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Offline CurtissP-6EHawk

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« Reply #15 on: December 15, 2002, 07:45:07 PM »
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Russian P2 contains Oranienbaum's big airbase and Kronstadt's Baltic Sea Fleet base. Murmansk (A37) and Kirkenes (A41) had the same stories.


Is that where the port is actualy on that island just east of P-2? If so that explains it. I promis it was not a whine, just a question to understand.  Also, if it is connected to the P-2 base, does it get captured when the bas is captured? I have noticed a lot of cities with guns that are not on the map. Do these base change when ajoining bases are captured? This is an intense map and gonna take a lot of getting use to.
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« Reply #16 on: December 15, 2002, 09:52:24 PM »
Great job Kanttori!  Had a great time fending off those Ruskies in my Buffalo.. err FM2 :)   Any plans for a winter version?

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« Reply #17 on: December 15, 2002, 10:07:50 PM »
Thanks Kanttori.

Its a great setup and a great map.

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« Reply #18 on: December 16, 2002, 12:25:38 AM »
I am having such a great time in CT I will be sad to see this setup go. Fantastic work and alot of fun!

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« Reply #19 on: December 16, 2002, 03:58:35 AM »
Ack in the little villages:

Yes, I have but about 30 little villages with 8 houses (they are barracks) and two 20 mm flaks to both sides here and there near frontlines. They are owned by countries like cities and you cannot capture them. Of course you can catch perk points when you attack against them!

Let's think they are partisan's camps and they are fighting persistent there!:D

Some background of partisans:

Both Finland and Russia made very much partisan's offensives during whole Continuation War but not Germans (they used Finnish guerillas, because Germans didn't know how to live in our big forestes).

Finnish partisans stayed somethimes couple of months deep behind the Russians fronts. Finnish and Russian partisans had one big difference: Finns never attack agains civils but Russians did it. For that's the reason Finns hated Russian partisans.

The Port/airfield bases:

P2 Kronstadt Fleet Base situated in that little isle in front of Leningrad and Oranienbaum airbase about there where it is now. When you capture the town between them, you own those both!

I have placed all the bases in this map exactly to their real life locations. It was hard work to find a good Russian airbase's maps and in was thinking little while they are locked to Kreml's Cellar!:D

The ack:

I have tried to make the Ack very historical, too: For ex. in Karelian Isthmus and Leningrad area was very heavy flak and in summer 1944 it was unbeliavable heavy, our pilots was really afraid of it!

There were couple Ju88 inevitable divebomber attacks in Tali-Ihantala rejection fights (June 1944) which was almost suicide attacks and pilots knew it. In spite of this the "Junnu" crews bombed the bridges behind Russians and cut their maintenance. They knew that Russe come to Finland if they don't do it. And they did it...

Ok, this is like history lesson, so I stop this now! But if you want to know more from Continuation War, just ask!:D
« Last Edit: December 16, 2002, 04:00:54 AM by kanttori »
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« Reply #20 on: December 16, 2002, 07:20:39 AM »
Thanks Kanttori I dont know much of anything about the Finn's participation in the War. This is interesting stuff.

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« Reply #21 on: December 16, 2002, 10:40:50 AM »
Just wanted to add my thank you here for the great map and aircraft skins.  I had been taking a long break from AH due to boredom, and this setup brought me back in.  The airfields and cities are a nice touch.  To all the mappers/skinners in AH: keep up the good work!

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« Reply #22 on: December 16, 2002, 07:58:52 PM »
kanttori,

With the week 1/2 over, once again I want to thank you for what you have done.  I think that this has been the most exciting week for the CT yet.  
I have always enjoyed every CT set-up so far.  This particular set-up, however, has drawn many new faces to our arena, and threads on the BB.  The CT certainly has received more attention this week than it ever has in the past.  Your well-planned map and skins are responsible for this attention.  I’m afraid that 1.11 is likely to steal a bit of your thunder, but hopefully we will have a repeat of your map soon.  Single-handedly (OK, perhaps with a bit of help from your friends) you have made a big difference.

Thank you,

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« Reply #23 on: December 16, 2002, 08:45:23 PM »
This is truly a beautiful map, paljon kaunis.

But I like it also because the density of ground objects and their distribution makes it feel VERY realistic.  More so than any other AH or WB map I have seen.  Great job.  Kiitoksia.