[Friendly_flyer]

Instead, I'd suggest a new 5th "season" called "Late Fall/Early Spring/Mild Winter" or just "Mud" - suitable for any of the European or Russian maps. The map textures would have a sprinkling of snow, especially in shaded areas, with bare trees and building roofs, and mud and dead grass in open areas.

Beginning an late winter have markedly different snow patterns, and would look very different from the air. In early winter, freezing temperatures will have had the ground frozen for a couple of weeks (an important factor during Operation Barbarossa) before snowfall. Mud-on-snow would not be likely to be seen, and the snow would present a fine, but non-covering distribution, like the picture from Lund, Sweden. The snow would most easily be seen on open land. In the spring, snow would have retreated to all higher areas and into the forests, leaving open areas bare. The two seasons would show snow on opposite land surfaces (open land vs forest) , and in opposite formation (light general cover vs blotches).