Germany - Mittellandkanal

The Mittellandkanal: a Germany-Saxony scenario

Between Hanover and Magdeburg, the Mittelland Canal runs through one of Germany's industrial heartlands. One of the country's major car factories stands alongside steelworks in a dense urban setting. The main challenge of this map is to move ore, steel, parts and cars by canal, rail and road, and to connect the main urban areas. The terrain is relatively easy to play on, except in the mountains of the south, which will bring a few challenges when linking the towns and industries located there.

A realistic, highly hand-detailed very large map, shaped from high-precision real-world elevation, land-use and vegetation data, where every mode of transport gets its moment.

11 × 22 km · 39 towns · 58 industries · temperate climate

A canal at the heart of industrial Germany

About 325 km long, the Mittelland Canal is the longest artificial waterway in Germany. Built in stages between 1906 and 1938, it links the Ems to the Elbe, across Lower Saxony and Saxony-Anhalt.

The canal serves a dense industrial region: the steel industry of Salzgitter and Peine and, above all, Volkswagen's headquarters plant in Wolfsburg, built on the canal bank and one of the largest car production sites in the world. Around it grew an entire supply chain, from steel to spare parts.

The map reproduces the region's terrain and layout from real data. Distances are compressed to fit the game's map size, but the arrangement of the towns and the canal is respected.

Learn more: the Mittelland Canal on Wikipedia

Map features

• Size: 11 × 22 km (1:2 ratio), very large map
• Terrain: high-precision Copernicus elevation data
• Towns: 39 towns, including Hanover, Braunschweig, Halle and Magdeburg
• Waterways: the Mittelland Canal, its branches, the Elbe and the Leine are navigable
• Industries: 58 industries covering every production chain in the game (including those of the landmarks)
• Climate: temperate
• Ideal for: an easy first scenario, river freight, complex industrial chains and high-speed rail

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