Wargame Map Tool: A beachhead map for my mini-campaign board

Recently, I began thinking about setting up a beach landing wargame on my mini-campaign board and decided to design the terrain using the Wargame Map Tool. It took me less than ten minutes, and the result looked like this:

I have begun to play around with some of the tools and discovered that I can scale things to fit the hexes ... and that I can set the size of the hexes up to 50mm, which is half the side of my Hexon II hexes.

This is really turning out to be a great map drawing tool ... and the more I use it, the easier I am finding it to use. 

Wargame Map Tool: My Operation Barbarossa Mini-campaign Maps redrawn

The next step in my 'learning how to use the Wargame Map Tool hex map drawing program' was to see if I could use it to redrawn the maps I used for my Operation Barbarossa Mini-campaign. These date back to the 2015s and included:

• Operation Barbarossa Mini-campaign: Crossing the river (15th February 2015)
• Operation Barbarossa Mini-campaign: Counter-attack (17th February 2015)
• Operation Barbarossa Mini-campaign: Defence line (20th February 2015)

Below are the original maps, in each case followed by the relevant redrawn maps created using Wargame Map Tool hex map drawing program

The original 'Crossing the river' mini-campaign map.

The redrawn 'Crossing the river' mini-campaign map.

The original 'Counter-attack' mini-campaign map.

The redrawn 'Counter-attack' min-campaign map..

The original 'Defence line' mini-campaign map.

The redrawn 'Defence line' mini-campaign map.

As can be seen, the redrawn maps are simpler than the originals and lack some of the finer details ...

... BUT ...

... once I set up the basic hex map, I managed to produce the redrawn maps in less than fifteen minutes, and that included uploading the original exported PNG images into MS Paint to tidy up one or two minor problems and to save them in JPG format.

I am still on an upward learning curve with this program, but the more I use it (and make mistakes as I do!), the more I am learning the strengths and weaknesses of this hex drawing program.

Wargame Map Tool: My first attempt to draw a map

Having recently downloaded the WARGAME MAP PROGRAM hex map drawing program, I have managed to start playing around with it. I decided that my starting point would be to produce the sort of map I used for the Operation Barbarossa Mini-campaign that I staged last year at my local game club, Dice on the Hill. It took me a couple of attempts to get it the way I wanted it to look, and the result looked like this:

It is by no means as detailed as I hoped it might be, but for a first attempt I was quite pleased with the result.

Wargame Map Tool: Is it the hex map drawing program that I need?

First, a big THANK YOU to Pete Forster, who sent me a link to WARGAME MAP TOOL hex map drawing program. As the following images from the relevant page on Board Game Geek website show, it seems to meet all my requirements ... and possibly more!

I have now downloaded the program, and hope to try it out over the next few weeks.