Hi,

Is someone aware of a tool to create and share is own skirmish maps ?

Or is someone has digital tiles in high definition that allow to build new maps under Photoshop or the Gimp ?

Thank you for information ! ?

I've heard that some people have scanned all of their tiles. If that's true, then it wouldn't be too hard to put together a basic program that allowed you to build maps electronically and share the results. I wonder if it can even be done on Vassal... (though that would almost certainly not be the ideal program/format for that).

The Vassal IA Campaign module intentionally uses an end resolution of 64dpi (although scanned and edited in 300dpi). If you don't want to tinker with the physical tiles you can use the module to design maps even if it isn't enough for your printing needs.

There's also the IA Printable Skirmish Map Project:

Seems like most maps are just Core, or Core + 1 expansion. Are there any that are Core plus 2 expansions? (For example Core, plus Hoth plus HotE).

Are there any that don't use the core at all?

I worked for a while one a 3 player skirmish map but couldn't get it very balanced.

Expansions do not assume that you would own more than the core and the specific expansion the map comes with or the figure pack is associated with.

Thus, all maps from FFG consist of tiles of up to 2 expansions. Maps from the core and maps from the reinforcement waves (not associated with any boxed expansion) only use core tiles. (Except the Batha Rider, which needs tiles from Twin Shadows, but Bantha is an exception in many other ways.)

Thank you all for your responses. ?

That will help me !

I have been a Star Wars fan for ages and I was an IA Skirmish and an X-Wings player.

At present, I work on a long term project that will use all the IA expansions. In fact, my purpose is to create specific scenarios that deal with the star wars histories between the end of the episode III and few years before the first order rising. This will include episode IV, V, VI, the Rebels serie and the Star Wars comics tagged "Legend".

My goal is to allow a player teams to play Han Solo, Luke, Leia, Chewbacca, C3PO, R2D2, Obiwan...and all the other Star Wars heroes and not only unknown rebels!

Who has never dream to escape from the death star, to try to free Han Solo from the cloud city or from the Jabba's palace, ... ?

And so, Maybe alternative tales could be written as in the infinities comics books ! ?

At this step the project was just initiated. Do not know if such initiative have been already launched ?

Note : I have an other dream this is to mix IA and X-Wings games maybe this project could be the opportunity to do this !

With my work on the Imperial Assault Skirmish Map Project I've got a bunch of high-dpi scans of all the tiles. Many have been edited to remove the puzzle-piece borders. Happy to share them with you or anyone. DM me an email to send an invite to the Google Drive shared folder (Gmail accounts work best here).

Also, to be double clear: every existing map is made of core-set tiles, or core-set plus 1 expansion.

PS: there are several existing projects to combine X-Wing and IA. I don't have any links handy but be sure too search around for existing work.

Thank you very much nickv2002 !

I send you my email in mp!

I am going to look for X-Wing & IA project on Internet ! Thank you, as well !