These feel like they're coming fast; I'm not pressing that hard, but I am enjoying the process. I could stand a few less mountains. The Adriatic Sea is now just 10 west of the bottom corner of this add, so the next post will feature a sea coast.
I'm experimenting with a new colour scheme for these snow covered mountains; the colour isn't clear on Blogger, but when I post a pdf of the region on my patreon, it should show the change. The Sharr and the Albanian Alps are the first I've mapped in 6-mile hexes that are both high enough, and have enough snowfall, to produce an ice-cap. There's going to be a lot of it if I get to the Austrian-Swiss Alps; pretty sure I'm going to skip past that as I round the corner towards northern Hungary, Bohemia and southern Poland. Looking forward to mapping the big Lake Balaton in Hungary.
For the time being, it's a march up the length of old Yugoslavia, mapping Bosnia, part of Croatia and Slavonia.
Though at first glance, each of these maps might seem much the same as the one before, but there are differences I can feel as I choose the placement of mountains, rivers and so on. The whole reach from central Bulgaria out to Albania has been one hard task of wild, inconsistent country split by multiple, non-homogeous mountain ranges. It's no wonder that ancient Greece felt trapped against the sea, as these sheer wildness lands took civilisation many centuries to unravel and overcome.
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