regions with connections and region's numbers (north west) to show how departments will join eachothers.

This is the main idea. I let you have a look on it before I comment or answer any question about it.

[bigimg]http://www.monsterup.com/upload/1299449369146.png[/bigimg]

UPDATE Port and Airport Connections
List of ports and airports with "départements" they belong to.

PORTS: From north to south
Calais 62
Cherbourg 50
Brest 29
La Rochelle 17
Bayonne 64
Sète 34
Marseille 13
Bastia 2B

Gibraltar (not French): is the passage from mediterranean to atlantic.

AIRPORTS: From north to south
Lille Lesquin 59
Roissy Charles-De-Gaulle 95
Nantes Atlantique 44
Basel Mulhouse 68
Bordeaux Mérignac 33
Lyon St-Exupéry 69
Toulouse Blagnac 31
Nice Côte-d'Azur 06
Ajaccio Napoléon-Bonaparte 2A

UPDATE More about gameplay

I thought to have like 24 starting points. No auto deploy on it, only starting points. 24 can be divided for any game (numbers of players). 1vs1 will be 12 territ each and 8 players will be 3 territ each.
That avoid to start a 1vs1 with like 50 territories and + 16 reinforcment on first round which is unfair.

24 territories will be one per region (22 in total) except for two region who will have 2 starting points. Those are 2 Régions with 8 départements on it. Rhones-Alpes & Midi-Pyrénées. Ile-de-France also have 8 territ but will have only one starting point: Paris.

UPDATE And if we add DOM
Ok, you should know that France has also DOM (Départements d'outre-mer) which are departments in other parts of the world. We now have 5 DOM (including Mayotte since 2011).
ABOUT THE GAMEPLAY : DOM are reachable only by planes, they start as neutral and once conquer, they have an autodeploy +5. All DOM can be reached by Roissy CDG (Paris airport) and only by 2 other airport from france.
For exemple, Guadeloupe airport will have connection with Roissy CDG + Lille Lesquin + Bordeaux Merignac
while Martinique will have Roissy CDG too but with Nice CA + Nantes Atlantique (instead Lille & Bordeaux).

This is the new map.

[bigimg]http://www.monsterup.com/upload/1299460594913.png[/bigimg]

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[DJENRE]

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[DJENRE]

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[Riskismy]

ah. Here we are. 2 threads no less

[Riskismy]

I like it, but I guess I'm easy to please

Does ports and airports connect to a specific Département? Some of those on the Mediterranean seem to float about by themselves, it seems. I guess they'd have to, to make sense

Maybe the airports could bombard or attack more frivolousness?

Last but certainly not least, what software are you using to draw this in?

[DJENRE]

ah. Here we are. 2 threads no less

Yes, was a mistake in editing my posts or something with my double screen...
I never did a double thread..lol. Double post maybe but double thread, never.

hm. Well, personally I wouldn't mind 10 maps of France, but it does seem odd that you at first say you're aware there's a geographical map of France already, and then continue to to say that this is going to be a geographical map of France. You do mention history, but I can't quite relate - maybe I should go look at that existing map.

Either way, maybe you could provide a map of those 94 "Départements" and 21"Régions", even if just from their home department or some such? Would help a lot.

About France map, there is two maps on conquer club : FRANCE (geographical) and FRANCE 1789 (Historical)

I like it, but I guess I'm easy to please

Does ports and airports connect to a specific Département? Some of those on the Mediterranean seem to float about by themselves, it seems. I guess they'd have to, to make sense

Maybe the airports could bombard or attack more frivolousness?

Last but certainly not least, what software are you using to draw this in?

1) yes airports and ports belong to 1 département and not the whole region : I making updates often and I'll do that so check later.
There are not floatting by themselves, they are where I had place to put them firstly. And for two in atlantics, there were firstly a port and I changed it for airport. But remember it's just to see gameplay, I will change position for the circle, airport and ports to have a nice map, but connections will remain the same.
2) but they won't bombard anything. Anyway, I'll think of that but it was not my first idea.
3) I used paint , yes I know but my old software ran out of date and I'm looking for a good freeware where I could do some better and quicker work so if you have a link, feel free to add it there.
I'm looking for a FREEWARE, where I could easily work on images (and not one to use as testing only for a month!!!)

[DJENRE]

UPDATED with a new map including DOM = 5 more territs + 5 more airports + autodeploy gameplay

[kengyin]

if these territories are based on the real numbered provinces of france then wouldnt it be better if thats how the territories are shaped? rather than as circles, in my opinion those are better for abstract maps and like space based maps etc heres a map

by the way i do french at high school

[Industrial Helix]

Well... arguably France 1789 isn't very historic because Nice and Savoy are part of France when they weren't part of France at that period of time.

