WIA_St_Leger Now Available

The St. Leger modded map is now complete and available for download on the WIA MOD Links page and the Madminute Games forum. The map has roads connecting it to Lead Hill, Rapp's Barren and (yet to be completed) Bennett's Bayou on the campaign map for THE OZARKS CAMPAIGN command simulation. It is on the northern route across the White River, where the campaign map allows movement from Lead Hill to St. Leger without having to control the river crossing in-game. (Talbot's Ferry, North Fork and Sylamore all have crossings which could be defended at the ford/pontoon bridge, making it more challenging to cross.)

 

There are four town maps that still need to be completed. They are all in the northeast corner the campaign theatre and represent parts of Fulton and northern Izard Counties. The remaining maps to be completed are:

- Bennett's Bayou

- Cross Plains

- Franklin

- Pilot Hill

Bennett's River and Union (appearing on period maps) were removed from the WIA campaign map for simplification purposes. The location of Cross Plains and Franklin were also slightly altered on the WIA map. Cross Plains will be the next map under construction. It no longer exists on contemporary maps and it is now known as Pineville, in Izard County.  The WIA map for Cross Plains will be based on an area around Pineville.

 

I was prepared to quickly put together proxy maps for the remaining towns in the campaign theatre and was going to use Anderson's Crossroads for Cross Plains. The Anderson's Crossroads is a map available on the Madminute Games forum  that has always been one of my favorites (long before I knew how to do anything related to modding maps). Because the action in THE OZARKS CAMPAIGN so far has focused on the southwest section of the campaign theatre, it is allowing me to slowly finish off the remaining towns as custom maps based on actual topography for the area.

 

Speaking of THE OZARKS CAMPAIGN, orders are starting to come in and fighting is likely to continue (and be potentially heavy) over the weekend.