Friday update and discussions 2011-03-04

[slick118]

Originally Posted by IbnSolmyr

But did you fly over it in '40s ?? I guess Biggin Hill received a lot of bombs, huh ? So couldn't have it been builded in a brand new urbanisation plan after the war until today ? I read somewhere that the terrain modelled was the real 40' terrain.. And it's a great thing !

'Fraid not. You'll find that almost all towns and villages in the southeast have hardly changed since the 1940s, the 1840s, the 1740s, in fact most predate even this when you examine the architecture and buildings in these rural areas.

Since the war some have suffered the effects of the town planning and sprawl in an attempt to house a growing population, whereby more modern houses, usually without much sympathetic consideration, have been tacked on to the edge of their old medieval counterparts.

Unfortunately this is more akin to what you see of the towns and villages in this game.