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[GilB57]

With Asheshouse agreement, I finally decided to do rework on his BoF map but also with seasonal variants for different moments of the war.

Here are all the airfields that I'll try to include:

(sorry for the big picture !!!)

Main maps I plan to release :
1- Ardennes battle 1944 (possible scenario for Bodenplatte)
2- Blitzkrieg 1940

Some airbases will be on 1940 map, other will be on the 1944 one.

Complete list of airfields :

UK: (7 airfields)
Boxted
Bradwell Bay
Eastchurch
Felixstowe (airsea rescue - hydravions)
Hawkinge
Lympne
Manston

FR: (20 airfields)
Abbeville
Amiens Glisy
Arras
Attigny*
Calais Marck
Cambrai Niergnies
Clastres
Etaples Le Touquet
Fresnoy Folny ALG
Laon Athies
La Malmaison
Le Quesnoy Vertain
Lille Seclin
Merville
Montdidier
Norrent Fontes
Senon *
Tournes-Belval
Villers-lès-Guise
Vitry en Artois

BE:(16 airfields)
Anvers Deurne
Asch ALG
Beauvechain (Le Culot)
Bruxelles Evere
Chièvres
Courtrai Welvegen
Diest Schaffen
Gand StDenis Westrem
Liège Bierset
Melsbroek
Nivelles
Ophoven ALG
St Trond
St Hubert
Tirlemont Gossoncourt (Goetsenhoven)
Ursel

NL: (7 airfields)
Bergen Op Zoom (Woensdrecht)
Eindhoven
Gilze Rijen
Heesch ALG
Rotterdam Waalhaven
Vlissingen
Volkel

All: (10 airfields)
Aachen Merzbruck
Bonninghardt
Gosh Asperde
Krefeld
MonchenGladbach Holt
SandWeiler (Luxembourg)
Trier Euren*
Venlo
Vogelsang
Wesel west

* : those ones are less than 10 kms out of the map, and they will appear on the border.

I'll use this post to let you know about work progress (currently: search for airfields plans or aerial photos)

[OberstDanjeje]

Great news, thanks

[NNFFLYLB]

Très bonne nouvelle!

[cgagan]

Allez-y! Looking forward! 

[ggrewe]

WOW Gilb57 - this is really great news, thanks for taking this on, and freeing up Asheshouse to complete all the great goodies he is working on -especially the new tanks & ships 
This map covers a vital part of action on both ends of the war & will certainly supply much milage.
Your rework of Maraz's Central Med map was a masterpiece & still one of my favorate maps, the city detail in Valetta on Malta was breathtaking. So really looking forward to your work on this map - although city details on this ambitious project might have to be toned down to save your sanity & frame rate! 

[MR_G]

Is this going to be a "Heavy" map, or will it be populated like a "Stock" map??

The BoF map is one of the favorites, along with the Circus map.

[GilB57]

although city details on this ambitious project might have to be toned down to save your sanity & frame rate!

You're right ! For this map, the work won't be the same than Central Med's one because of the density.
The rule I'll try to follow:
everything that can be done by mission makers (standard FMB) will be left. That way, everyone can populate only the necessary part of this map. Towns will be populated but maybe more sparsely (CanonUK buildings). Airfields will have full runways, parkings & taxiways but only a few buildings.

[asheshouse]

I'm glad to see some new enthusiasm being injected into the BoF map.
Good luck with your project.

My work stalled when I started on the Rotterdam area. Probably the largest built up area, but similar to Lille in scale. I found that my AutoPop work was too dense for Rotterdam and would guess that the building density needs to be roughly half in these large city areas.

There is advantage in keeping high density in villages. These add a lot to the visual interest but do not have much affect on FPS.

Ashe

[cgagan]

Try the French site C6 or the following link,
http://www.france-simulation.com/download.php?dcategory=CAMPAGNE%2FMISSIONS+BELLY&sortby=
I recall they have some May 1940 and Sedan campaigns

[Flanker35M]

S!

 Looks great New areas to fight over!!

[GilB57]

EARLY texture tests (Ardennes winter 44-45) :

My work stalled when I started on the Rotterdam area. Probably the largest built up area, but similar to Lille in scale

It's the reason why I'll use Canon-UK's buildings : they allow big density without FPS dramatic dropdown. Only a few big cities are in your BoF map and they are a lot smaller than London or Paris

I still need to know how to use Autopop 

[Riptide_One]

GilB57,

Looking good. Stick with it.

Cheers,

Riptide