The Augustus Campaign Map:

[SenseiJT92]

Is this the new Augustus Campaign Campaign Map?

From what we can see from this image there is a new town in Rome (Asculum), but not as many as were previously in HATG. As far as I am aware, no-one has yet managed to add a new town or province onto the Grand Campaign map.

Map

Here is a close-up of the mini-map:



And here is the vanilla map:



This may not be the map though the image comes from this website, http://www.eurogamer.net/articles/20...tion-announced.

If this is the map, what differences can we discern?

[Abdülmecid I]

Let's not reach to hasty conclusions. That's just a pic found in an article about the Emperor edition. It's very probable that it was taken from a vanilla campaign, not from the DLC.

[SenseiJT92]

Let's not reach to hasty conclusions. That's just a pic found in an article about the Emperor edition. It's very probable that it was taken from a vanilla campaign, not from the DLC.

This may be so, but can you explain the extra town in Rome - given that no-one as yet has managed to add any town or province to the campaign map?

[Abdülmecid I]

Actually, I hadn't realized that Asculum was not on the main campaign, so I stand corrected.

[Saurus]

1. Why would they create an additional campaign (for free!) which is bigger or equally as big as the Grand Campaign?
2. If you take a look at some of your games which you bought physically in a store you might notice that sometimes the "ingame" pictures don't fit to the game at all. That picture of yours could also fit into that category. Especially because the emblems are all different from the current game.
3. It is taken from some random newspage somewhere on the internet. Why on earth should they have informations that CA don't release to us yet?

[Auxor]

Red is Augustus
White is Mark Antony
Yellow is Lepidus i'd assume
Blue on Sicily is probably Sextus Pompey
Blue is Ptolemaic Egypt
Light blue is Hasmonean Judaea
Green is Armenia
Purple is Parthia
Orange is Commagene or Media Atropatene?

Not really sure about most of the others, could be under the control of other proconsuls or whatever.

[The Chocolate Jesus]

1. Why would they create an additional campaign (for free!) which is bigger or equally as big as the Grand Campaign?
2. If you take a look at some of your games which you bought physically in a store you might notice that sometimes the "ingame" pictures don't fit to the game at all. That picture of yours could also fit into that category. Especially because the emblems are all different from the current game.
3. It is taken from some random newspage somewhere on the internet. Why on earth should they have informations that CA don't release to us yet?

Eurogamer is not a "random newspage". Regarding your first point I'd say they thought it is best to give out a big map but not quite as big as the main campaign map.

[JaM]

You can see Arretium on that picture.. there is no such city in current Grand Campaign... instead there is Velrathi.. Anyway, strange thing is Mark Anthony is star1 general... at that point, he was experienced commander, not some kind of a rookie...initially he had quite an edge over Octavian.. plus majority of Caesar's veterans on his side..

[The Chocolate Jesus]

Red is Augustus
White is Mark Antony
Yellow is Lepidus i'd assume
Blue on Sicily is probably Sextus Pompey
Blue is Ptolemaic Egypt
Light blue is Hasmonean Judaea
Green is Armenia
Purple is Parthia
Orange is Commagene or Media Atropatene?

Not really sure about most of the others, could be under the control of other proconsuls or whatever.

What could the dark blue one be? The one that is in posession of Pontos and Pontokaspis?

[The Chocolate Jesus]

Also do you think there will be an Indian faction in the right hand corner of the map? A Mauryan satrapy for example?

[SenseiJT92]

Given that Mr Lusted himself viewed this thread for well over five minutes and did not deny that this is the campaign map, I say that it points to being so.

Or he may have viewed it and thought to himself, "Pfft, silly people... conspiring over the slightest image which shows something we created ages ago in pre-alpha". :')

[Linke]

I hope this is a WiP wersion of the imperator Augustus map.
The Grey areas are problely Goin to be removed and the area inside is goin to get more cities.

[ABH2]

I don't understand the doubt on whether it's the map or not. I took the picture as being from the new campaign. It's obviously modified as it has Arretium (mentioned already) and Asculum. Doesn't mean it's the final version, but most likely it is as you would expect CA to have worked on the campaign map/start pos already.

It looks very similar to the GC map, really. Just some tweaks.

They cut up some areas differently. Iberia looks to have a new design, though it still has oddly drawn borders for my taste. The map doesn't seem as though it would offer any advantages to the GC map for modders from first glance, which is what I'm looking at. So, it's drawn to reflect the political environment of the civil war.

[JaM]

Given that Mr Lusted himself viewed this thread for well over five minutes and did not deny that this is the campaign map, I say that it points to being so.

Or he may have viewed it and thought to himself, "Pfft, silly people... conspiring over the slightest image which shows something we created ages ago in pre-alpha". :')

considering they practically released Alpha version last year i wouldn't be so surprised this is authentic picture... lol

[baptistus]

The Grey areas are problely Goin to be removed

it is the fog of war

[Linke]

it is the fog of war

But it would make a lot of sense to have the area we would be left with then.

[Sir_Pee_Alot]

This may be so, but can you explain the extra town in Rome - given that no-one as yet has managed to add any town or province to the campaign map?

Its properly the campaign map but i dont see a extra town all i see is different names.

[The Chocolate Jesus]

Its properly the campaign map but i dont see a extra town all i see is different names.

Check the map again. There is no town right to the east of Rome on the grand campaign.

[Kronuxen]

Check the map again. There is no town right to the east of Rome on the grand campaign.

I say its fake, Italy already has 4 cities in its province, so having asculum would mean removing neapolis. Now, what a coincidence that neapolis is just out of the picture taken, while the new city (asculum) is on the other side of the mountain and cant be seen.....
I say the asculum name is photoshop, which is easily done, and that was the only change that we can see from out current grand campaign...(except for the change in names, which a lot of modders have already tweaked to their taste..)

[baptistus]

I say its fake, Italy already has 4 cities in its province, so having asculum would mean removing neapolis. Now, what a coincidence that neapolis is just out of the picture taken, while the new city (asculum) is on the other side of the mountain and cant be seen.....
I say the asculum name is photoshop, which is easily done, and that was the only change that we can see from out current grand campaign...(except for the change in names, which a lot of modders have already tweaked to their taste..)

and the mini map is photoshoped too ? because no modders can change the provinces at this time... even the sea zones in front of Egypt seems to be changed (and no modders can do it too at this time).
you look paranoid