[Abandoned] - Battle of Britain

by **samuelc812** on Fri Jan 22, 2010 11:06 pm

Battle of Britain

Mapmaker: samuelc812
Territories: 69
Continents: N/A

Version 1

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~Sam

by **Incandenza** on Fri Jan 22, 2010 11:10 pm

Hell of a cool concept, but a quick question: did the Luftwaffe actually make it far enough to bomb targets in Scotland and N Ireland? 'Cause otherwise I think you could zoom in closer on central and southern England and northern France.

by **samuelc812** on Fri Jan 22, 2010 11:12 pm

Incandenza wrote:Hell of a cool concept, but a quick question: did the Luftwaffe actually make it far enough to bomb targets in Scotland and N Ireland? 'Cause otherwise I think you could zoom in closer on central and southern England and northern France.

Yep they did, There were a hell of a lot more planes that came from Norway, and they attacked the North including Scotland/North Ireland. However i ran out of room and i'm afraid more planes would make it look more cluttered.

~Sam

by **grifftron** on Fri Jan 22, 2010 11:17 pm

I love it. It is a little cluttered with all the planes tho. My mind goes crazy when playing maps like this, hard for me to keep what goes where but maybe just me, if i played it a few times i would be ok. Great idea.

-griff

by **Industrial Helix** on Fri Jan 22, 2010 11:40 pm

Wow. This looks so cool.

I got some gameplay crits for you though.

I think you should take the assaults out and make this a strict air war. The object should be to bomb your enemy into submission, as was the German strategy (Sea Lion was completely unfeasible). And became the British war plan, bomb the hell out of the Germans, later in the war. I think this aspect of gameplay could be worked out.

Planes should be reverting neutral ones. It re-enacts the need to get planes in the air and attacking. They just didn't sit out up in the air and wait! There should be some effort to get planes into the fight.

A battle of Britain isn't the Battle of Britain without RADAR!

But really, great start. I look forward to this map already!

by **AndyDufresne** on Sat Jan 23, 2010 1:14 pm

I like the idea, and the graphics. It is probably a style of map I'd never play, but I think it could fit nicely into Conquer Club's array of maps...

--Andy

by **natty dread** on Sat Jan 23, 2010 1:25 pm

Hmm... did you copypaste the barbwire straight from your poland map?

The map looks great graphics-wise though. Only thing I don't like is the red colour for the legend background. It worked for the Poland map but Poland had very different colour scheme. Here, I'd go for something like grey or blue, but that's just my opinion.

As for the gameplay... all airforces can attack all planes (of same nationality)? I'm not sure how I feel about that... It's going to be hard to hold those planes when anyone can just attack them. I think I'd like it more if there were set connections from regular territories to planes.

by **00iCon** on Sat Jan 23, 2010 10:14 pm

Excellent map idea! I can see you really like the ww2 theme.
I'd like to see this done as close as possible to the historical facts. or as open as possible to the player to make his own strategy.
Maybe add a few V1's as a bombardment?

by **Evil DIMwit** on Tue Jan 26, 2010 9:53 pm

(9:50:49 PM) Sam: hey Evil, if you have a moment, can you move this thread --> viewtopic.php?f=63&t=107413 over to the Recycling Bin please
(9:51:26 PM) Evil DIMwit: Really?
(9:52:05 PM) Sam: yes please i will be continuing with it, but in the future. I don't have the time to commit to it right now. I wanted to gage community interest.
(9:52:15 PM) Evil DIMwit: No problem.
(9:52:19 PM) Sam: thanks mate

by **the.killing.44** on Tue Jan 26, 2010 9:54 pm

Evil DIMwit wrote:(9:50:49 PM) Sam: hey Evil, if you have a moment, can you move this thread --> viewtopic.php?f=63&t=107413 over to the Recycling Bin please
(9:51:26 PM) Evil DIMwit: Really?
(9:52:05 PM) Sam: yes please i will be continuing with it, but in the future. I don't have the time to commit to it right now. I wanted to gage community interest.
(9:52:15 PM) Evil DIMwit: No problem.
(9:52:19 PM) Sam: thanks mate

by **Industrial Helix** on Tue Jan 26, 2010 10:03 pm

Bummer. I was looking forward to this.

by **samuelc812** on Tue Jan 26, 2010 11:17 pm

i will most definently pick it up again, just not right now

~Sam

by **samuelc812** on Tue Jun 22, 2010 2:20 am

I'm taking this out of the bin for the holidays, i've got time to work on it

~Sam

by **iancanton** on Tue Jun 22, 2010 2:41 am

as requested, [moved] back to the melting pot.

ian.

by **TheSaxlad** on Tue Jun 22, 2010 2:43 am

Industrial Helix wrote:A battle of Britain isn't the Battle of Britain without RADAR!!

Is there a way to write into the xml a way to see round fog? Cause this map would be amazing just played on fog with radar stations to capture which would lift the fog?

by **natty dread** on Tue Jun 22, 2010 5:35 am

Glad to see this back!

by **theBastard** on Tue Jun 22, 2010 9:35 am

TheSaxlad wrote:
Industrial Helix wrote:A battle of Britain isn't the Battle of Britain without RADAR!!

Is there a way to write into the xml a way to see round fog? Cause this map would be amazing just played on fog with radar stations to capture which would lift the fog?

interesting idea/notice

by **natty dread** on Tue Jun 22, 2010 9:41 am

theBastard wrote:
TheSaxlad wrote:
Industrial Helix wrote:A battle of Britain isn't the Battle of Britain without RADAR!!

Is there a way to write into the xml a way to see round fog? Cause this map would be amazing just played on fog with radar stations to capture which would lift the fog?

interesting idea/notice

Unfortunately impossible currently.

by **Anders2004** on Mon Jul 12, 2010 9:29 pm

Looks like a great idea, should be a fun one when it gets done.

by **uptothemax** on Tue Jul 13, 2010 1:48 pm

A very good idea indeed.
A small remark though.

There has been a raid at Belfast at April, 15th 1941 according to: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Belfast_Blitz.
The battle of Britain was over at that time.

Please bear in mind that the Germans did not have any long range bombers. Their bombers were ment to support the 'Blitzkrieg' concept.

uptothemax

by **Arama86n** on Tue Jul 13, 2010 2:08 pm

I'll just echo some of the others and say cool idea :!:

, but alas a little "cluttered" feeling. perhaps planes can be made smaller? map bigger? if, as suggested the air becomes main stag eof battle maybe the planes can stand out more, where as land has a lighter colour scheme, more as a backdrop? i dunno, jsut throwing brainfarts out there, haha

You dhould definatly ocntinue with this one