I love this section of the forums and check it regularly, I've downloaded my pick of the new maps like crazy and they're absolutely fantastic. Great work fellers, awesome stuff!
Malta was conspicuously missing, and I can't wait for Canon's BoB map. Love the retexturing work and default map updates, top stuff Istvan and others!
I also have a long time wish list, but realise that I should spend the effort and time to learn to do at some of them myself. That would take a while though.
Rabaul (New Britain) is a key area of the South Pacific. But this is difficult since as the target of air operations launched from Guadalcanal and New Guinea this map would ideally be so huge it would include those locations for a full, multiple hour flight operation of genuine historical feeling. It would have to be a big map and should include Lae in western Papua/New Guinea which was the other main Japanese airbase of the region. This would open both USMC mid-war and US 5th Air Force and RAAF campaigns right up to make a seriously immersive and historical South Pacific experience. As it is only small field bases are available for Japanese campaigning in New Guinea and you just have to spawn in the air for ground based air operations against US Guadalcanal.
Perhaps the object count could be kept minimal to keep fps with such a large scale but I think, significant project?
Large area maps of Belgium and the Ruhr would also be very well received (i.e. north-western Germany and the Low Countries), for western front late war mission building and campaigns. Sort of like the way the Berlin map stretches into south-western Poland and gives a nice area for the late Eastern Front. But the Berlin map doesn't stretch into north-west areas very much, and the Ardennes map is very small and localised, which altogether cripples historical and immersive western Front campaign building.
The Malta map has been provided and that was another big point. I love it and am very thankful.
An immersive and it seems sizeable Channel map is in progress so fantastic for that, naturally I've downloaded the improvised Channel maps so far featured and like them very much. We're all obviously on the same page about what improves il2 tremendously and that is awesome.
A Philippines map would be fantastic (better if included Formosa), I don't think I'm saying anything people don't already know here.
And Tokyo but that's a tricky one because central Japan was assaulted out of the Marianas and Iwo Jima, so an all round flight operation would again have to be a tremendously huge and probably prohibitive map size, out to Iwo Jima at least. Is there some way of combining existing maps to form much larger ones which include those locations?
Southern operations at the Eastern Front have been taken care of with the latest official patch and that was oh so very welcome. Oleg and the team did a great job there. Of course a Belarus map with some of eastern Poland is missing if you want to fly for Army Group Centre. Perhaps that could be large enough to include all of Poland and its German border. And Moscow itself, there were some Luftwaffe assaults on it. The north Eastern Front is beautifully taken care of between Kurland Peninsula and Gulf of Finland maps.
Northern Germany and East Prussia is conspicuously missing, this is where all the Kriegsmarine bases are. It also runs into Poland so maybe this could be the map which has Poland/Germany and a bit of Belarus? At any rate many Allied strategic targets would be found on such a map.
Last but not least, Tunisia
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