Game Map

The Game Map window provides a live mini map of the game world showing town ownership, contention, deployment, links, and other information. You can zoom in and out using the mouse wheel or the +/- keys and scroll around by dragging with the mouse. The town or firebase under the mouse pointer will be displayed in the top left corner. To jump to a specific town simply type the first few letters of its name while in the map window and select it from the list.

Selected town

When you click on a town it becomes highlighted with any links to other towns drawn. It's owner flag and name are displayed below the map (click to go to Town Status) and the following information is shown:

• Facilities – The number of armybases, airfields, depots, etc in the town.
• Deployments – The number of army, air and navy units deployed in the town.
• Supply links – The number of supply links (total and currently available).
• Original owner – The original owner at the beginning of the campaign.
• Location – The lat/long coordinates of the town (click to view the actual town in Google Maps*) and average altitude** (click to toggle between meters/feet).

* Idea shamelessly stolen from KFS1’s View CP page.
** Kindly provided by FOGABAN from www.battlegroundtools.com.

Map options

You can configure the amount of detail drawn on the map by selecting items in the map options menu. Your settings will be remembered next time you restart the program.

• Attack Objectives – Draw a yellow circle around towns with an Attack Objective.
  • Town Names – Also show the name of the town.
• Firebases – Draw the locations of active firebases ( = Allied, = Axis).
• Airfields – Draw a compass ring around airfields.
• Supply Links – Draw paths between towns that have supply links.
• Brigade Links – Draw lines between division HQ’s and their brigades.
  • Only Selected Town – Only show links for divisions in the selected town.
  • Only Army Brigades – Only show links for army brigades.
• Air Grid – Draw a grid like the in-game AWS grid and enable cell references.
• Frontlines – Draw a frontline for each side that separates friendly territory from “no-mans-land”.
• Attack Arrows – Draw arrows in the direction the enemy is attacking.
  • Only Linked Towns – Don’t show dotted arrows for unlinked towns (eg, para drops).
• Player Activity – Show regions that have had recent player activity.
• Country Borders – Draw lines along the various country borders.
  • Names – Also show each country's name.

Supply Links

Friendly links that are “blocked” are highlighted white. Blocked links prevent brigades from being manually moved over the link (they can still manually or automatically fallback). A friendly link is blocked when there is:

• an enemy firebase on the link, or
• an enemy held depot at either end of the link, or
• the destination town is controlled by the enemy

Player Activity

The player activity overlay shows areas of the map that have had recorded player deaths in the past hour. The map is divided into cells (currently 500m x 500m) which are updated every minute. The level of activity is indicated by colour, yellow to white, from most to least deaths. The brightness of the cell indicates how recent over the past hour the activity occurred.

Hires Map Plugin

If you want to be able to zoom in further and have the available memory, you can download and install the Hires Map Plugin. You will then be able to select several larger map sizes from the Map Options.