Gameboard

Building The Game Board:

This was a challenge. I took a scan of the map from page 14 of the manual and

loaded it into Corel Draw as the first layer and locked it so it wouldn't move. Then on a

second layer I overlaid a table of squares. I started out thinking I was going to use 4

each of the 32x32 base plates. This would give me a resolution of 64x64 LEGO points

for the map. Well it tuned out that when I got the tower built and put in the middle of 4

of the base plates there wasn't enough room to build a map big enough for

Minifigures just the Microfigs. So I decided to use 9 base plates. This gave me a

96x96 LEGO point map.

I aligned the edges and filled in any square that covered a map line with black and the

frontier with blue. Once completed I exported the data to a text file and wrote a program

to analyze it and tell me how many and of what kind of tiles I would need to create the

map.

UPDATE: April 2020, I had a 34" x 34" play mat printed of the original game board. This

is about twice the size of the original game's. I trimmed it and the Blue buildings you

see on it were a 3D print test.