Battle of Hohenfriedberg (WIP)

[timallen]

I was inspired by finding a very kool font someone else here used. I think the map is almost done. Now I just have to re-do the counters.

[Greenhorn]

While the font looks fine you may adjust it a bit.
The year is very hard to read, also the "9th". Maybe you can use a different, better readable font for the numbers?
The "The" is far too near to "Battle" because of the large "curve" of the "B".
The Fuchs-Berg still misses it's s ;-) (The "F" should also be nearer to the "u". I don't know the English word for "Spationierung" which means the spacing between two letters.)
For the trees: you may try to place them ABOVE the streams. Note that parts of some trees are also cut off at the southern fringe.

Sorry, I'm German. So I may sometimes not use the correct English words for what I mean ;-) But I hope you can see what I mean.

[Ascension]

He's talking about kerning - the space between letters. That's the main problem with free fonts - they're not kerned properly, and most not at all, so you have to do it manually. That part takes me a good deal of time usually.

[timallen]

Agreed that the font isnt the best. I love the overall look it gives, but I am experimenting with other fonts to find one that is easier to read but still gives a hand written feel. I have also continued to work on the counters. Here are a few examples of what I have so far. I probably have to add in some colour to distiguish the counters a bit more. Or maybe a flag in the background, or in a corner. We'll see.

[Greenhorn]

He's talking about kerning - the space between letters.

Vielen, vielen Dank :-)

Tim, the nations of the counters are almost impossible to distinguish ... expecially if there's poor light above the gamemap. I recommend to go with the good old background colors.

[timallen]

Is this better?

[Greenhorn]

Decide by yourself ;-) :


For my thaste the flags are a little bit too much and also unneccessary.

[timallen]

But I like flags! :-)

[Ascension]

I like the flags as well. You know what you're doing Tim - you're the best board game designer here.

[timallen]

I think I have pretty much finished off the counters and map for this game now. Opinions?