Guys,
This is a teaser for the SSHIP 098. One of the features of this iteration of the mod will be adjustments of the campaign map. They are in the following areas:
I. Around the North Adriatic Sea:
- provinces of Veneto and Dalmatia are extended along the coast.
- province of Verona has access to the as the river Pad (it also means cutting the overland trade connection from Venice to Bologna, alas, Venice has the overland connection to Croatia (and perhaps to Dalamatia, but it's not yet decided).
- positions of the resources are adjusted in Veneto, fish added for Ragusa, etc.
- Dalmatia's port shifted to the spot where Split is.
- Croatia and Bosnia are cut off the sea (I still hesitate if Carinthia should not be).
- port of Bologna moved a bit south (just to look nicer).
- shifted the western borders of Bologna a bit west and re-placed Bologna's resources (to fulfill the usual goal: no resource on a road).
II. Hungary and around
- Szekesfehervar has been moved one tile north (as it was in reality, I'm not sure if Balaton wasn't bigger in the Middle Ages).
- Gyulafehervar has been moved two tiles north (I think it's a better place historically, and also visually on the map).
- Varad was moved a bit to the east (perhaps more historical).
- a major change in the west: Upper Hungary borders now Austria (as a result the roads look better).
- Austria province got a few tiles: in the south-east wood on the borders with Hungary, and two tiles from Moravia.
- Krakow and Halych borders have been moved a bit south to go along the mountains ridges.
- a few resources were repositions (wine to Eger, glass to Pannonhalma, linen to Buda etc.).
- western borders of Alfold (Varad) are now between Tisa and Danube (not along Tisa).
- Bosnia western borders moved a bit west (ie Croatia lost a bit of land).
III. Germany
- capital of Sachsen (or Ostafalen) was moved from Hamburg to Magdeburg - historically the latter was really important city in the 12c. (and later), but the main reason is having too much concentration of cities in the North (Bremen-Hamburg-Liubice), while the middle of Germany was rather empty. Now the mines in the Harz are very pronounced next to Magdeburg.
- Brandenburg was shifted one space to the east, to make just some space from Magdeburg.
- Praha was moved two spaces west to lie on the left bank of Vltava (as Hradchany castle does, but the main reason was that the roads make perhaps a better grid now).
IV. Greece
- Arta was relocated to the right place: north of the bay; its port was moved to the Lepanto space (mainly to have that road south).
- Korinthos was move one space to its historical place (it will block the passage, so might be reversed it in the future if proven to be a problem), the port was placed on the Modon space (previously on Coroni).
- Attica and Beotia are now part of the Korinthos province (it's been renamed: Hellas, as the thema in 10c was called), not Makedon - it has impact on trade as Thesalonikai had previously that silk; there's also a land connection Korinthos-Arta.
- port of Chersonesos is now in the Caffa space (again: nice long road that otherwise wouldn't be), with re-positioning of resources.
- port of Khandax is now in the Canea space (also to get that road), resources were re-positioned again.
- borders of Epirus and Albania have been moved east to go through the mountains (historical: these mountains' slopes were not in the economic space of Thesalonikai).
V. Around the Caspian Sea:
- Saqsin has now border with Derbent (as a result: no direct access to this sea for the great steppe province with Sarkel, they have economically little to do with the sea and coding will be easier).
- Urgench is cut from the Caspian as it was historically by the Kara Kum desert (again: easier for the coding purposes).
- Sharukan province is connected to the Bulgar province (so Aqtobe is cut from Ryazan) - more rational economic development those provinces.
- port of Baku moved a bit south, port of Kutaisi up north along the Black Sea coast to Abkhasia - this is just esthetical.
VI. In the Middle East:
- city of Halab moved one space south.
- port of Tripoli moved south to the space of Gibelet (to enlighten a bit the shore).
- borders between Halab, Damascus, Tripoli, Antioch, Edessa provinces slightly modified.
- the names of the provinces adjusted to the Arabic versions (Heskif : Diyar Bakr, Mosul: Diyar Rabi'a, Edessa: Diyar Mudar), fixed double use of As-Sam.
- Baghdad province borders now Damascus province (so Al Ahsa is cut from Ar-Raqqa - the problem with Al Ahsa has always been it had too many trade connections and was getting hefty income).
- port of Cilicia moved from Layazzo space to Adana space (just to make the wester part more visible).
- city of Ascalon moved one space south to make a bit more space from Jerusalem.
VII. Other areas:
- city of Murcia moved one space north-east to make the river crossing for the agents possible.
- also Wroclaw was moved one space to the east, for similar reason (EDIT: but then it was moved back).
- fish in the Lund province stack together on the tip of Skane (to entice a merchant, as it was with the Hanseatic ones in the late Middle Ages), while the port shifted east.
- province of Sharukan has now trade connection to Volga Bulgaria (while Aktobe has the number of connections cut).
- province of Napoli has overland connection to Reggio.
You'll see those changes in a version that will be released pretty soon.
There're plenty changes in the size of the settlements and the buildings inside - but this is another issue.