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General Forums => Aces High General Discussion => Topic started by: Wanker on November 30, 2001, 12:37:00 PM
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Thanks to 10Bears and the whole CM Terrain Team. Excellent job guys! :)
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WOW!!!! Holy vodka that's beautiful. Put it in the CT too !!
BTW, is that mid air arena seating at A1? :)
Westy
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Hello,
Could someone tell me where to download some
of the terrains you mention in SEA?
I go to the special events area and cannot find it. Any help please!
Texman
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didnt sea it either :) tease
[ 11-30-2001: Message edited by: Wotan ]
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I just logged on and went to straight to the Special Events arena and the Stalingrad terrain is what is being used in there.
Westy
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Just log in to the Specail Events Arena Tex...it should auto-download for you.
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Congrads, CM team!!
I know 10bears is a happy puppy right now.
A big <S> for all the hard effort that went into making this map available.
NUTTZ
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All I can say is WOW the russian front!
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Of the 300,000 who died at this battle... 150,000 froze to death..
Oh man when I started this project I did the usual web searches for any order of battle articles, any battle maps etc. Had heard but really had no idea just how bloody... bloody this thing was. Who was in charge?, How did the Germans finds themselves surrounded at Stalingrad.. Why was this city so important that Hitler ordered it held at all cost? And why are they doing all this in the worse winter in 50 years?
Theres three ways into the city. Northern Central, and southern. Non of em’ easy. 6th Army Headquarters in the “pocket” can send out tanks to any of the 4 bases surrounding the city. In fact they can change history defy Hitler's order, and spawn point their way across the map!.. Push those Ivan’s back baby!
Map made to be tank friendly.
Ain’t nobody capturing downtown Stalingrad with cargo planes... not with 96 manable gun positions... Not when its divided into three sections, each section has to be captured at the same time. Otherwise it would break down into urban warfare and a war of attrition. More tanks spawning into a smoking ruin of a once proud city. We don’t want that. -g-
I expect Spawn-Point-Row in central Stalingrad to be a bloody boulvard indeed. These are the entry points for the surrounding bases.
Only 25 bases or so but I bet this isn’t an easy map to win.
Check out F1 “Fighter Town”.. Wish this base could be made neutral. Select a P51 and hit the “h’ for hell.. heheh don’t forget to put down a flap!! you only have 2,030 feet. Another spawn point there starts you at 15k.. Relax purists we aren't using this base for events :)
Don’t worry about the train-track tile... I had an extra tile and didn’t know when the new editor would be out... (downloading it right now) will use that tile for something else. The bases along the train route are supposed to be depots.
Also now with streets, can lay out Stalingrad more better. Clean it up have actual city streets.. you can see it from miles away.
Thanks to Nuttz for working on this He can come back and work on it more anytime ;)
Few other ideas suggestions read on this board... Buzzbait and them so there’ll be plenty updates. Ideas I got from Il2 demo..
10Bears--
[ 11-30-2001: Message edited by: 10Bears ]
[ 11-30-2001: Message edited by: 10Bears ]
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Great terrain 10Bears. I just got done flying around in it for about 5 minutes and I think I'm coming down with pneumonia.
Not for the CPU challenged though, FR struggles over the city in low clouds.
I can't wait for an event where we can use it.
ra
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One small glitch. The clipboard is not showing the Volga properly. If you get down and fly over the river, it shows your position way nw of it. The field positions show correctly, but the river does not. Other than that, vewy vewy nice. Stalingrad kills my FR tho hehehe. I need a better video card, this TNT2 32megs is a little wimpy. Who woulda thought that ah hehehe.
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all i see is the philipines ??
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too late fish, swapped to phillipines for TOD (that you misse).
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ooops sorry fatty my uh....mom was in the hospital and my computer was errr....also in the hospital...and uh - oh look at the time!
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Not to worry, mrfish, after this weekend's events, we'll put the Stalingrad terrain back in the SEA until HTC adds it to the downloads page.
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It's on the download page now. Unbelieveably beautiful, 10Bears. I had to put a sweater on while crusing around with the CM-eye. I can't wait for the Stalingrad scenario! By the way found out about the A-1 "H" spawn point the hard way :). Take a low wingloaded a/c if you expect to pull out in time. Zeke handled the vertical launch nicely, but I left paint on the snow when I tried it in a spit IX. And the 262's engines hadn't even finished spooling up when I plowed into the frozen tundra in a 90-degree free-fall.
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i played it offline and it was very nice. good work. my wife even came over to the computer and asked about it. i let her shoot down a few russians that were flying in circles over the volga for some reason :)