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Congrats to Le Franc Tireur for some of the nicest historical maps I've yet seen in ASL (in The Fight for Seoul).

Double points for someone finally, finally conveying what rice paddy terrain is actually like, as opposed to a couple scattered tiny overlays. For years I've seen aerial photographs of terrain in Burma, China, etc., that simply could not be done justice by ASL geoboards and rice paddy overlays.
 

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Those maps....since they are oriental in subject are applicable to numerous other oriental places for DYO purposes...like Japan, China etc. It makes DYO possibilities interesting.
 

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Those maps....since they are oriental in subject are applicable to numerous other oriental places for DYO purposes...like Japan, China etc. It makes DYO possibilities interesting.
The Seoul map, maybe. The other map probably has too many unique attributes that limit its universality.
 

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Meaning that we have never had Asia/Orient landmass maps before. They are multi-applicable.
 

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The Seoul map, maybe. The other map probably has too many unique attributes that limit its universality.
Yes possibly....the huge rice paddy is unique.
 

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..... It is other things that make it less transferable.
Like?

RR are common enough, ... the stream types you could just SSR to all are shallow...the KWT you just all are wooden buildings...the no bypass already exists.....you are looking at near universal Asian terrain, barring the jungle side, none of the artwork is prohibitive of wider applications that I can see.
 

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RR are common enough, ... the stream types you could just SSR to all are shallow...the KWT you just all are wooden buildings...the no bypass already exists.....you are looking at near universal Asian terrain, barring the jungle side, none of the artwork is prohibitive of wider applications that I can see.
That is what I was thinking. Whereas the huge rice paddy is applicable only to certain areas.
 

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Of course we have had Asian/Pacific maps before.
The Pacific ones are islands, not land mass. These two maps in FFS are unique in their scale of coverage of Asian terrain. Which other Asian landmass maps are you thinking of? There is Nhum Ga, Kakazu Ridge but not many others that I can think of.
 

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RR are common enough, ... the stream types you could just SSR to all are shallow...the KWT you just all are wooden buildings...the no bypass already exists.....you are looking at near universal Asian terrain, barring the jungle side, none of the artwork is prohibitive of wider applications that I can see.
The multiple railroads in such a small area, given the relative paucity of railroads in the areas were are talking about.
 

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The Pacific ones are islands, not land mass. These two maps in FFS are unique in their scale of coverage of Asian terrain. Which other Asian landmass maps are you thinking of? There is Nhum Ga, Kakazu Ridge but not many others that I can think of.
Islands, I hate to break it to you, are land masses. And there are maps for Guadalcanal, New Guinea, Luzon, Saipan, Okinawa, Iwo Jima, Wake, Tarawa, and perhaps others.

Also, there are already two previous Korean maps.
 

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Whereas the huge rice paddy is applicable only to certain areas.
I'm sorry, but huge areas of China, Vietnam, Burma, Korea, and many other places in Asia were densely covered with rice paddies. I've attached a 1944 area photograph of Burma, near the city of Toungoo, to give an example. Also a modern day satellite photo of a similar nearby area. A big chunk of the world looks like this.
 

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The other map is from St Louis China-Burma-India Lost Theater.

However, all Asia Pac ASL maps so far depicts tropical terrain which doesn't extend north into China or Korea. The maps FfS is providing covers huge missing landmass in ASL.

PS It just hits me as interesting that rice is a southern China crop whereas wheat is a northern China crop (northern China staple is wheat based). Yet Korea has rice paddies and not wheat. There must be a story there.
 
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The average amount of rain required for rice rather than wheat?
 

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The other map is from St Louis China-Burma-India Lost Theater.

However, all Asia Pac ASL maps so far depicts tropical terrain which doesn't extend north into China or Korea. The maps FfS is providing covers huge missing landmass in ASL.

PS It just hits me as interesting that rice is a southern China crop whereas wheat is a northern China crop (northern China staple is wheat based). Yet Korea has rice paddies and not wheat. There must be a story there.
As I noted before, there have been two previous Korea maps.
 

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The average amount of rain required for rice rather than wheat?
I don't think rice needs rain per se. Most varieties need standing water to grow in. Where that water comes from it doesn't care. Irrigation or rain: it doesn't care.

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Well regardless of the landmass type I am looking forward to see all this goodness in my packs when I get home on Thursday from the desert !
 
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