I've recently been exchanging emails with my fellow blogger David Crook about Eric Knowles' famous MADASAHATTA campaign. As a result, I've agreed to try to update Eric's original map so that we can use it for Colonial campaigning.
I will be using MS Paint as I want to produce the map in colour, and I will be adopting a style that is similar to the one I produced for my ongoing Operation Barbarossa mini-campaign.
I hope to keep my regular blog readers up to date with my progress ... and if the end result is any good, I may even make it available online.
As a matter of interest, I wrote this blog post using html on my iPad ... and actually found that it was not too difficult.
Perhaps the new Blogger isn't too bad, once you get used to it.
I will be using MS Paint as I want to produce the map in colour, and I will be adopting a style that is similar to the one I produced for my ongoing Operation Barbarossa mini-campaign.
I hope to keep my regular blog readers up to date with my progress ... and if the end result is any good, I may even make it available online.
As a matter of interest, I wrote this blog post using html on my iPad ... and actually found that it was not too difficult.
Perhaps the new Blogger isn't too bad, once you get used to it.
Hi Bob,
ReplyDeleteI'd be very interested to see what you come up with re-doing Eric's MADASAHATTER Map- I remember Eric's original Map and there is a lot in it...I think I first saw the Map in a copy of the magazine 'Wargames Illustrated'many decades ago. All the Best. KEV.
Kev Robertson (Kev),
DeleteDavid Crook and I are both veterans of the original MADASAHATTA campaign, and want to update the original map so that it is in colour and includes some details that were missing or omitted.
All the best,
Bob
Outstanding project Bob, I look forward to seeing the updated map and it would be great if it was made available. Cheers Greg
ReplyDeleteDelta Coy (Greg),
DeleteIt’s something David Crook and I have been discussing on and off for some time, and I felt that the time was right to stop talking and to start work on the new version of the map.
All the best,
Bob
It’s great that you are making this effort to, in effect, preserve a part of the wargaming heritage. Obviously it means more to you and David being participants if the original campaign, but the benefit is much wider.
ReplyDeleteMore power to your elbow (or rather trackpad clicking finger).
Nundanket,
DeleteI’m making reasonable progress with the map, but I don’t want to rush it. If I think that it is worth sharing with a wider audience, I’ll make sure that my regular blog readers are kept up to date with my progress.
All the best,
Bob
I look forward to seeing the updated map. As for the new Blogger, I had a quick tinker yesterday and they have 'fixed' some of the things that appear to make it easier to use compared to my last visit. I'll know for sure when I make my next post!
ReplyDeleteSteve J.,
DeleteHopefully the map should be finished in a week or two. As for Blogger ... well I understand that some of the problems are being sorted out, but the change does not seem to have been universally welcomed. In fact, there seems to have been quite a few complaints, and there have been calls for the return of the legacy version.
All the best,
Bob
I sent several feedbacks to them, requesting they keep the Legacy version. I hope they will but I'm not holding my breath.
DeleteSteve J.,
DeleteWe can hope ... but it’s a long one, I’m afraid,
All the best,
Bob
Interesting idea Bob. Are you planning on playing virtually against David Crook?
ReplyDeleteMaudlin Jack Tar,
DeleteWe are not quite sure if we will refight the campaign together or separately, or choose to concentrate on different periods of Madasahatta’s history.
We’ll just see how things pan out once the map is drawn.
All the best,
Bob
Hi Bob -
ReplyDeleteI'd certainly like to see more of a land campaign on Madasahatta Island. White my printer/copier was still working I took some copies of the enlarged map. I'm thinking, though of perhaps about 40 years earlier when the Brittanic rival was perhaps Gallic rather than Teutonic...
Cheers,
Archduke Piccolo
Archduke Piccolo,
DeleteDavid Crook and I are looking to move the time we set our version of Madasahatta in 1981 or thereabouts ... but I am sure that we would be willing to look at any suggestions other potential users might wish to make.
One thing that I am looking at is producing more than one version of the map. One with the original place names etc., and one with the basic geography in place, but with no names on it so that people can personalise their own versions.
All the best,
Bob
Bob -
DeleteI do have an island in mind - Madasagascar - which, however is NOT Madasahatta, and might actually be larger. But it is in a vaguely similar place east of Darkest Aithiops, off Zanzingabar, somewhere...
Cheers,
Archduke Piccolo.
Archduke Piccolo,
DeleteThat makes a lot of sense. As you can probably gather, Madasahatta had its origins as a sort of imaginary version of Madagascar, which Eric then played around with. The result was Madasahatta.
David Crook and I have been discussing your idea about including a French colony on Madasahatta, and it might well possible. It’s certainly on our agenda.
All the best,
Bob