But overall, I agree with Kengyin, something with actual territorial borders suits this idea much better than balls and lines... the map he supplied is actually quite suitable. I think army numbers might fit in most of those regions and the ones where they don't, pointer lines or something could be used. Paris would still need the inset though. Actually, you might be able to even enlarge France some and give yourself some more room.

As for the airports and ports... its too much I think. I'm leaning in favor of a more standard gameplay style as proposed by Kengyin. Maybe a few sea connectors.

[natty dread]

As for the airports and ports... its too much I think. I'm leaning in favor of a more standard gameplay style as proposed by Kengyin. Maybe a few sea connectors.

We already have a standard gameplay map of France. Do we really need another?

[Industrial Helix]

Yeah, but neither really look like France. If anything, maybe the departments/regions scheme could work. Regions border all departments and regions border depicted regions.

[DJENRE]

if these territories are based on the real numbered provinces of france then wouldnt it be better if thats how the territories are shaped? rather than as circles, in my opinion those are better for abstract maps and like space based maps etc heres a map
by the way i do french at high school

First, see that on your map, there is no Corsica.... If I made a french map, I want it real!!!
And second, can we use it? (copyright) so I think we have to leave that one.
And be sure I browse the web before I choosed my map (I checked about 200 maps), and that's the nicer one I had (This is one I made at school many years ago)

Well... arguably France 1789 isn't very historic because Nice and Savoy are part of France when they weren't part of France at that period of time.

Yes I know, I'm from Nice actually . And if you want to argue and because of the post from natty_dread,

We already have a standard gameplay map of France. Do we really need another?

It's not France at all...(please note I told first line of my thread I didn't want to tell anything about it, but now we are). Where have you seen mountains in the middle of FRANCE? Alps maybe... Or Auvergne Volcanos, but 100 000 years ago, or maybe it's french before Plate tectonics, when it was pangea
And I don't know haw he splitted bonuses... They are no region nor departments....This guy never went in France I presume.

As for the airports and ports... its too much I think. I'm leaning in favor of a more standard gameplay style as proposed by Kengyin. Maybe a few sea connectors.

We need a way to cross mediterranean and reach corsica. And also a way to reach DOM if we set DOM on that map. See second map given.
Also note that everything is perfectly real on my map : Number of 'régions', number of 'départements', major ports and major airports with their actual names and location....
One more thing about the circles, there is only number of the 'départements' (real numbers we use instead names on driving licence, passport, zipcode, adresses.... in France) to let more room for troops but in the ACTION TAB, when u will choose your département, you will have for example :

2011-03-07 03:04:32 - DJENRE assaulted 56-Morbihan from 29-Finistère and conquered it from xxxxx

Real names of Départements will appears only in ASSAULT LOG. Régions names will appears in bonus tab on map.

[DJENRE]

And also, First French map really upset french players, and if anyone doubt on it, I gonna bring some players to show you a new french map is necessary.

[natty dread]

And second, can we use it? (copyright)

Of course you can't use that exact image (for more reasons than copyright) but no one can claim copyright for real-world geographical areas.

[Industrial Helix]

Yeah, what Natty said. Copyright. But the image is about perfect for small map size and most of the territories have space for legible names that fit and the army numbers... I'd say just throw it in photoshop and trace it. Spice it up a bit... add Corsica with fudged geography or as an inset.

[DJENRE]

Sorry but the map from kengyin is also really ugly....

And I don't want to draw corsica + ile de france.... there is no room for it

[DJENRE]

If the problem on my map is circles, I can do it with the proper names. I told you in the first post, WE ARE JUST TALKING ABOUT GAMEPLAY, then I'll fix the design
But I'm afraid we don't have enough room for both troops and names.... or names will appears really tiny

[Le_cardinal]

I like the map. Just add Corsica + DOM-TOMS

[fairman]

Hi,

Good idea, I'm french and it's true that France map has nothing real.
So i like the idea of a new one.
I like the 24 starting point.
But I'm not a big fan of the DOM idea (to many and will be hard to integrate in your map)
If you plan to do airport and port, maybe you could do an economics map, wich special bonus, castle, wine, ... in the idea of AOM or AOR.
Good luck for this map ...

[PATMB]

j'aime beaucoup l'idée

[DJENRE]

Je vois pas de quelle carte tu parles!

Est ce la première avec les cercles?

Ou la carte administrative avec les départements?

Parce que celles avec les départements, elle est pas mal, par contre, il manque la Corse, et je pense que faire un lien vers les DOM TOM, ça serait marrant! Il suffit de trouver les départements d'outre mer, et de les placer sur le coté atlantique!

