Originally Posted by HBPencil (Post 714319)

Out of curiosity, will the August '44 map include advanced landing grounds in England? And will there be V1 launch sites?

Cheers,

HB

Originally Posted by _1SMV_Gitano (Post 714331)

Yep, the (ambitious) plan is to include the 26 ALGs in England and around 50 ALGs built in Normandy. Consider that ALGs in the UK were progressively abandoned and dismantled so the August '44 map will have active ALGs in Normandy and inactive, or removed ALGs in the UK.

I'm not sure about the V1 sites at the moment.

Originally Posted by _1SMV_Gitano (Post 714331)

I'm not sure about the V1 sites at the moment.

Originally Posted by Verdun1916 (Post 714040)

WHAT???? Seriously? In what world "wouldn't" a channel map like this "bring anyhing new to the game"? :-(

IT BRINGS THE ENGLISH CHANNEL AREA!!!! Both sides of it! Not just Normany without a proper British coastline. That is good enough for most of us! It brings the opportunity for all of us who DO NOT run modded versions of IL-2 to play and recreate arial combat ranging from 1940 until 1944 over an area that has not yet been represented properly in this game!

It brings a map that most of us have been wishing for for years and years! Basically since the first version of IL-2 came out!

So how could you even dare use words like "wasting an opportunity" or "wouldn't bring anything new" when we finally will get a geographical area represented that has been lacking for so long???? :evil:

An English Channel map IS a GREAT addition to the stock game!!It will be loved and appreciated by the majority of the IL-2 Community all over the world, both players using mods and especially all of us who don't run mods!

I really can't thank TD enough for finally bringing a map like this to the stock game!!!

Originally Posted by majorfailure (Post 714047)

I don't get it. We will get a new and important map for free and all this complaining about how that's a bad thing?

This map covers a land area that saw nearly constant action from 40 to 45, and that alone makes it needed.
It can be used for early war, German offense vs. Allied defense, potentially with a fictional invasion. That's a lot of fighter/attack/bomber mission options there.

Second option is to employ it for any kind of smaller skirmishes - in between the big battles, perfect for Il-2, and it does give the option for German harassment missions on RAF installations for the first time (There are your "new" missions). Allied can do the same, and not having to play on the limited Normandy map is an advantage.

Third, of course, is Invasion of Normandy, and now we have the opportunity to go hunting further off the invasion area, destroy supplies/infrastructure. German options also change, now a big area is to be patroled, and not just a few square kilometers of invasion area.

Okay, it is not the perfect map for strategic bombing/ship hunting or whatever, but it still is a great, important map, and it is big enough to allow strategic bomber operations on a limited scale(and after all IL2 is a tactical game!), and it does have water so anti shipping is possible.

So as far as I'm concerned, I'm excited to play on this map.

Originally Posted by _1SMV_Gitano (Post 714331)

Yep, the (ambitious) plan is to include the 26 ALGs in England and around 50 ALGs built in Normandy. Consider that ALGs in the UK were progressively abandoned and dismantled so the August '44 map will have active ALGs in Normandy and inactive, or removed ALGs in the UK.

I'm not sure about the V1 sites at the moment.