Gatso, with regard to my remark about elevations, the thing to bear in mind is aircraft performance. Bombers don't climb as well as fighters, so some people think that the solution is to have high-alt airfields for them. The trouble with that is that bombers then have difficulties actually taking off at the high-altitude places. The things are designed to start off at the bottom of the atmosphere, work their way up, then come back down again. If they were designed to start off from high altitude (and even 3000ft ASL is unusually high altitude for an airfield! 0-1000ft is more like it) they'd be designed and built differently.
By all means put in a few high-alt airfields, but if you do, please make them rare. But what would be better IMO would be to have just VH's up at high altitude, give those wanting some ground action more chance of setting to without too frequent interruption from those pesky pilots... :-). High-alt terrain - sure; I've had plenty of fun trying to struggle over mountain ranges with buffs or paratroops in the past, but taking off on mountain tops? No!
I have to say that whilst the MA isn't generally my cup of tea - it's not what I have a sub to AH for - I quite like the Mindanao terrain, because there are some nice large bays where one can do a spot of ocean patrolling in B17s or suchlike, looking for enemy CVs - and the CVs have plenty of room to try sneaking up to enemy territory unseen. Flying over and through the mountainous terrain is fun, but I dislike the mountaintop airfields - due to teh performance issues noted above, they just make things too easy for fighter pilots and too hard for bomber pilots.
Now, if we could just have bomber airfields at sea level and drop fighter airfields about 5k BELOW sea level... ;-) (chuckle...)
Y'know, it might even be an idea one day for someone to do a terrain of this sort with GVs primarily in mind, then add in airfields in sensible places and amounts. That'd encourage more of a ground war, which gives the JABO ers something to keep em ocupied whilst us buffers types can try striking the logistics of the foe, AND it'd make airfields more prized. Could also lead to teh interesting prospect of a side losing its last airfield but still having enough VH sites to fight back and recapture a field, maybe...
Esme
PS. If you had high mountains andsnow in the centre, then a temperate zone, with deserts around the outside, it'd be rather like the Discworld, setting of a comedy/fantasy series by the author Terry Pratchett. Heck, once I DO get to grips with the TE, I might just give that a shot... just so's people could bomb the village where the character that my nickname comes from lives... :-) Hmmm... that upside-down mountain in Uberwald might be tricky to model...
Esme (any relation to Ms Weatherwax being purely the result of not enough dried frog pills affecting the readers mind )
