One final Firefly teaser...

Well, folks... I promised a graphics teaser for the new Firefly chapter, so here it is:

You're looking at an overhead shot taken from Bing Maps of a ten-mile stretch of the Grand Canyon not far from the South Rim, for the record. If you've never been there, it's a place that truly does live up to its name. The Grand Canyon is how I envision the Delemare River gorge, and it consists of high cliffs and bluffs that leads down to a plateau, at the center of which sits a sharp and narrow ravine where the Colorado river itself cuts through. It's over 5,000 feet from the canyon edge to the river places, for the record, to let you know how incredibly big and deep it actually is. Here's a decent picture of the terrain the ponies and gryphon forces are confronting:

Note the lower plateau and winding inner gorge where the river sits. That's what Still Way is proposing they use to attack the gryphon assembly area, while Fell Flight doesn't like that idea at all, you may recall from a couple teasers back. What do they come up with? You'll find out Friday.

I will have the Epsilon battle maps done by then, but it's unlikely, unfortunately, that the Raptor ones will be. I'll probably have to put those in later. But the 10,500 word new chapter will be released on Friday morning. Enjoy!

Comments

[Sanitizer]

Nice!

[Grungar3x7]

So, is that two individual magus gryphons, or two centuries of them?

[Firesight]

4927816

Thanks!

4927820

Two individuals. Two centuries would be represented by “I” (following standard NATO military map notation for a company) and be just about unstoppable by anything short of Celestia at this point. I do see a mistake on the map now--a battalion should be “II”, not “I”.

[Firesight]

4927871

In the battles we’ve seen, yes. In plenty of other places, they did just fine. That said, they are primary targets when they appear and the first day of battle is certainly revealing some weaknesses in them. We’ll address those as we go.

PS: I’ve uploaded about half a dozen new graphics to the google doc. Give them a glance if you like.