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Offline flakbait

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Simple terrain enhancement
« on: December 12, 2000, 04:37:00 AM »
Had this little lightning strike while reading about the Bataan Air Force. Taking off from a field with trees all around does create a challenge, but how to simulate it? Easy, make your entire terrain 35ft ABOVE sea level. Then "sink" the field to create a simulated tree line. With vehicles this does pose a problem, since they can't go up a vertical slope. Instead of giving every fraggin field a seperate V-base, place one closer to the field and within the sunken area. This would restrict them to defensive ops only, and give you dedicated local air defense.

Maybe create a "ramp" of sorts on one end by gradually sloping the terrain up. This would let you do vehicle ops, but only locally.

This is just a general theory, so tell me what you think.

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Offline jihad

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Simple terrain enhancement
« Reply #1 on: December 12, 2000, 04:54:00 AM »
 Good ideas,I`ve been playing with elevations to restrict Ostwind assaults in my Philippines terrain,but hadn`t thought abouts sinking the runways in.  

Offline Sundog

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Simple terrain enhancement
« Reply #2 on: December 12, 2000, 10:49:00 AM »
The first terrain I created had this feature (I gave up on it due to base placement problems, which I have since figured out) If you would like I can e-mail it to you to check out. I made a very small `forward' airfield which is in among the trees which makes take offs and landings tricky.

The map I am going to release this week has the latest version of that forward airfield on it.

SD