"Looking for 6mm scale maps/mats of the fulda gap region." Topic

Hi there,

Like the subject, trying to get a big map going for a campaign with the FFOT3 rules, recreating a cold war gone hot. Im looking for gaming mats, or pictures I can print with a minimum size of 6x4 feet.

Ive been googling and surfing the whole day and alot of sollutions are either extremely expensive (custom made maps), not the right scale or simply not compatable with the setting of 1980's west germany.

Any ideas are welcome!

There's a map in GHQ's Modern Micro Armor: The Game rulebook, claims to be based on official military maps. Meant to be used for entire post-war period.

Not sure what you want. 6mm as a map scale doesn't mean much – a map at 1:285 that is 6x4 feet is a tiny piece of land.

FFT3 uses a 1" = 100 yards scale. Are you looking for maps at that scale? That you can print and then play on?

Or are you looking for a "strategic" map for a campaign where battles will be fought on your table with FFT3?

If what you need is a campaign map, try hunting around for a boardgame that has the map you want?

Just get commercial topographic maps. There isn't a lot of difference between military topos and civilian topos. Then you can just copy and enlarge as needed. You can use a rough equivalent of 1" = 100 m instead of 1" = 100 yds. In that case a square kilometer, or roughly 1" on a 1:50,000 map would be 10" a side.

Some people with mad computer skills an cut and paste from Google Maps or the satellite image and enlarge it nicely.

Any of these work for you?

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