Airplanes in Normandy

[AfterDune]

If you want to see these planes featured in Project Normandy... make a map for them .

[SShadowFox]

Very cool, can't wait to play with those planes, get ready for the dogfights and the diving bombardment.

[=Romagnolo=]

Not only the model, the texture and the animation, the sounds are really good! Nice work! This mini-mod is going far!

[AfterDune]

You got Clivewil to thank for that . I only tweaked some minor things.

[rodrigoma]

this is great news, I only wish I new about this so I could have already been making a map

[AfterDune]

Yeah.. I only found out about the free birds yesterday .

[CanuckCommander]

Map Idea: Battle of Midway

Description: Ask R-Dev Rhino to make Midway version of PR:Falklands. Lots of carriers. Lot's of ships. Lots of planes.

Result: Epic. Rename PN to Project WWII.

[rodrigoma]

Map Idea: Battle of Midway

Description: Ask R-Dev Rhino to make Midway version of PR:Falklands. Lots of carriers. Lot's of ships. Lots of planes.

Result: Epic. Rename PN to Project WWII.

you forgot that we would need a new faction

[CommunistComma]

Natzees is Natzees.
But yeah, a carrier battle wouldn't be historically accurate, or even conceivable.

It isn't Germany that rules the waves.

[aTapKid]

Maybe a Battle of Britain map? But you would need to make new plane models soo i dont know how reasonable that would be. ..

From what i know most air cpnflicts in germany involving the US were mainly bomber escort/ ground support, not to much of the major scale air to air combat like you see in the pacific.
but i could be wrong

[AfterDune]

I'm sticking to Normandy myself only. I have this "campaign" in my head that I want to complete. Will post something about that later.

If any of you guys want to have a go at it, go ahead.

[rodrigoma]

well afterdune now we needed a urban combat map like st lo too finish with operation cobra and the normandy fighting
too bad theres no p47 i would make a runway on the middle of my map too have it

[AfterDune]

We don't have a P-47, so use the P-51 instead? Would need a reskin and perhaps different weapon layout, but that's not a problem.

[Kloppies]

I have a suggestion for a map, but I have almost no mapping experience, so I won't be able to make it.

I was thinking that a good battle to base a map on with airplanes and tanks that would be reasonable to make, is the german counter-attack on Mortain during August 1944 (Operation Luttich).

The small town with the surrounding hills will fit neatly on a 4km map with enough space on the northern and southern edges to make an airfield for each side: Google Maps.

[AfterDune]

Funny thing. I was actually thinking about a map around Avranches (west of Mortain) which could tie the campaign more together.

The campaign is like this:

- Paradrops on the Operation Overlord map
- Beach-assault on the Operation Overlord map
- Assault on Brecourt Manor
- Bloody Gulch (near Carentan)
- Road to Saint-Lo
- ...
- La Varde (near Saint-Malo, perhaps juuuust outside Normandy)

Avranches and/or Mortain would be perfect to connect Saint-Lo to La Varde.

[rodrigoma]

mortain would be an interesting idea for a map , with the hills giving it a different feel, but making it 4 km would be near impossible, making hedges and the fields in a 2 km map was a piece of work i cant even imagine doing it in 4 km area

[AfterDune]

I got so tired of placing hedgerows on the Overlord map, and that's just half of the map .

4km is nice, but shouldn't make 4km because it's 4km. I think 2km is hard enough and with the limited amount of scopes and binocs, certainly is big enough. I hear people say "man, how big is this map!" on Overlord already .

[Pvt.LHeureux]

2km is fine with ww2 planes.

There is no AA rockets anyway.

[DavviZ]

I noticed that the BF-109 had cannons on the wings? During D-day/invasion of normandy the BF-109 that were in use had its guns on top of the engine and cannon in the propeller if I remember right?

[AfterDune]

This all we got, it's fine.