The Container Port

Dimensions - [32 x 22]

DPI - 200

Image size - 6400 x 4400

Hi everyone!

It is time for another battle map drop - “The Container Port”. I’ve received numerous requests to draw a shipping dock battle map for a long time now, so I'm glad I managed to get this one created for y'all. This container port map isn’t exactly a shipping dock, but I feel it will be a lot more interesting to play on.

The scale of this map is pretty large. Until now, I have been drawing maps on the 1 grid square = 5 ft scale as a standard. But due to the humongous size of these container ships, the map itself had to be super large. Drawing at the usual scale of 5 ft squares would have crippled my computer, thus the scale here is 1 sq = 10 ft. 

This makes no difference to those of you who play on virtual tabletop softwares however, as everything was drawn to real-world scale and you can use the grid-less version of the map and place your own sized grids in.

Creation Notes

The Container Port took a lot more time to paint than I had planned for and the process was a little touch and go for a while. 

I think this was due to the different types of lights and colors I chose to add to the map. It was tricky to find the right colored lights that would combine together to form a pleasing image. 

Then there were the containers of different colors thrown into the mix, which just made the map very distracting to look at. In the end, I found that it looked better if I made most of the containers either white or the typical red-brown colors. Takeaway: never underestimate colorful night-time maps. Lesson learned.

Variants

Cranes Overlay

There are two types of container cranes present on this map (just FYI): gantry (or yard) cranes are the small ones and quay cranes are the gigantic ones. Due to the height and size of quay cranes, much vision gets blocked. So here are optional PNG asset overlays for you to add as an additional layer to the map so player tokens can run underneath them.

Tip: If you’re using Foundry VTT, the battle map would look even cooler if you added a light underneath the crane layer.

Midnight Loading

With this map variant, the cargo doors of the container ship has dropped down and there are unmarked crates sitting off to the side getting ready to be loaded. 

This creates many possible encounter scenario possibilities. But the one that stuck in my mind the whole time I was drawing this map was that the crates contain a new form of street drug that just arrived from overseas. The crates are getting ready to be loaded onto an unmarked truck and the players must attempt to interrupt the process and find out who the buyer is.

Patreon Supporter Downloads

Bronze

• The Container Port (watermark free, 200 DPI, grid + grid-less versions)

Go to Bronze downloads section - https://www.patreon.com/posts/42195213

Silver

• All above +
• Crane overlays (PNG overlay asset)

Go to Silver downloads section - https://www.patreon.com/posts/42195334

Gold

• All above +
• Midnight Loading

Go to Gold downloads section - https://www.patreon.com/posts/42195417

This map was proudly brought to you by my Patreon subscribers. Without their continued support, battle maps like this one just would not be possible. If you appreciate the work I do, please consider supporting with what you can. Every little bit helps.