I wanted to come back to mapmaking to finish my QWC (Quebec City - Windsor Corridor) Map by restarting it from scratch to overcome the issues with making the proper sized army circles and finding the room to fit it all within the parameters of the Large and Small map sizes.
But I came out with a different idea for the map instead: Instead of a map based on the QWC, it seems like a better idea and more interesting gameplay for a map based on the 400-series Highways! So I went over each stretch of highway and came up with this list:
400 | 401 | 402 | 403 | 404 | 407 ETR | 416 | 417 | Queen Elizabeth Way | Gardiner Expressway | Don Valley Parkway | 7 | 11 | 17 | 115
Each of these highways would have two lanes going in opposite directions (northbound, southbound, eastbound, westbound). So then each highway's lane would have its own territory (except hwys 7, 11, 17, 115), and some being so long would be divided into sections.
And from all of the contruction that goes on maintaining and expanding these routes, I thought it'd be cool of using the idea of armies of roadworkers. But workers don’t live on the highways, instead they need cities to supply them. So routes don’t give you any armies, but each city on the map gives you armies instead:
Major Cities: Toronto | Barrie | Sudbury | Windsor | Kingston | Montreal | Hamilton | Ottawa | Niagara Falls
Minor Cities: New Market | Parry Sound | London | Kitchener | Mississauga | Oshawa | Belleville | Brockville | Cornwall | Sarnia | St Catharines | Peterborough | North Bay | Pembroke
And finally, since highways constantly draw from the taxpayers for maintainance and expansion, I thought that for bonuses, there could be territories for “government funding” for each certain highway (only if you have armies on the matching routes, of course). And a couple of the lesser highways (11, 17) can be funded to become 400-series highways (411, 417).
After organising a design system, I have sorted out there to be 82 territories in total for this map.
