Charta - a venture into boardgaming

[The Lazy One]

Cheers everyone!

While I've been recently working on some minor commissions, most of my cartography attention is now focused on a project of my own, which is both a cartography endeavour and a boargame project.
The game itself is light and not too complex, although it requires strategy and a bit of geometric eye.
The base of it consist in combining modular tiles in creating a map. Game-wise, each tile should contain very simple informations (roads, forests, villages, cities, coasts), but I'll obviously end up adding loads of minor elements in each.

That was a very preliminary test. No forests were implemented (which allow to interrupt roads) yet.



The project started a few months ago, and that's the current prototype, more or less.







The current experiments are more focued on the look, and it's where i'd seek your help!

Now, here's a flat overlay over the linework. The result is quite plain but somehow gives an old paper look.



I tried with watercolor brushes (grutBrushes, which i highly recommend), and that's where i'm at right now.
I have to say, i'm extremely happy of the relism of the watercolour itself, but i'm not sold on the overall look.



At this point, I'm really after suggestions and ideas. Feedbacks of any kind are greatly appreciated!

Cheers,
Jack