Campaign Theatre Guide

The Campaign Theatre Guide has been revised and posted on the Player Resources page. It includes campaign maps, locality maps and distance guides that will help players plan their campaign strategies and interpret reports.

Turnpike Distance Guides

I have been correcting continuity errors in the locality maps, while also working on the distance guides. I have decided to make a distance table for the turnpikes, which will be the fastest marching routes in the campaign theatre. I have been checking the distances on the Northwest Turnpike, which runs from Cacapon Bridge (now called Capon Bridge) to Claysville, east-west across the campaign theatre. 

The distance between the two end points in THE WINTER WAR simulation campaign theatre is 45 miles. The actual distance is 43 miles. This difference comes from rounding up distances between towns. All distances in the simulation will be measured in miles using whole numbers.  Here is the distance chart for localities in the simulation along the Northwest Turnpike:

 Neffs is no longer present on modern maps, but is near Junction, WV, which is part of the Neffs locality map. Burretsville was in the area of Augusta, WV. Blues Gap is Hanging Rock, WV. Parke's Hollow is now called Parks Valley, near around Loom, WV.

Campaign Theatre Work

I did a little work on the campaign theatre over the weekend, basically checking the locality maps and comparing them against each other and the campaign map for continuity errors. I found a few road names that need to be changed.

I have also been putting together a distance guide. Instead of trying to get the distances between towns and villages with calipers and the scale on the Hotchkiss Map, I am using Google Maps. Where road that were represented on the Hotchkiss Map no longer exist, I am using the Hotchkiss Scale to estimate the distance. Otherwise, Google Maps provides distances between most points that appear to correspond closely to the Hotchkiss Map. Most of the distances on the final WINTER WAR road/distance guide will be within 0.5 miles of the actual distance.

Locality Maps Completed

At long last the locality maps for THE WINTER WAR campaign simulation are completed. Some already have TC2M modified maps completed, others do not. Each locality map corresponds to a location on the campaign map.  The next job is to completed a continuity check to confirm that exits from one map have corresponding entries on another and checking road names.  Then I will re-make the Campaign Map Guide. I want to include a distance chart that will show the distance and road type between adjacent maps.

Objective Removed - Map Simplification

As I near completion of the locality maps that will correspond to the simulation's campaign map, I have also been working on some revision of the rules. I will be eliminated one of the objectives. Old Town, Maryland will no longer be an objective.  This simplifies the campaign map, because Old Town (Maryland) and Green Spring Depot (Virginia) were previous separate objectives and separate localities, but on the same locality map. (I am not sure why I was so interested in making it that way.)

For simplicity, Old Town (north of the North Branch on the Green Spring Depot map) will no longer be considered a separate locality. The locality and objective will simply be called Green Spring Depot and refer to both banks of the Potomac.