Maps

The foundation to any Kriegsspiel is the map!  This page is intended to provide a single start point.  Please Contact us with links to map sources etc.

How to print a map

David Commerfords short tutorial on getting your downloaded map to print.  Read more.

Mapsymbs.

An excellent site for map symbol fonts and other military related resources.  Link to Mapsymbs site..

A guide to maps available at the British library.

Bill Leesons guide to just some of the maps available at the British library.  Here.

American Civil War Maps at the Library of Congress

The US Library of Congress provides access to a plethora of period maps.  Start to navigate the site from here…

Hal Jespersen’s Free Wikipedia ACW Maps

Hal Jespersen offers over 200 free maps and inexpensive custom mapmaking/cartography services,
specializing in battles and campaigns of the American Civil War.  Link to Hals site..

Gettysburg

A scalable map of the ACW battlefield.  Link to site..

Capitaine maps 1796

Capitaine produced maps of Belgium in about 1796 based on Ferraris but with updates to the extent of woodland and roads.  These were not to the level of detail as the Ferraris ones.  Link to site..

German Fotothek

This is a source of German digital images including 18th and 19th Century maps.  Link to site..

(For a full discussion of its uses visit Kriegsspiel News forum).

Military Maps of the Balkans

We have discovered online Military Maps of large parts of Europe prepared for the Military authorities of the Austo-Hungarian Empire.

We were told about them by Kroum N Batchvarov.  They show much of South Eastern Europe at 1:200,000 scale and is believed to have been compiled by the Austro-Hungarian General Staff.

It is a vast resource and various parts of the matrix were drawn between 1875 and the 1930’s.

You can find this large scale military map of Southern Europe here..