[WIP] Channel map

[Verdun1916]

Originally Posted by arnoritter

- It wouldn't add a new type of mission. A map of europe should be made with the strategic bombing in mind.


- Yeah, a map with Germany on it would bring that, too.


- Yep, but such a map should include Germany


- You don't plan to have GERMANY on it - wasted

Strategic bombing could be used with the B-24 in mind on this map aswell. They did not always opperate at their maximum ranges! And stategic bombing was done by medium bombers aswell.

You talk about ONE type of new mission yet a map like this can be used for SEVERAL/MANY types of missions from fighter missions, fighter-bomber missions, anti-shipping missions, tactical to strategic bombing missions! Just to mention a few!

Would it be cool to have a map covering the entire western Europe from Germanys east border in the east to Ireland in the west and from the Spanish border in the south to the northern tip of Scotland in the north?

Sure it would! But would it be practical? No, probably not!

A map specialized for long range strategic bombing would be cool for those who would actually spend hour after hour flying the B-24 to reach a target and then hour after hour flying back home. But to the vast majority of players who probably would not have the time and interest to fly those kinds of missions a map like that would be considered a waste of time, especially if a map that size would affect the playabillity of the game due to it's share size. In that case a map of part of Japan would be better suited with a WAST expanse of Pacific Ocean and an Pacific Island with an US bomber base in the other end.

Not as fun off course as a huge western Europe map but it would be more practical.

However, this Channel Map will not be a waste of time for the vast majority of IL-2 players since it caters to the need/want of many and it can still be used for shorter/medium range stategic bombing. And it will hopefully be in a size that is practical for most players computers to handle.

Germany does not need to be on a Channel map!

An alternative for you strategic bomber fans would be a map with a wide stretch of North Sea in the middle with a Dutch/German coastline in the east end and a British coastline in the west end. Wast areas of sea would make a long range map far more practical than a long range map with densly populated landmasses.

[Nil]

I am looking forward to fly in this map! and I think it will be a very useful map!

[_1SMV_Gitano]

As I wrote, the map is for cross-channel operations. There is plenty of room for bombers, even heavy ones. In any case I stress that there were no operationl airfields of RAF Bomber Command and the 8th AF in the area I chose. There will be some airfields used by the 9th AF (Boreham, Chippin Ongar and Matching) and RAF no.2 Group (e.g. Lasham, Dunsfold and others) medium bombers though.

For strategic bombing a map of the North Sea, including east anglia and other "bomber counties" as well as the Netherlands and parts of Germany would fit better.

cheers