May / June 2015 Lite Challenge: Map an Ambush. VOTING

[Bogie]

Hey everyone. We had a bunch of wonderful entries in this challenge. A huge THANK-YOU to everyone who entered.

The challenge was to Map an Ambush.

Thumbnails of the latest entries can be found here: http://www.cartographersguild.com/ch....php?type=lite

Please check out everyone's entries at full size before voting.

The voting will run for 3 days and then a Silver Compass will be awarded to the winner.

Also please "REP" everyone you feel deserve it whether you voted for them or not.

[arsheesh]

Some really nice entries this month. My vote went to Chick and ChickPea. Each of their respective maps were well thought out and presented. Great job guys and gals!

Cheers,
-Arsheesh

[ravells]

Chickpea for me! I loved chick's map too but it was too textual for my taste.

[Chick]

Chickpea for me! I loved chick's map too but it was too textual for my taste.

Thank you for the comment, and I'm sorry you didn't like the amount of text, but unlike LoTR, I felt this story was not well enough known to simply post a map without a full explanation of what was going on.

Without the day by day description, it would be hard to convey the brilliance of the double ambush where Arminius deliberately staged a first ambush to drive the Romans to the north side where the real killer ambush was set up.

[ravells]

For sure. Making those choices is always hard and in the end, it's just a subjective decision on my part. Great work on the map though!

[JefBT]

I couldn't finish my map, but there will be more challenges to take part.

Nice challenge, and very nice maps. Congratulations everyone!

[ChickPea]

JefBT, sorry you didn't finish. That's happened to me too. You've got the right attitude though. There's always next month.

[JefBT]

It's ok, ChickPea, thanks. I'll finish the map anyway, just to train more, and it doesn't matter if I could not finish it in time. I've learned a lot from this challenge, from every map and every comment, and that counts a lot!

[ChickPea]

Yup, learning some new skills or trying some new ideas out is really the best thing you can get from a challenge. That counts more in the long run than whether you finished or not.

[Chick]

Yup, learning some new skills or trying some new ideas out is really the best thing you can get from a challenge.

I agree 100% with this. I think just rehashing an old map you've done before is a waste of challenge time.

I started this challenge by an internet search for "famous ambush", and when the first one that popped up was "The ambush that changed history" and I read a few words, I knew I had to do that one So first I had a lot of fun doing the research and learning about it, and then making the map itself let me try something I had not done before (top down). So overall it was a great project for me in particular, since I never miss a chance to learn something new and this one had multiple ways to do that .

That counts more in the long run than whether you finished or not.

Maybe more, but IMHO if a map is not finished, it should not qualify for the challenge. It's very unfair to the people who took the time and effort to finish theirs.