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EDIT: Mod version 1.0 is here:
http://allaircraftsimulations.com/forum ... 25&t=30283
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Discussion of the WIP map:

Thanks to Farang65 for giving me a starter map a year ago for this project. The Caucasus map is coming along slowly. Last winter I had computer problems and since then I've worked on other projects but now I'm devoting more time to this map. Much of the repetetive textures are replaced with better and more natural looking ones. There are three city textures, village, small town, and city, and these all have their own templates.

The map itself is a large area from Maykop to Grozny, down to Tbilisi, and it includes part of the Black Sea. My WIP step one is to complete only the area between Mineralnye Vody and Grozny. This area is where most of the heavy fighting took place so it is most important (I'm anxious to start making missions for it). All the towns and villages in this area are mapped and in the process of being populated.

There are airfields completed for both sides. Most use visible runway plates and taxi plates. Some have two runways side-by-side. There are a three small airfields with invisible plates and these are intended for the all-female Night Bomber Regiment known as the Night Witches. which . The Night Witches saw their first combat in this region flying their fPo-2 biplanes.

Roads and railways are also in place. Cultivated fields textures show fields of wheat, corn, and maize, depicting late summer - early fall time period. Looking at Google maps you can see that this is a heavily agriculturalized region. It would have been the same during the German blitz of summer-fall 1942 when the Russians were taken by surprise by the German deep and fast penetration well behind the front line. I've read several accounts of crops still being in the fields and for example, panzers hiding in corn fields. I used the OLD IL2 field texture (with the large yellow fields) to represent this. So don't hate me for using it ~ :lol:

The German offensive was halted by stubborn Russian defense in the Mozdok area on the Terek River. A bold new German offensive was launched against the Russian weak left flank. This took the defense by surprise and it quickly folded under the large panzer force. This screenshot shows where the Germans poured into the valley at the base of the Caucasus Mountains at Chikola with Novy Urukh in the background.


Dur-Dur was one of the next villages taken. (Dur-Dur is one of my favorite town names, DUR!)


Digora in foreground with Karman in background - the next towns to fall.


Ardon on the Ardon River - next in line to fall to the German panzers.


Town of Gizel. Where the Germans were stopped, just in front of Ordzhonikidze (Vladikavkus) - the German main objective.


Over Gizel, looking northeast with Beslan in top left corner.


Looking west. Guarding the gate through the mountains to Tbilisi, Georgia. Ordzhonikidze below plane, Gizel above plane.


Beslan and its airfield. Site of the infamous terrorist attack on a schoolhouse, in more recent times.


Ordzhonikidzevskaya (smaller town to the east) and its airfield.


Asinovskaya airfield (seen below La-5) - one of the Night Witches fields.