Larger maps

[Soldier_Fortune]

Originally Posted by Monguse

SF, actually that's one reason the New Guinea New Britain map is in 413. B24's operated from the Northern Territory (Australia), Dobodura as well as later from Nazdab. If you really want to try out a long mission, take off from Dobodura with B24D to bomb Wewak or Rabaul then land back home.

Hi Monguse:

Of course, I've played some long range missions (made by myself) to enjoy the B-24, flying that map.

But IMHO New Guinea - New Britain is amazing for air-naval engagements, envolving a lot of warships, land and/or carrier based airctafts, and flying boats.

For strategic bombing, NG-NB map has too few and too small targets. Rabaul, i.e., only has a bunch of houses and an airfield: good targets for B-25s or A-20s if they had sufficient range.

Really I miss a map like La Chute by two main reasons:

- Fun: This map may be used almost endlessly. It has many big cities (London, Amsterdam, Rotterdam, Anthwerpen, Koln, Dresden, Hamburg, Berlin, etc), and a lot of small cities and towns which had factories historically targeted by Allied bombers; and also it has strategic targets like Peenemünde.

- Epic and realism: of course, all military veterans deserve the greatest respect. But, IMHO, the strategic bombing campaign in the Pacific lacks the epic of similar campaigns in the ETW. USA counts 407,000 military KIA only in Europe, and UK counts 403,000; over 100,000 of them were Allied bomber crewmen, and 12,000 bombers were shot down. Certain statistics are very impresive: the Tour of Duty for all the heavy bombers along the war (30 missions) did produce 71% of KIA/MIA; for medium bombers (50 missions) did produce 48% of KIA/MIA.
A map like La Chute can give us a more accurate idea about the difficulties, risks and dangers those guys faced to reach their targets and come back in one piece.

But only it's my opinion and my taste.