| THE CIV3 SCENARIO HAVEN | Resources and maps for scenario makers |
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What this website is about My name is Harlan, and I enjoy making scenarios for Civ games. I particularly like scenarios based on real history. However, I'm a real perfectionist when it comes to historical accuracy. I was disappointed with the average quality of Civ2 scenarios when it came to this, and now that Civ3 is coming out, I've made this website so people can find the resources they need to make their scenarios better depict what they're trying to depict. I've got a good number of atlases, and in addition have collected images of many maps over the years. This website makes many of those images available for you to view. There are countless maps out there, and I can hardly put all of them on this site. I've chosen to focus on the kind of maps that are hardest to find, yet most important to a scenario maker. Namely, maps that show the resources, trade, populations, city sizes, culture, road locations, and the like. For maps of political boundaries, you're on your own.
The main focus in on trade and resources. In Civ3, these will be much more important than they were in Civ2, so accurately creating the political dynamic of a certain time requires getting these right. I hope you agree. All of my scenarios have focused on the Old World, and the maps I've collected over time have also focused on there. Thus, you will not find any maps of the New World on this site. Sorry, can't have everything. General
comments about the maps Posting these maps are probably not going to make any copyright folks happy. Therefore I hope to keep this site very low profile. If you copy any of the images, please don't post them elsewhere on the web. They are for your personal educational purposes only. I hope these maps don't prevent you from wanting to buy any atlases, but rather they whet your appetite to do so. The maps were scanned into the computer in a very rough and ready style. Apologies in advance for any parts of maps that are cut off. I generally tried to clean up things on the sides of the map that get cut off. For that stuff, buy the atlases! The maps are roughly in chronological order within each section, from ancient to modern.I recommend
browsing the sections for maps you want, then click on the thumbnails
to see the full versions. Once you're seeing the full version, right
click your mouse and choose "save as" to save the map
to your hard drive. In the future I may add other materials to this site designed to help Civ3 scenario makers. And of course, I plan on adding new maps as I come across them. Also feel free to send me maps you fitting the criterion I mentioned above, and I will probably add them. Also, please let me (harlant@earthlink.net) know of any errors on the site - I threw it up quickly so no doubt there are thumbnails that lead the wrong map and the like. Please DON'T contact me with other scenario making questions. The Apolyton forums are a much better place to do that, and I'll probably see them there if I have an answer. I hope you enjoy maps and find them useful. Update Notice: I am hitting the road for a few weeks. Before I go however, you can find some zipped files of all the new maps I will soon be adding to the site in a more permanent way. Here they are: newmaps1 newmaps2 newmaps3 newmaps4 newmaps5 newmaps6 newmaps7 Note that all of these are quite big. Each are between 4 and 5 megabytes in size. |
