September 2015 Challenge: The Trident Battlefield

[Francissimo]

Those challenge are a never ending source of inspiration for cartographers looking for a theme
In this map two nations are gathering their military forces before a possible terrible war. For now minor incidents between each forces only occurs in allied countries of each sides, and the neutral states between those two giants are scared that the situation gets out of control..
For now i've worked a bit with qgis, photoshop and illustrator.
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war.jpg

[Diamond]

Awesome! I love the unit icons - those are terrific.

[Meshon]

Wow. Red vs. Blue has really escalated!

This is looking like a great story in the making, and another fine landscape, as usual.

cheers,
Meshon

[Francissimo]

Thanks for those kind comments guys
Here's an update with labels and an experiment with glowing icons in gif
### Latest WIP ###

war.gif

[Abu Lafia]

Hey Francissimo, this is an awesome entry! It looks very neat (as usual) and the glowing icons are a great idea, they fit the flair of your map very nicely. The only thing that doesn't quite fit in my view, is the font of the two bay labels. They look a bit too "baroque" compared with the rest of the labels.
Keep up the great work!

[Diamond]

Those glowing icons are supremely awesome.

[Ilanthar]

That's pretty cool Francissimo! Poor greeks !

[snodsy]

Great map, maybe too many fonts. Use one, then all caps, bold, italic, different sizes.

I love the blinking icons, but because they all light up - no one - stands out, could you just have a couple that help to tell a story?

Could the colors be a little less vibrant, just a thought, this is a powerful map. Nice job.

[Tom]

Cool map!, the icons are amazing! it looks like a strategic wargame!
Just two notes:
-like snodsy said, the fonts are too many.. (my favorite is the cities one)
-you should add a little bit of texture to the ocean, and maybe darken -or lighten- it

[Francissimo]

Thanks for those advices, i'll definitly rework a bit my fonts and ocean textures too

That's pretty cool Francissimo! Poor greeks !

Nice Ilanthar, you've found the original place