13.02.2008, 17:21
If I wasn't busy doing Northeast France this is probably the area I would have gone for.
In campaign terms it has all the attractions of a long slogging match where one side starts off badly outclassed but gradually recovers, stands ground and fights back.
There is a lot that could be done by taking the existing Imphal map and extending it north to pick up Kohima where fighting was going on at the same time, and then extending east you pick up the area where the Chinese forces with Stilwell were coming onto the scene.
The advantage of extending incrementally like this is that each step is easier to achieve.
I've toyed with the idea of putting together SRTM data for the whole of Burma in one go.
That would be about 1400x1200km stretching from The Gulf of Martaban to Calcutta and north to Fort Hertz. Well of course it would be too big to work? Might be fun finding out though.
-- and once you've discovered it doesn't work you can always slice up the SRTM data into smaller areas instead.
In campaign terms it has all the attractions of a long slogging match where one side starts off badly outclassed but gradually recovers, stands ground and fights back.
There is a lot that could be done by taking the existing Imphal map and extending it north to pick up Kohima where fighting was going on at the same time, and then extending east you pick up the area where the Chinese forces with Stilwell were coming onto the scene.
The advantage of extending incrementally like this is that each step is easier to achieve.
I've toyed with the idea of putting together SRTM data for the whole of Burma in one go.
That would be about 1400x1200km stretching from The Gulf of Martaban to Calcutta and north to Fort Hertz. Well of course it would be too big to work? Might be fun finding out though.
-- and once you've discovered it doesn't work you can always slice up the SRTM data into smaller areas instead.