02.05.2008, 16:50
Let's us not forget that "BoB" is not the whole sim. It's the first part. It's unfair to consider Storm of War as just "BoB", but that's the tendency, still, after all this time
"The same" terrain is a sword that cuts both ways here. If you choose to look at Guadalcanal a certain way, you can argue that it is "all the same" and even "just like any other island there". You can also look at a map of England and the Channel coast and consider all the famous landmarks, of which the White Cliffs of Dover are but one. For instance, how many Trafalgar Square and Buckingham Palace equivalents are there in the Solomons? None. No distinctive cities with famous landmarks like Big Ben, just jungle mountains and rivers
So it depends on how you look at the two areas- I can argue that the Solomons is just as "boring" landscape-wise as the Atlantic coast of Europe because they are "just mountainous jungle islands"
The work that the Slot team has done is in my opinion stellar, and I've only seen a little bit of it. It is a long overdue and critical addition to the flawed project Ilya (not Oleg
) and company called Pacific Fighters, probably the single largest omission of that omission-laden project. The Slot should have been the first map they did, but honestly, had they done it, it would have been as rife with error as the Eastern Front maps were when Il2 shipped (and still are) so I'm glad it was the Slot Team and not RRG when all is said and done
"The same" terrain is a sword that cuts both ways here. If you choose to look at Guadalcanal a certain way, you can argue that it is "all the same" and even "just like any other island there". You can also look at a map of England and the Channel coast and consider all the famous landmarks, of which the White Cliffs of Dover are but one. For instance, how many Trafalgar Square and Buckingham Palace equivalents are there in the Solomons? None. No distinctive cities with famous landmarks like Big Ben, just jungle mountains and rivers
So it depends on how you look at the two areas- I can argue that the Solomons is just as "boring" landscape-wise as the Atlantic coast of Europe because they are "just mountainous jungle islands"
The work that the Slot team has done is in my opinion stellar, and I've only seen a little bit of it. It is a long overdue and critical addition to the flawed project Ilya (not Oleg
) and company called Pacific Fighters, probably the single largest omission of that omission-laden project. The Slot should have been the first map they did, but honestly, had they done it, it would have been as rife with error as the Eastern Front maps were when Il2 shipped (and still are) so I'm glad it was the Slot Team and not RRG when all is said and done