Germany (gigantomaniac 1-1)

Germany (gigantomaniac 1-1) All of Germany plus the Netherlands, Belgium (east of Brussels), Luxembourg, north-eastern France (Champagne, Lorraine, Alsace, Burgundy, Franche-Comté), northern and central Switzerland, Liechtenstein, Austria (west of Vienna), Bohemia and western Poland (Szczecin, Zielona Góra) on a gigantomaniac 1:1 map (28.7 x 28.7 km). Vienna and the Belgian coast lie outside the frame. 285 real cities at their real locations. Most cities start at minimum size. The 37 big cities (Berlin, Hamburg, Munich, Cologne, Frankfurt, the Ruhr cities, Amsterdam, Brussels, Prague, Zurich and others) demand twelve or more cargo types; regional cities demand fewer. This is car country: most residential districts demand vehicles. 1,423 industries placed by real economic geography: Coal: the Ruhr, Saar and Aachen coalfields, and the Lusatian and Central German lignite fields Iron ore: Salzgitter and Peine, the Siegerland, Lahn-Dill, the Upper Palatinate and the Harz Steel: Duisburg, Dortmund, Salzgitter, the Saar, Bremen and Eisenhüttenstadt Chemicals: Ludwigshafen, Leverkusen, Marl, Höchst, Bitterfeld, Leuna and Burghausen Glass: Jena, Lusatia and the Bavarian Forest Wine: the Mosel, Rheingau, Palatinate and Franconia, plus Champagne, Burgundy and Alsace Beer: Bamberg, the Zoigl village breweries, the Andechs and Weltenburg monastery breweries, and the Belgian Trappists Every wine region and farmhouse or monastery brewery has a farm next to the brewery. 48 car plants, only at real sites: Wolfsburg, Stuttgart, Munich, Ingolstadt, Zwickau, Eisenach, Leipzig, Regensburg, Cologne, Saarlouis, Emden, Bremen, Mladá Boleslav, Graz, Ghent, Mulhouse and more. Oil: 15 onshore wells: Emsland, Holstein, the Upper Rhine, the Alpine foreland, and Wels in Austria 15 offshore platforms: Mittelplate, Schwedeneck and four import ports 17 real refineries: Schwedt, Leuna, Gelsenkirchen, Wesseling, Karlsruhe, Ingolstadt, Burghausen, Lingen, Heide, Hamburg, Rotterdam, Antwerp and others Germany imports its crude oil. The platforms off Wilhelmshaven, Rostock, Brunsbüttel and Rotterdam stand in for the import terminals. Tips This is a hardcore industrial map with high industry density. The density is intentional: more industries mean more chances to make money. Large warehouses work well as buffers between production chains. The heavy-industry heart is the Ruhr and the Saar. Crude oil has to come a long way: the long hauls from the import ports to the inland refineries are the core of this map. Wine and beer are plentiful, but glass is scarce. Choosing which breweries get the glass is part of the game. The North German Plain is flat, but the central uplands and the Alps are walls for railways. Tunnel through them or follow the river valleys, as the real lines do.