I'm sure this has been discussed somewhere, but does the contract limitation include the Bay of Biscay--with a bit of England or Ireland? Maybe the type of "duels" there garnered no interest?

It is quite clear for me that the "historic" map of the Channel (Dover-Calais area) will not be added to the Il-2.
However, I really do see one workaround.


Is it possible to expand the "Atlantida" island on the Normandy2 map, making it 3-4x bigger, with another 1-2 airfields, and maybe a seaport on it?

In my previous message I have attached a sketch of such map. I would be even more happy to see the map a bit expanded northward, with even bigger "Atlantida" islet.
Of course, a more radical approach would be to make this island VERY big, to have the fully-blown coast there, maybe even we can have a Southampton, Portland, and Isle of Wight lookalikes, and the Needles put on it. The map will be not more (or less) "historic" than the Italy map. The british coastline will be almost twice as near than in real life, plus shifted and compressed - but still recognizable.

What we'll get this way is not strictly speaking the BoB theatre, rather the D-Day theatre, which is already present in the game anyway.
And this will allow for the building of the proper D-Day missions/V-1 intercept missions, since few of the were fired at Southampton, AFAIK



The island expansion sketch is attached here:
http://forum.1cpublishing.eu/showpos...&postcount=370

The DDay map is attached as a bitmap.


I hope this workaround might be acceptable for all the parties.

That 'Normandy with coast of Britain' mod youre suggesting was made by fly_zo back in 2008.
It can be used even in dgen campaigns because it has the same parameters as the original map.

http://img717.imageshack.us/img717/1540/flyzobob.jpg

I think this map is preferable.

Or even the Cannon UK smaller one.

The other one above is too unrealistic unless you want to do Circus or Rhubarb missions.

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v1...1/grab0000.jpg

Well, this map makes the Channel look way too narrow. There was no need to make the imitation of "London" which eats too much space and is anyway too unrealistic.

As for the other map - it looks fine, but AFAIK no BoB-related content may be officially introduced into Il2 - thus it won't go :(

Yes I know :) but 1C team are finished with CoD when BoM is released so its an opportunity to get BoB into IL2 1946, Even as a paid for addon !!!



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What's the scale of that channel map? I never did figure it out. It's great, but I vastly prefer 1:1 scale maps.

1:1

+1 for the 352nd map and for 1:1 maps generally as they make you watch the fuel gauge and fly more by the book. It's also possible to be in the middle of the channel on that map and see nothing but sea, which very disorientating. Maybe if someone asked Luthier, he may consider it, as Clod is moving on.

The 352nd map is unpopulated except airfields, probably due to its size.

Current option for BoB map* & dgen campaigns:
http://www.mission4today.com/index.p...details&id=221
(will work with any type of modact but requires BoE)

*fly_zo's Normady with coast of Britain, using textures by Compans