Adding new maps: Which one would be the most useful?

[IceFire]

Originally Posted by KG26_Alpha

Again .... the Channel Map with decent textures.

It's blatantly missing from IL2 1946.

Originally Posted by sniperton

Yep, the Channel was the first that came to my mind....
A relatively small area (could be made in 1:1), particularly well researched and documented, with endless air kills from the very beginnings.

Originally Posted by Aviar

I thought that a Channel map was 'forbidden'...or would it be allowed now due to the demise of COD?

Aviar

I'd be interested in a channel map. That would be very useful potentially.

There are three questions:

1) There's already a channel map made by some modders. Would they be interested in making it official? What roadblocks are there to it being given that status? Does anyone know them?

2) Is an "official" channel map verboten or are we allowed to do it?

3) What size/area would such a map be. Again, aiming for maximal usefulness. How deep would it go into either country?

Just looking at it now we could probably have a number of uses from the "tip and run" raids to the Dunkirk invasion. Perhaps the Channel Dash scenario. Perhaps an additional aircraft variant like the RAF Mustang Mark I (first in action over Dunkirk). Ambitious but an option.

I've also investigated (in addition to Leyte) doing a China map but I don't know the geography versus battle spaces as well and in doing a summary of the information I'm finding that its hard to find a good tactical space to recreate. Bases are massively far apart. It'd also need significant help in terms of creating houses and other doodads and that would also assume that we'll hopefully have a Ki-44 Shoki and Ki-48 Lily in the nearish future.

I'm also curious how receptive some additional small scale dogfight maps would be. Not necessarily historical but thematic (i.e. West Front dogfight, China dogfight, etc.) and designed for online battles.