I've always loved the idea of
gaming in historical Europe, and
here's a cool hexmap of Europe I stumbled across online. Looks like it was made with
Hexographer, which is a fun program to play around with, if you haven't before. Numbered and everything. Its pretty easy to cut up / crop, in Paint, into bite-size regions, so you can enjoy that road-trip from Brugge to Rome, or guard the pilgrimage trails of the Crusade-era Middle East:
