Where are the new maps?

[Baddington_VA]

If it came to the wishlist, I would say Kuban winter campaign map.


A China map should have a lot of potential for historical mission builders.

You've got Flying Tigers for one and the Nationalist forces were eventually flying B25s
and the industry moved just like in Russia, with Japanese bombers in pursuit.
Even after Japan surrendered the Russians just kept on moving in the north.
There's the Burma -China road.
I'm not absolutely sure, but B29s may have been based in China for a time.

Map building itself is still a mystery to me. I have looked it up, but never found out much at all.
That it could be accepted in the stock version, if it were 100% original, makes it even more interesting a subject.

[Plane-Eater]

Originally Posted by Baddington_VA

If it came to the wishlist, I would say Kuban winter campaign map.


A China map should have a lot of potential for historical mission builders.

You've got Flying Tigers for one and the Nationalist forces were eventually flying B25s
and the industry moved just like in Russia, with Japanese bombers in pursuit.
Even after Japan surrendered the Russians just kept on moving in the north.
There's the Burma -China road.
I'm not absolutely sure, but B29s may have been based in China for a time.

Map building itself is still a mystery to me. I have looked it up, but never found out much at all.
That it could be accepted in the stock version, if it were 100% original, makes it even more interesting a subject.

The China Air Task Force and the 14th AF were flying B-24s and I think later on B-29s against Japan. There was a LOT of guerrilla air combat in the CBI, it's been horribly neglected.

[Pursuivant]

Originally Posted by Baddington_VA

A China map should have a lot of potential for historical mission builders.

Just remember that there's a massive amount of China and that most of the bits that were fought over were densely populated. That means either small maps if you want to include every village or the need to selectively "depopulate" the map if you want to cover a larger area.

Additionally, many China missions covered long distances, and IL2 doesn't do "strategic" maps very well.

Originally Posted by Baddington_VA

You've got Flying Tigers for one and the Nationalist forces were eventually flying B25s

Lots of action with the CAMCO and later the Chinese-American Composite Wing and the 14th Air Force. Add to that RAF and Commonwealth (RCAF, RIAF, RAAF, RNZAF) actions during the Japanese invasion of British territories in 1941-42 (Hong Kong and Burma).

Originally Posted by Baddington_VA

Even after Japan surrendered the Russians just kept on moving in the north.

Actually, this wasn't a Soviet invasions so much as the continuance (or rather, the end game) of the Chinese Civil War which led to victory by the Communists under Mao Zedong. There was a certain amount of aerial action during the post-WW2 conflict which doesn't get a whole lot of attention in the West. Sadly, this conflict probably officially off-limits for a number of reasons.

Originally Posted by Baddington_VA

I'm not absolutely sure, but B29s may have been based in China for a time.

The 20th Air Force was briefly based in China and flew the first B-29 raids from Chinese bases. But, due to logistics they didn't fly too many raids from there before they transferred to the Marianas in 1945.[/QUOTE]