Would be fun to have a map that has a PT boat focused area or two, with spawns that put you near an area of winding rivers, a maze of swamps, canals, etc. This might be a little more like the riverine warfare of Vietnam than anything that happened much in WW2, but it would be fun, and there were lots of coastal small boat actions around Guadalcanal/New Guinea, as well as along the European coasts. Would like to see the following features for this area:
- A non-CV affiliated port for each country at each edge of a the central area in question (with no outside gv spawns in).
- Several closely spaced spawns much like you have in the tank towns of many maps.
- Have barge traffic in these waters using the tugs and barges that used to resupply the ports (and are still present on some maps).
- A sailing distance to the action in line with the usual GV drive from a spawn to a base or town (roughly 5 minutes max).
- Main channels that might provide less cover, but a more direct route; but also some small winding channels with trees and cover near the banks that require you to actually maneuver the PT boat to traverse, which would set up close action and ambushes and such. Maybe even some side-channels and such for hiding places.
- Have a road linking the bases that runs through the swampy inshore area so you could use M3's to capture the other ports, but have the roads close and visible to the channels so that they could be interdicted by PT boats potentially.
So how is this different from the PT boat lake spawns we have now? Two things:
- The ones we have now except for one map perhaps are just in a lake with no cover, so they just degenerate into a long range shooting match until somebody can camp the spawn.
- The current ones are mostly pointless other than for the novelty of PT vs PT action. The objective or reason for the action that is provided for tank and airplane combat (attacking and defending bases) is not present.
There is the one map we have now that has the rivers with PT spawns in them, and that is kind of what gave me the idea. That is a good start, but would like to see it connect to the ocean and be in a more coastal area, perhaps a whole island that is set up for this purpose (albeit a fairly small one to accommodate the slow speed of PT boats).
It goes without saying of course that there has to be a place to safely land the PT boats!!!
