28.01.2010, 17:56
Continuing with Turtledove, his alternate WW2 would make a good background for a campaign, and there is a website (www.balbo-net.org) that has some good skins of CSN and CSAAF planes.
I've created some of my own USA vs CSA off-line missions based on Turtledove's war. A real problem is finding maps and buildings that look like the continental US. Since one theatre in the war is north mexico (part of the CSA in Turtledove's war) and the southwestern USA, I usually use several of the desert maps, MTO, and Darwin. Good US-style frame houses can be gotten from the objects created for Finland and Norway, and some of the Scandinavian and Slovakian churches look American. Some of the middle east stuff and the really good Egyptian stuff can be made into nice Indian pueblos and mexican villages. Oddly, the Hawaii stuff isn't all that helpful because its so tropical. What's really missing are US-looking business buildings (skyscrapers, offices. department stores, etc), so a good-looking US city his hard to manage. Confederates get a mix of types with CSA skins in the balbo-net site (the Wildcat, Hellcat, P40, P-38, G-50, and Bf-110) plus some others - mostly British and French - while the US gets a variety of US planes balbo-net does not have CSA skins for as well as other - mostly German - types. I round both sides out with a mix of Japanese, Italian, and Soviet types. I use the stock US insignia in HSFX for the US.
It's all really silly pretending North Africa is west Texas or New Mexico, and that the USA flies FW-190's, but fun
I've created some of my own USA vs CSA off-line missions based on Turtledove's war. A real problem is finding maps and buildings that look like the continental US. Since one theatre in the war is north mexico (part of the CSA in Turtledove's war) and the southwestern USA, I usually use several of the desert maps, MTO, and Darwin. Good US-style frame houses can be gotten from the objects created for Finland and Norway, and some of the Scandinavian and Slovakian churches look American. Some of the middle east stuff and the really good Egyptian stuff can be made into nice Indian pueblos and mexican villages. Oddly, the Hawaii stuff isn't all that helpful because its so tropical. What's really missing are US-looking business buildings (skyscrapers, offices. department stores, etc), so a good-looking US city his hard to manage. Confederates get a mix of types with CSA skins in the balbo-net site (the Wildcat, Hellcat, P40, P-38, G-50, and Bf-110) plus some others - mostly British and French - while the US gets a variety of US planes balbo-net does not have CSA skins for as well as other - mostly German - types. I round both sides out with a mix of Japanese, Italian, and Soviet types. I use the stock US insignia in HSFX for the US.
It's all really silly pretending North Africa is west Texas or New Mexico, and that the USA flies FW-190's, but fun