Kherson, from the Inhul river to Tikha

Headaches aplenty.  Yesterday's section overlapped three map sheets ... and while one section today overlaps only two sheets, the last also overlapped three.  Plus the fact that one of those had to be created from scratch as well.  Sigh.  Let's get on with it.

The section above consists of the lower Inhulets river, east of the Inhul.  It includes a part of the Dneiper sheet that disappears in the completed version below, which includes only what's on the Crimea sheet.  

I had the Inhulets river pouring into the Dneiper, but no.  Updating and fixing things is good.  Yes it is.  The reader can see from the numbers that infrastructure is falling off as we go east.  That trend continues eastward, but as can be seen, towards the south the development improves.

More steppe and I'm liking the pattern forming, with villages at least 12 miles apart.  Not much to say that I haven't already said ... so let's just move along.

This next section overlaps to the east and north, so I'm doing half the section at a time, since all of the west end is on this map.  I forgot to take the screen shot before starting, so the layout of villages, the Dneiper River and hex types are already there.  Half a hex doesn't take long, but of course this one had to be copied twice.  Here's the hex completed:

This part of Kherson has been hard-fought for in the 2022 war.  For those who might be interested, the village of Kachkar on the map corresponds to Kachkarivka, one of multiple places that Ukraine recaptured on October 4th, after Russian forces were forced to abandon this side of the Dneiper.

My next step was to create a new sheet to the east: L.37e - Sea of Azov:

Look at all those easy-to-map sea hexes.  I've added the little bit from the Crimean sheet in the corner; here's a close-up:

The real world name for Tikha is Velyka Lepetykha, which at present remains under Russian control.  According to this story, the town is one of six that the Russians began to forcibly evacuate on November 6.  Looting is reported.

Sobering.  I'll decline further comment and post the completed map:

Tomorrow I'll post a completed version of the Dneiper sheet, which is also being left behind now as we continue south.  The next line of sections proceeds, with three and a half sections to do to bring the map's edge to the hex immediately west of Vesoi.