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Vietnam: More time was spent on the Mang Yang Pass map. Hopefully I will have this finished for the weekend. I'll post some screenshots of it when I am finished detailing.

Vietnam: Most of the evening was spent on the Mang Yang Pass map. I am nearly have 90% of the road network, hydrology and towns complete and have started adding the contours. The ability to have 19 elevation levels now is extremely useful in this mountainous terrain.

I never knew you could put a price on a season, but clearly you can.

This has been one of the most remarkable summers ever. So far, the New York region has endured five 90 degree plus heat waves, with a sixth heat wave underway as I write this! As I’ve written before, this is highly unusual for Long Island. If we get one – maybe two – heat waves during the course of the summer, it is remarkable. Heck, last summer never even heated up until the last week of July, and even then it didn’t break 90 degrees once. And, of course, it was all

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Vietnam: I continued working on the Mang Yang Pass map. I really like the looks of the Vietnam maps, the terrain is rather visually appealing. As I have mentioned before, this map is rather large. To tackle a large map such as I this I will usually start by figuring out the extents of the area I am interested and then, using a high elevation hex, I will split the map into a 20x20 hex grid. I will lay out the road network, the hydrology and the towns (labeling the towns as I go). The contours and significant vegetation cover will follow. Afterwards, detailing the map in an effort to portray the ...

Vietnam: I spent the remainder of my weekend working on the Mang Yang Pass map. I have expanded the map 80 hexes (20 km) to the west, essentially to the outskirts of Pleiku. As this is a large map, it will take awhile to complete.

Middle East: Caught up on my playtest turns and offered some assistance to one of the BETA BRIGADE members on how to create a LCG. While incomplete, I hope the document provides relatively useful as it will be included in the manual.