I'm going on a bit further today, Kurt.
I love the fort graphics, by the way - but are they placed accurately, historically (I mean, they're not just there for 'fun'?)
And the map is very beautiful. But I notice - if I can make a very humble cosmetic suggestion - that some of the villages/towns are done in a more schematic style than others. So in the pic below, for example, we see a schematic approach;
These villages 'nestle' amongst quite steep terrain, yet they seem to have (to me) 'unnatural' boundaries, either nicely round or straight lines, which don't hug the hillsides and follow the contours, which mark a rigid difference between hill and town. And were there really no forests or brush around and about? These villages just look a little unnatural to me compared to:
Achen is done in a more 'realistic' natural style (which I love).
To a certain extent map graphics are just taste, of course. You can look at the maps in COTA, for example, and to me they are very schematic (more like military planning maps), very different to, for example, the astounding naturalistic Dutch and German maps coming out in Westwall, or even all the stock maps in BFTB. The style of Achen, above, is much more like the superb BFTB style, but then the villages and comparative lack of detail in the first pic look more like the schematic COTA style. A mix. I would love you to tart up the schematic areas a bit, so that they were the same as the Achen type style. But it's just my aesthetic preference. Doesn't make much diff to gameplay.
I'll let you know how I get on today.
Peter