Being the third in an irregular series of blogposts considering the application of Frank Chadwick's "bathtub" campaign ideas to the VBCW in Hereford. For earlier posts, click on the "Bathtub Hypothesis" label to the right.....
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| Bartholomews Revised "Half Inch" Contoured Maps |
As previously noted, a huge advantage enjoyed by Frank Chadwick when planning his "Bathtub Barbarossa" campaign was the ready availability of a pre-made hex map suitable for his purpose (a map from the "Fire in the East" board game, with a scale of one inch hex = 16 miles or 25km "on the ground"). As there are, strangely, no commercial board games dealing with the Herefordshire VBCW (at least, as yet), the prospect of finding a suitable map for a "bathtub Herefordshire" looked bleak. Until...
The discovery of Bartholomew's Maps. Contemporaneous maps (1930s - 1950s), covering the whole country, helpfully coloured and contoured to show heights, still readily available on Ebay at cheap prices, and scaled at half inch to the mile.
This earlier post explains the preferred Hereford VBCW "bathtub scale" of "One inch (on the map) to one foot (on the tabletop) to two miles (on the ground)", i.e. a "map scale" of one inch to two miles, or, to put it another way, a map scale of "half inch to the mile".
Bartholomew's Maps therefore provide (quite co-incidentally, of course) the most highly detailed information possible for a Hereford VBCW "bathtub" game, without the necessity (always a nightmare for most wargamers) of having constantly to "convert scales" (or do maths) - thereby putting us right up there with Frank Chadwick's "Barbarossa" starting point.....
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