[GilB57]

With Asheshouse agreement, I finally decided to do rework on his BoF map but also with seasonal variants for different moments of the war.

Here are all the airfields that I'll try to include:

(sorry for the big picture !!!)

Main maps I plan to release :
1- Ardennes battle 1944 (possible scenario for Bodenplatte)
2- Blitzkrieg 1940

Some airbases will be on 1940 map, other will be on the 1944 one.

Complete list of airfields :

UK: (7 airfields)
Boxted
Bradwell Bay
Eastchurch
Felixstowe (airsea rescue - hydravions)
Hawkinge
Lympne
Manston

FR: (20 airfields)
Abbeville
Amiens Glisy
Arras
Attigny*
Calais Marck
Cambrai Niergnies
Clastres
Etaples Le Touquet
Fresnoy Folny ALG
Laon Athies
La Malmaison
Le Quesnoy Vertain
Lille Seclin
Merville
Montdidier
Norrent Fontes
Senon *
Tournes-Belval
Villers-lès-Guise
Vitry en Artois

BE16 airfields)
Anvers Deurne
Asch ALG
Beauvechain (Le Culot)
Bruxelles Evere
Chièvres
Courtrai Welvegen
Diest Schaffen
Gand StDenis Westrem
Liège Bierset
Melsbroek
Nivelles
Ophoven ALG
St Trond
St Hubert
Tirlemont Gossoncourt (Goetsenhoven)
Ursel

NL: (7 airfields)
Bergen Op Zoom (Woensdrecht)
Eindhoven
Gilze Rijen
Heesch ALG
Rotterdam Waalhaven
Vlissingen
Volkel

All: (10 airfields)
Aachen Merzbruck
Bonninghardt
Gosh Asperde
Krefeld
MonchenGladbach Holt
SandWeiler (Luxembourg)
Trier Euren*
Venlo
Vogelsang
Wesel west

* : those ones are less than 10 kms out of the map, and they will appear on the border.

I'll use this post to let you know about work progress (currently: search for airfields plans or aerial photos)

[{HVY-E}Jinxx]

Looks like a winner.
What scale are you going to be working with? 1:1, 1:2, 1:3?

S!

[JAMF]

Impressive! hock: I hope it will be a great success.

[KG64_Cnopicilin]

Nice to see a new project. I hope you all the best with that.

[GilB57]

What scale are you going to be working with? 1:1, 1:2, 1:3?

The basis is Asheshouse BoF map, and I will use it so, ... same scale

EARLY texture tests (Ardennes winter 44-45) :


Charleville-Mézière


Sedan ...

[GilB57]

Ardennes again (trying textures):

[ColaBen]

Yummy !!
ColaBen

[GilB57]

Another little update:

Reworked map_h in the Ardennes.
New snowy texs for fields, towns & villages.





To be continued ...

[SlowBurn68]

Is there an update to the progress of this map? I assume when finished, it will have buildings?

Thanks...

[GilB57]

Sorry for the lack of update (no reaction seemed to me as no interest, maybe) ...
Yes, buildings will be there (autopopulation is already done).

Screencaps (tested under 4.09M + UP 2.01) on Rotterdam area & Waalhaven airfield:





...and also tested on 4.10 (+SAS mod activator):



The map will be extended by 30kms to north, south & east. Interesting cities to be included : Arnhem, Duisbourg-Oberhausen-Essen area, Trier & Reims in the south.
The first to be released will be winter 44-45 for Wacht Am Rhein & Bodenplatte.

The map is far to be completed and you'll have to wait, I'm afraid

[SlowBurn68]

Thanks for the update Gil, the map looks great! The other cities you intend to include will make for some good mission making. Great work and keep us posted.

SlowBurn...

[Murph]

It will be so nice to have a good map for the Ardennes Offensive, one that you cannot see across from altitude. There were a huge number of sorties flown by both sides during the "Battle of the Bulge".

[GilB57]

WIP on this map will continued on a new (and more explicit) topic:

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