You're very welcome! Now trying to get the mapping stuff cleaned up. Here's a peek (NB: automatically generated normal/height maps are pretty bad, but hopefully you get an idea about what's possible). Edit: I know about the seam. I must have broken something while cleaning up the normal mapping. Will look into it. Edit2: Never mind. I win the stupid mistake prize.
id say no, though using a world map for the random map selection screen would be a good, innovative way to handle that part of gameplay, as well as regional maps for campaigns