6 Mile Hex Map - Baltic Region - Worldographer v0.6 (WIP)

Here's the latest version of my Baltic coast map for pre-Modern scenarios. I was primarily inspired to make the map by the source books: The Medieval Baltic, Volume I, The Medieval Baltic, Volume II and Crusaders of the Amber Coast as well as the RPG Baptism of Fire.

It covers the area from Stockholm in the North-West to Novgorod in the North-East and down to Minsk and Smolensk in the East.

I think it's at a usable state now but as always I'm open to feedback. I've done my best to use real geographic information but there's been a lot of guess work involved as well. Edit: I think I'm still not placing enough Coniferous forests in this area and should perhaps add more swamp forest in the Estonian region. It seems at least 50% of the trees are Coniferous trees (pines) often a higher percentage.

The Grauden, Dainava Forest, Naliboki Forest and Čepkeliai Marsh were all created following the description in the Medieval Baltic Volume I and looking at Google Maps.

The placement of the cities was according to a map in that guidebook in the year 1456.

Chelmno
Danzig
Elbing
Frombork
Kaunas
Königsberg
Minsk
Novgorod
Olsztyn
Pskov
Reva
Riga
Smolensk
Stockholm
Torun
Turku
Vilnius
Visby



Here you can see some of the town placements.

It seems the forest type in the central Baltic area Hemi-Boreal a mixture of Pine and Broad leaf trees. https://www.researchgate.net/figure/Location-of-Latvia-in-the-hemiboreal-forest-zone_fig2_339384037

There are specific tiles for that type of forest which I've used, but 'Light Density Deciduous Forest' is still the most common tile. Again, any feedback is greatly appreciated.

You can download the latest Worldographer file here

Baltic-6-Mile-Hex-v0.6

The map is also based on the one found in the article below (scroll down).

Rewilding: Lessons from the Medieval Baltic Crusades

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