Al Amos wrote: Very good. I'd love to see you extent that map to cover Quatre Bras and maybe even Mont St Jean.
QB I could probably do ... given time. Waterloo is out of the question. No funding for it. These "stylistic" + "Topo" maps I did for RBR take a LONG time to produce. Like 3x the normal time for a map  . Its all of the hedge hexsides ..... that and I used TWO overlays for each map ... one for the topography and another for the Ferraris 1777 map.
My goal with the Fleurus map was to NOT include as much of the Campaign Waterloo game as possible. I purposely left the QB battlefield off of the map. There was nothing I could do about having Ligny or the other areas on the Fleurus map ....
Right now I am working on THREE panzer games plus these updates. Time is a limited quantity given that I cannot do the 12 hour days anymore .... I do six hours sometimes and that's a good day. During pre-release time I increase it but I have to watch it .... Today I started getting a recall of a time when I played softball in an empty parking lot as a kid.... yup, that is what happens just before I pass out.... A real pain and I know eventually I will have to quit using the PC altogether except for quick checks of my banking account, online buying.
So much to do ... never enough time or mental energy. I am back to reading books a bit more (after overdosing on reading novels in 2014 when I landed in Los Angeles-SF Valley). Got some good research work done last night .....
I look back on my work with some regrets - mainly that I didn't have the research materials I needed - a book would come out RIGHT after I finished one of the games that could have helped me - just couldn't delay releasing that game.. needed the money. But lack of effort will never be one of my regrets ....
I am glad to have this opportunity to correct the Austerlitz game. I really enjoyed working on it.
FYI - I now employ a Quality Control person to help me with the Panzer work. He looks over the Scenario Descriptions, setup, looks for roadblocks that end up on the map by accident, that kind of thing. He also writes up the "Getting Started" PDF which saves me a LOT of mental energy and time. While I loved writing "How To" guides in the past, the writing is very tedious for me now.
I have been told by one fellow that my Campaign Notes are written in a flowing style. Says I could write novels. Well that is one of my goals .. to write novels. I need to do some study on that first but hope to slowly work my way out of game design and into the novel writing biz. I could be anywhere and do that. An RV by a lake, cabin in the mountains, etc. Not as much to haul around in the way of hardware. I use two monitors for my work. Almost impossible for me to do it otherwise.
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