Today, a detail regarding mapboard 59 upwards struck me which might also apply to some of the Fort-boards from the Action Packs:
As an example of the issue, have a look at VASL bd 61T7, which is a level 1 hill with grain on it.
The printed SK-style board has the crestline highlighted in brown going through the grainfield, where the hill crest is supposed to be.
The VASL board is missing this highlighting of the hill crest.
This can have some consequences regarding LOS.
IIRC, the rules state, that with non-inherent terrain, the hill crest will be defined by the terrain depiction of that non-inherent terrain. I.e. regarding 61T7, the hill crest would run along the outside border of the grainfield.
Basically, the same holds true for the map with the highlighted hill crest running through the grain, however, in some Journal (I think Journal 10), there is some remark that despite not exactly stated in the rules, it is advised to treat that highlighted hill crest as the relevant hill crest and not the outside border of the non-inheren terrain in such cases.
In many cases, even without a highlighted crestline, the crest can be guessed. But there are cases it which guessing is rather difficult and therefore using the "default" of the rules is probable. Consequently, in such a case the outer border of the non-inherent terrain would be used on the VASL version for the bd61 example while the highlighted crestline would be used for the printed bd 61 if the advice of the Journal is adhered to.
Therefore, it would make sense to edit the newer mapboards in their VASL versions to include the highlighted crest lines.
One thing that I do not understand in this context regarding the printed SK style boards is, that highlighted crest lines seem to exist if passing through grain and brush but not woods, which seems kind of odd but should not be our problem here.
von Marwitz