En tout cas, je suis d'accord avec toi!

Ciao,

Captain Mishalex.

Sur mon premier post, y'a les deux maps que j'ai proposé avec ou sans DOM, l'autre map a été envoyée par un autre joueur mais y'a pas la corse et je la trouve pas super jolie.

[DJENRE]

salut,

oui, c'est n'importe quoi cette carte de france à la mords-moi le noeud! france 1789 est déjà bcp mieux, mais il nous manque une carte actuelle avec les départements.

il y a eu un projet de carte il y a quelques années, mais il a été abandonné. comme le tien, il s'agissait de reprendre tous les départements (à voir pour l'île-de-france) et les bonus étaient constitués par les régions administratives, un peu comme sur la carte qui est au milieu de la page sur le lien que tu as inséré dans ton message.

si tu veux, je veux bien t'aider pour te suggérer des frontières naturelles plus réalistes entre départements/régions. ton idée des aéroports est excellente, car sinon la carte serait trop grande, mais je suis moins convaincu par l'idée de rajouter des ports, ça pourrait faire doublon.

n'hésite pas à me contacter, je t'aiderai avec plaisir!

jambay.

Ouais meme la 1789 est pas tres credible avec les duches de savoie et le compté de Nice mais bon...
Merci pour ton soutien en tout cas.
Pas faux pour les ports qui font doublons, je pourrais peut etre les supprimer mais l'avantage d'avoir port + aeroport permet des acces a quasiment toutes les regions sauf pour deux ou trois au centre qui n'ont ni port, ni aeroport.
Que veux tu dire par frontière plus réalistes? celles ci sont les vrais frontières.

[jambay37]

par rapport à la carte administrative page précédente, on peut mettre des rivières ou des montagnes pour séparer des départements, par exemple les vosges qui rendent impossible le passage entre la franche-comté et la lorraine, ou la loire entre rhône-alpes et l'auvergne.

et même avec la carte physique avec des cercles, on peut les incorporer en supprimant ces liaisons.

sinon, la carte administrative proposée page précédente est pas mal dans l'esprit.

salut,

oui, c'est n'importe quoi cette carte de france à la mords-moi le noeud! france 1789 est déjà bcp mieux, mais il nous manque une carte actuelle avec les départements.

il y a eu un projet de carte il y a quelques années, mais il a été abandonné. comme le tien, il s'agissait de reprendre tous les départements (à voir pour l'île-de-france) et les bonus étaient constitués par les régions administratives, un peu comme sur la carte qui est au milieu de la page sur le lien que tu as inséré dans ton message.

si tu veux, je veux bien t'aider pour te suggérer des frontières naturelles plus réalistes entre départements/régions. ton idée des aéroports est excellente, car sinon la carte serait trop grande, mais je suis moins convaincu par l'idée de rajouter des ports, ça pourrait faire doublon.

n'hésite pas à me contacter, je t'aiderai avec plaisir!

jambay.

Ouais meme la 1789 est pas tres credible avec les duches de savoie et le compté de Nice mais bon...
Merci pour ton soutien en tout cas.
Pas faux pour les ports qui font doublons, je pourrais peut etre les supprimer mais l'avantage d'avoir port + aeroport permet des acces a quasiment toutes les regions sauf pour deux ou trois au centre qui n'ont ni port, ni aeroport.
Que veux tu dire par frontière plus réalistes? celles ci sont les vrais frontières.

[djelebert]

I agree with this project of course! i will not give another complaint against actual map... but it's true that another must be!

But please don't make it a map like AoR, as i read. this kind of map must be kept for non real territories i think. resuming France or other country to some ressources could be difficult.

Ports ands aeroports idea could be a great idea!

Bon je continue en Français, car déjà ça risque de ne pas être clair!

Sinon pour les liens entre départements, si cela est trop complexe, on pourrait faire dans l'esprit de bamboo jack, avec les départements d'une région qui peuvent s'attaquer entre eux, mais ne peuvent pas attaquer d'autres départements, et faire les liens entre régions avec les aéroports et ports, ou le long d'un fleuve.

[douitashimashite]

Hi,

Good idea, I'm french and it's true that France map has nothing real.
So i like the idea of a new one.
I like the 24 starting point.
But I'm not a big fan of the DOM idea (to many and will be hard to integrate in your map)
If you plan to do airport and port, maybe you could do an economics map, wich special bonus, castle, wine, ... in the idea of AOM or AOR.
Good luck for this map ...

i agree with this idea, france is full of resources (wine, cheese, bread, castle etc....) also maybe have everyone with 2 starting point 1 port and 1 airport (which shall not connect ) both auto deploy +1 ?