3.2. Temperate

Region:

Europe north of the Alps. Ranging from the Urals west to the British Isles and on down into northern 4/5th of France and the northwest portion of coastal Spain.

Characteristics:

• On the wet side with rolling hills, knobs, and plains with mixed conifer/deciduous broad-leafed forest.
• May be heavily forested or open.
• Marshlands on more open plains near watercourses or coastal Netherlands.
• May snow in winter; rains periodically at all other seasons of the year.
• Can have large rivers and some lakes.
• Can have some cliffs intersecting ranges of hills permitting the passage of rivers through cuts.
• Temperate may be heavy in wood and animals but is otherwise normally endowed with stone and ore.
• It is usually a reasonably good defensive map.
• This map also makes for an excellent watermap for such as coastal, continental, and islands type maps.

Typical Temperate type variations:

• Fortress Eire & Albion (fortresses are sited atop mounds, access is normally open)
• Fortress Cantabrian Highlands (fortresses are sited atop hilltop heights, access may be reduced somewhat by adjacent forest on slopes)
• Fortress (any)
• Nomadic
• Herocide

Packeting Parameters:

Elevation Meshes

• Primary (Lowlands).
• Secondary (Midlands).
• Tertiary (Highlands).
• Quaternary (Ocean Floor).

Terrain Textures

• DIRT1
• DIRT2
• GRASS1
• SAND2
• FORFLOOR2
• ROAD1
• ROAD2
• WATER1
• WATER2
• WATER3
• RIVER1
• RIVER2
• RIVER3
• RIVER4
• RIVER5
• RIVER6
• ICE1 

Flora Tree Objects

• TREE12
• TREE23
• TREE25
• TREE26
• TREE29
• TREE30
• TREE35
• TREE36
• TREE37
• TREE38
• TREE41
• TREE42

Flora Plant Objects

• PLANT1
• PLANT3
• PLANT4
• PLANT5
• PLANT6
• PLANT15
• PLANT17
• PLANT18

Fauna Objects

• ANIMAL4
• ANIMAL6
• ANIMAL8
• ANIMAL9
• ANIMAL10
• ANIMAL14
• ANIMAL17
• ANIMAL19
• ANIMAL21
• ANIMAL25
• ANIMAL26
• ANIMAL28
• ANIMAL29
• ANIMAL30
• ANIMAL35
• ANIMAL37
• ANIMAL39
• ANIMAL42
• ANIMAL43

Geological Objects

• GEOLOGICAL1
• GEOLOGICAL3
• GEOLOGICAL4
• GEOLOGICAL5
• GEOLOGICAL6
• GEOLOGICAL7
• GEOLOGICAL11
• GEOLOGICAL12
• GEOLOGICAL13
• GEOLOGICAL14
• GEOLOGICAL16
• GEOLOGICAL18
• GEOLOGICAL25
• GEOLOGICAL26

Temperate Land types:

3.2.1. Cantabrian Highlands

• Characterised by mid to relatively high hill lands.
• Many heights have non-forested buildable space at their tops.
• Some valleys also good for building.
• Well wooded and watered
• Other resources good.
• Watercourses periodically shallowed or have rocky fords.
• Civ Territories are divided as appropriate to the map.

3.2.2. Ardennes Forest

• Similar to Black Forest in AoK.
• Densely forested.
• Variable-sized pocket clearings and narrow passages hugely over-endowed with Wood.
• Other resources normal.
• Civ Territories are divided as appropriate to the map via passageways through forested area.

3.2.3. Lorraine Plain

• Cut through the centre by the Loire River traversing east-west with some shallows.
• Fairly open-wooded and basically flat
• Plenty of building room.
• Well balanced resources.
• Civ Territories are divided by main river and tributaries (with necessary shallows for crossings).

Temperate Water types:

3.2.4. Eire & Albion

• Islands type map.
• Two main islands oriented north-south but east and west of one another, one slightly smaller than the other.
• Coastlines typically have a lot of cliffs with occasional breaks in them that may or may not be at river mouths.
• Some smaller islands spotted in the channel between and to the east and north.
• Nicely balanced for resources.
• Civ Territories are allocated commensurate to space on the two larger islands.

3.2.5. English Channel

• Albion and Gaul juxtaposed across the English Channel.
• Coastlines typically have a lot of cliffs with occasional breaks in them that may or may not be at river mouths.
• Civ Territories are divided between one landmass and the other with north-south separation provided by watercourses on land with occasional shallows.
• Civ Territories divided by water features as appropriate.

3.2.6. Rhine Marshlands

• The Netherlands.
• Generally on an east-west orientation.
• The map has many shallows crossing marshes and limited building space.
• Open ocean lies to the west.
• There are few beaches with adjacent land where ports can be developed.
• Is a hard map to defend on so strategy must be aggressive.
• Civ Territories are divided as appropriate to the map.