Ancestors

Written by IBBoard on 2025-01-17 at 20:29

Games Workshop has a scrollable Warhammer Old World map on their theoldworld.com website.

If you want it as one huge image then all you need is wget and ImageMagick 7 (and a quick bit of watching network traffic to work out the ordering of the images!)

for i in {488..523}; do for j in {676..719}; do wget -O map_${i}_${j}.webp; done; done

magick montage map_{488..523}_{719..676}.webp -tile 36x44 -geometry +0+0 map.jpg

And you get a 9216×11264 pixel map! And you find that there's rogue Empire tiles in a lighter colour scheme between Lahmia, the Broken Teeth, the Marshes of Madness and the Mortis Delta 😁

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Written by IBBoard on 2025-01-18 at 11:20

X and Y for bad map cells are:

• 497, 692
• 497, 693
• 499, 691
• 499, 692
• 500, 692
• 502, 692
• 504, 692
• 504, 693
• 504, 694
• 505, 692
• 505, 696
• 510, 692
• 510, 695

You can confirm by grabbing them directly. e.g.:

Bad: https://theoldworld.com/map/10/500/692.webp

Adjacent good tile: https://theoldworld.com/map/10/500/693.webp

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Written by IBBoard on 2025-01-18 at 11:36

Me: Starts looking at other zoom levels to get some slightly better (but scaled) replacement tiles

Games Workshop: Yeah, we just screwed that whole area. Sometimes with overlapping tiles at a different zoom, sometimes not!

Looks like only full zoom-out is good on the Old World map. Otherwise you've got what are presumably old tiles from the smaller map still being served! Someone in the web team didn't do a good job of rolling out the new assets 😬

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Written by IBBoard on 2025-01-18 at 12:01

Because it's using a standard mapping layer system, the tiles at zoom level 9 have numbers that are half as big, and zoom level 8 is half as big again. If you know the bad tile at zoom 10 then halve each number and round down.

So (496, 692), (497, 692), (497, 692) and (497, 693) at zoom 10 are covered by 248, 346.

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Written by IBBoard on 2025-01-18 at 12:35

Manually fixing up the gaps by cropping and resizing more zoomed out tiles. A single zoom level isn't terrible (see "Charnel Deeps" and the tile above it).

The single tile that needs two zoom levels is going to be quite bad, though!

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Toot

Written by IBBoard on 2025-01-18 at 17:06

If anyone wants the full map, I've built a JPEG at 75% quality and uploaded it to TinyPic with a one week autodelete (because I'm worried about the bandwidth hit on my site, and GW lawyers already shouted at me about a scan of a map of Ulthuan about 20 years ago!)

https://tinypic.host/image/oldworld-map-75.2FHIU5

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Descendants

Written by Clément Quinson on 2025-01-23 at 00:35

@ibboard thanks! Apparently they removed it now? Sadly, I am not enough of an old world expert to make sense of what's on this map. Are there surprising new things? Subtle teasers to upcoming stuff?

From what I understand they have already heavily hinted at cathay, and folks seem to think vampires/undeads will come out of legacy... but, as I said I cant read/understand the map!

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