Mr
tioperete what do you think of my suggestion to add Compiègne at the eastern part of Rouen province on Lord Rommel map ? I don't think it make sens to let Rouen be like that ?
Also, would you like to revised my proposed map of UK ? Your are indeed very knowledgeable in geography and history, so it would be a good think if you revise and correct my proposition (maybe to draw it on Lord Rommel map also) ?
Swansea needs a reshaping, making it connect to Caernarvon by the coast at Snowdonia and align a bit more the border with Cardiff with the Brecon Beacons. I'd convert Cardiff into mountains now that you have Swansea.
I'd make Worcester or Gloucester hills from northern Bristol and part of Birminghan, look at relief map to draw that. Gloucester would be more fit as center oh the region, as Worcester is at the beginning of the plain, but Worcester was planned as the site that the British government would relocate in case of German Invasion, so it's maybe more interesting cause that.
In the south, Reading seems fine, but I wouldn't divide Bournemouth from Portsmouth. I don't see any benefit on it. I'd make Portsmouth hills, especially now that you have Reading for the plains. But you should consider to divide Dover between Hastings and Dover, to create and encircling point in Kent area.
According to me, all the southern coast should be hills.
You can use Cambridge instead Luton for the fun, you know Cambridge and Oxford. Also Cambridge fits better the connection role with Norwich. Here you could just maintain Oxford as it is, but increasing the number of provinces in areas like this one would not harm, you create problems on big fronts so can be done perfectly,
Southend is not a bad adition, but it worked as somehow port extension of London. I'd use Ipswich better, close to 3 times Southend in size and more centered in the province. Ipswich was big natural port and important coastal fortress.
My advice is to completely forget Coventry., while Leicester doesnt seem a bad idea at all.
If you want to add Liverpool, make it the sea way from Manchester making Manchester an inland province. But leave a little border cross from Manchester to Carlisle or the new province there if you decide to touch the area, Consider to make Liverpool, Manchester and Birmingham city terrain. If Birmigham seems to big as city terrain, you can consider to add Shrewsbury in the Welsh Marches, hills or plains at your choice.
Sheffield - Leed should work, but please dont add Nottingham there. Overcrowding the area and you dont really need it as a keypoint.
Merge Middlesbrough with York and make it hills cause the York Moors. Here York would represent more the region than the city of York itself.
You didnt place well Newcastle and Sunderland, they are much closer, but the province design is ok. Just add the Tyne river as border between them.
Here you can consider to make Carlisle a plain and add Lancaster as mountains including a very little part from your actual Manchester and Leeds provinces, and readd the hills between Newcastle and Carlisle in some point like Hexham. You would have the most accurate geography and road-rail connections in that case, but other option is to leave Carlisle as it is ignoring the possibility of Lancaster and Hexham, it would be inexact but not a crime. Also, instead Lancaster, you can use Kendal as most important point in the Lake District and crossroad, then you should not take the little part from your actual Manchester to make Lancaster fit. I'd prioritize Lancaster cause bigger, entrance to the Lakes and more important historically than Kendal, but your choice.
In Scotland, consider the idea of Stranraer or Ayr in Galloway area, as a isolated corner and possible encircling point.
I would give a little part of Glasgow to Fort William to better represent the mountains there, and would consider to separate Perth from Edinburgh using the Forth river for it. Forth would be also the border Perth - Glasgow.
Old Inverness liest east of Ness river, but from XIX century is in both sides of the river. I'd consider to move Inverness east side taking part of Aberdeen, setting its influence into Elgin area, and use something like Dingwall for old Inverness province. Here I have nothing clear, as not touching Inverness is perfectly viable, Dingwall would be the biggest town there and in mid road to , but barely 3,8k people. Anyways, moving Inverness or not, I'd still create a province there, Elgin in that case, and would make impassable the terrain from Aberdeen to Fort William.
Probably, maintaining Inverness and creating Elgin would be the better outcome.
What I would certainly do, it's renaming Scapa Flow as Wick, and locate Scapa Flow, strait connection with Wick, in its true location in Orkney island.
And for sure, do Isle of Man.
