Civilization: The Expansion Project

The Standard Map

Here you get an idea of what the map look like. The left hand side is Martin's Mapboard, while the right hand side is Mark's Mapboard Redux.

These mapboards are best printed at 300dpi, though it requires a pretty good computer to do so. 150dpi is quite good as well, and even 75 dpi works but is kinda fuzzy...

Martin's Mapboard (with area names)

This is the "official" map, and is the only map suitable for play by email. Having the area names on the map also simplifies using the Scenario Hanbook to determine playable area for games with less than 18 players.
Version 2.09 (Updated 2007-04-26)
Martin's Mapboard with Area Names (Vector PDF, 0.7MB).

If you can't get the PDF to open/print, you can try these PNG files instead.
Low Resolution Mapboard (75dpi PNG, 0.7MB).
Medium Resolution Mapboard: Part 1, Part 2, Part 3 (150dpi PNG, 1.6MB).
High Resolution Mapboard: Part 1, Part 2, Part 3, Part 4, Part 5, Part 6 (300dpi PNG, 4.0MB).

Martin's Mapboard (without area names)

This is the same mapboard as above, but without area names. For those of you wanting a "cleaner" look.
Version 2.09 (Updated 2007-04-26)
Martin's Mapboard without Area Names (Vector PDF, 0.6MB)

If you can't get the PDF to open/print, you can try these PNG files instead.
Low Resolution Mapboard (75dpi PNG, 0.5MB).
Medium Resolution Mapboard: Part 1, Part 2, Part 3 (150dpi PNG, 1.1MB).
High Resolution Mapboard: Part 1, Part 2, Part 3, Part 4, Part 5, Part 6 (300dpi PNG, 2.8MB).

Mark's Mapboard Redux

This is Mark's Mapboard Redux. It looks great, but is a large download, and lacks area names. Only intended for printing.
Version 2.08 (Updated 2007-03-10)
Mark's Mapboard Redux (300dpi PDF, 131MB).

For those of you with poor bandwidth or too lite RAM in your computer to manage the huge file above, you can try these PNG's instead.
Low Resolution Mapboard (75dpi PNG, 18MB).
Medium Resolution Mapboard: Part 1, Part 2, Part 3 (150dpi PNG, 64MB).

Scenario Handbook for the Standard Map

This is the Scenario Handbook you should use in combination with the Standard Map.
Version 2.09 (Updated 2007-04-26): OpenDocument original, PDF (will fit on both A4 and Letter).

The Playermats

These playermats features nation specific designs:
ZIP-file with PNG images.
Version 2.08 - 2.09 (Updated 2007-03-05)

The Counters

This zipfile contains high resolution png images of all 18 civilizations, not only the new ones, as well as white tokens for barbarians and pirates:
ZIP-file with PNG images.
Version 2.08 - 2.09 (Updated 2007-03-05)

Credits

The Mediterranean area is based on the American (Avalon Hill) map for Civilization (incl. the Western Expansion Map).

The Persia/Arabia graphical section is partially based on an add-on from the Spanish magazine Alea. To those thinking of buying issue #21 of Alea just for this map... DON'T. While the map looks good there are simply way to many errors on the American (Avalon Hill) version of the map, regions didn't have population markers and some regions bordered diagonally (which is just confusing). We had to spend hours and hours to fix it. It most certainly wasn't play tested (unless they messed up the map at printing).

Velusion is primarily responsible for the Horn of Africa.

India and Northern Europe was mostly done by Martin Brodén.

Martin Brodén also remade the entire map into one nice streamlined vector PDF. Without his effort the map would not look as great as it does!

Mark Mahaffey made a redux of Martin's map, looking awesome. It is part of his map redux odyssey, you can see his complete portfolio at www.west2productions.com/Mapology.

- John Rodriguez (Velusion) and Jon Severinsson (Jonno)