🇪🇹 PLAINS AND HIGHLAND HUNTING IN AFRICA - Walia Controlled Hunting Area, Ethiopia

[foggy drum]

Welcome to Ethiopia! Here you can hunt in one of the only large mountain ranges in Africa, the Highlands! With over 20 species available on the hunting block, you will not find a better place to hunt in Eastern Africa. There are Mountains, Montane Forests, Plains, and Wetlands to explore, alongside some of our most popular residents. Animals such as the flamboyant Gelada, the humble Beisa, or the newest member of our roster, the indomitable African Elephant.
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Species List:

*Returning Species:
Lesser Kudu (Remodel)
Warthog (Remodel & TruTusks)
Lion (Remodel)
Cape (Nile) Buffalo (Remodel & TruHorns)

New Species:
Chestnut-Naped Francolin (C1)
Bale Mountain Vervet (C1)
Black and White Colobus (C1)
Kirk’s Dik-Dik (C2)
Klipspringer (C2)
Black-Backed Jackal (C2)
Ethiopian Wolf (C2)
Gelada (C3)
Hamadryas Baboon (C3)
Abyssinian Bushbuck (C3)
Sommerring’s Gazelle (C4)
Gerenuk (C4)
Nile Lechwe (C4)
Walia Ibex (C4)
Somali Ostrich (C4)
Mountain Nyala (C6)
Beisa (C6)
Nile Crocodile (C7)
African Elephant (C10) (LOW POPULATION)
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Reserve Weapon

.505 Gibbs

The .505 Gibbs is a rather rare hunting caliber that isn’t commonly used, but it is well capable of taking down tough and dangerous animals such as Crocodiles, Lions, Buffalo, and Elephants
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[cerulean saffron]

Mountain Nyala as a Class 4 species despite being in the same size class as Nilgai (a Class 6 species) is an interesting choice

[foggy drum]

Tbh I kinda thought they were the same size as Common Nyala until you mentioned this, is they have since been moved to class 6 (although I’ll still die on the hill that Nilgai should’ve been Class 8 based on how tough they are irl).

[foggy drum]

Can’t believe I didn’t even thing of adding these guys, but what would everyone think of adding Ethiopian Wolves? They’re endangered, but there’s nowhere else that these animals could be added to.

[cerulean saffron]

The Walia Ibex also exist in Ethiopia

I would take the Ethiopian Wolf and Walia Ibex over the Elephant since there are many potential reserve settings that can have elephants but only one that could have Ethiopian Wolf and Walia

[foggy drum]

I personally think that Elephants would be great for this map as you can technically hunt Elephants in Ethiopia, although irl there isn’t any available hunting block for them. I could add in Ethiopian Wolves and still keep the Elephants seeing as that would make the total roster only 22 species.

[blazing juniper]

Err how would a great one elephant work though? and yes a low pop but still make them herd animals

[maiden storm]

I'd honestly be much happier to have a plains game focused map, particularly with a wide selection of antelope species

Also, there's a good opportunity for a unique rifle. A .458 Win Mag singleshot

[night citrus]

☝️id take anything over elephants in any map

[cerulean saffron]

Unlike you I would still like at least one African map to have elephants

[night citrus]

I like elephants dont get me wrong but to me I feel like something could go wrong with them due to them being such a large animal but still this is a great map

[foggy drum]

They could fit in Seseka, despite what people say. They’re about 2.5x as tall as a Cape Buffalo, and therefore could fit perfectly fine on Massive and potentially even XL platforms. XL Plaques would also fit them although their necks would be about the size of the plaque, and would sufficiently fill them out. I don’t think it’s possible to have Elephants without a small population of 50-75 on a map at max.

[foggy drum]

I have since added Walia Ibex to the map. I intended to add them and thought I did but simply forgot to put them on the list.

[foggy drum]

I feel there’s a pretty wide variety of antelopes on this map, seeing as there’s 8 of them (Kirk’s Dik Dik, Klipspringer, Abyssinian Bushbuck, Soemmerring’s Gazelle, Gerenuk, Nile Lechwe, Mountain Nyala, and Beisa), and this map would be about 50% Plains as it is, alongside Highland and Marshland environments. Still, I get what you mean.

[plain kestrel]

Love this idea!

[foggy drum]

Soon I’ll start to make range maps of the species on the map, once the map is finished being drawn

[night citrus]

If you don't mind me asking how do you draw or make your maps

[foggy drum]

I don’t draw them, @old sleet does, but I believe he draws them in Procreate. You can find it in the App Store and play store.