Help with Mass combat Tactical maps.

[Zilfrel Findadur]

Ok i will try to be brief.

I am GMing WotR and i want to include more Mass combats to the scene, but i am lacking maps, and i don't know how to make them, can anyone help me, perhaps illustrating me in the art of drawing maps, or telling me where to get some. i will be very thankful.

[Zilfrel Findadur]

anyone?

[Lochar]

most people didn't care for the mass combat, as it was even more rocket tag and/or MAD than normal.

The easiest way to get maps is to hit up google images and search for it.

[Zilfrel Findadur]

I did, and i tried with different searchs like "battle maps" "fantasy tactical maps" even "warhammer maps" i tried with everything, still not a single good map. i searched trough cartographer's guild and still no maps :S there should be a place to get them. i just dont know.

[Doktor Avalanche]

I get a lot of maps from the Board Game Virtual Tabletop Vassal.

The one I use for mass combat is the Band of Brothers game:
http://www.vassalengine.org/wiki/Module:Band_of_Brothers

You can see the type of maps included by looking at the screen shots before you download the 55MB .VMOD file. This is just a zipped file so open it with Winzip or similar and extract the images file - amongst the tokens and stuff will be a dozen or so maps.

[Doktor Avalanche]

And the other useful one for mass combat is the Tide of Iron game:

http://www.vassalengine.org/wiki/Module:Tide_Of_Iron

download the .vmod file, and also the Day of the fox and Normandy vmdx files (not the ones titled "decks" since they are just cards) open them with a zip programme and extract the image folder to grab the maps and map pieces.

[Zilfrel Findadur]

@Doktor Thank you very much, i found this really helpful!

it also gave a couple of ideas for creating my own hex maps :D