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[Groundfire]

Edit: Updated Build 1/2/11
http://www.filefront.com/17737975/6p_Hill_60.7z

-Thinned down the map, smoothed hills and other small adjustments.


Old Post:
Ok, this is my first map.

It's called Hill 60 and I got my inspiration from this aerial recon photo. It was a host to a famous battle site in ww1, but with lack of interesting recon photos to do a map from, im just doing a map over this one.

The Hill is somewhere in Belgium so we can use it for that area of the warmap.

Here's the aerial photo I found, as well as the map overview of what I got atm:




In Game screenies:

[brn4meplz]

Hill 60 is located in the South East portion of the Ypres Salient(named after the town Ypres[now Ieper])

Hill 60 was a dominating high ground feature created by the railway cutout (being 60 meters above sea level-hence the name) and changed hands several times during the First World war.

one of the most prominent actions was underground mines being set off as a precursor to a British attack on April 10th, 1915. During a German counterattack on the night fo 20-21 April 1915, 4 Victoria Crosses were won.

Hill 60 was also the site of heavy artillery and mortar bombardment in 1940.


(I assumed you didn;t mean the Hill 60 in the Gallipoli landings)

When it comes to War history I know my shit. When it comes to First World War I really know my shit(I gotta remember when Canada was the best fighting force in the world)

[salan]

Heh, at least we are all taking our 'progress the mod' initiatives and being creative!

Maps are interesting, lots of wierd techniques that are hard to remember how to do thou ;(

(I gotta remember when Canada was the best fighting force in the world)

wasn't that in 1812 when we burned down some upstarts capital building?

[Groundfire]

Yeah, i found out it was a ww1 site half way thorugh mapping and from the description I got, it was somewhere on the German/Belgium boarder.

Doesnt rly matter, I can name it to something else if it's too much a problem.

[brn4meplz]

Canada's First World War performance was far better. Not only was it on an international stage but the accomplishments were far greater. We got sent all up and down the Western front and the Germans didn't want to face us.

It takes serious balls to actually counter attack in the face of poison gas attacks without gas masks while both flanks collapse into retreat.


Not a problem just wanted to fill you in on the background.

Alternative world war 2 locations of interest are at Hill 262 which was an essential area contested by the Polish in the Battale of Falaise.

and Hill 213 which was important in the Battle for Villers Bocage and the location of Michael Wittmans other 4 Tigers.

[Groundfire]

Anyone got objective criticism so far?

maybe i should do alittle more. All of that is from 4 hours of work.

I would also encourage everyone to try their hand at mapping if they can so we got some cool new maps to play on for when the warmap comes in.

[brn4meplz]

The buildings still seem forced. they just sit on top of grass or other stuff. Thats fine for like village buildings but anything made of brock or stone is going to have a rock foundation at the minimum.

Chances are also good that the houses will have weeds or bushes growing around them. It's also a safe bet that some will either have short walls or fences or even garden hedges/bushes

[Katusha]

The buildings still seem forced. they just sit on top of grass or other stuff. Thats fine for like village buildings but anything made of brock or stone is going to have a rock foundation at the minimum.

Chances are also good that the houses will have weeds or bushes growing around them. It's also a safe bet that some will either have short walls or fences or even garden hedges/bushes

thats exactly what i was going to say, the map is really good, but the buildings seem.. naked

[Groundfire]

well it only has 4 hours into it. Most of which was put towards the hill, which by the way, after looking at photos from the site, im going to encorporate a bunch of dug in bunkers instead of rickety shack bunkers and trenches.

[Demon767]

ohh pshh canada wasnt any different than any other country. Its just the battle situations were in their favour in the campaigns. shutup and get out.

[brn4meplz]

If you think that favourable situations just fall into your lap you've got a learning disability thats more disabling then I thought.

[Groundfire]

you guys have way to many nationalism e-peen waving contests.

[salan]

Most of us die hard canadian's simply want our countries regularly overlooked contributions to be noted.  Some of them were amazing, some weren't... lets go do our own D-DAY!

The ones Brn is quoting were in fact amazing for what they were able to achieve.

[brn4meplz]

I promote spectacular feats of martial prowess for any nation. If something was quite the accomplishment I'll celebrate that. When it comes to the First World War most of those achievements were Canadian.

Does that mean that the first terror bombing in history was done by Germans on a Paris train station doesn't count? No, but the vast majority of people don't know it happened let alone the date.

[Groundfire]

Just pokin fun at ya buddy. 

[Malgoroth]

Most of us die hard canadian's simply want our countries regularly overlooked contributions to be noted.  Some of them were amazing, some weren't... lets go do our own D-DAY!

Didn't you guys try that... at Dieppe?

Wasn't it a miserable, embarrassing failure?

 

[salan]

Didn't you guys try that... at Dieppe?

Wasn't it a miserable, embarrassing failure?

 

I know.. That's why I said that, not all canadian achievements were great... good... even half good

[brn4meplz]

Unfortunately I hold the failure of Dieppe with Lord Louis Mountbatten. Who after abandoning Operation Rutter(fear that it was discovered by the Germans) relaunched the operation as Jubilee. The naval task force even ran into a German ships and still proceeded with the raid.

The RAF got mauled in it.

The only real success was No.4 Commando, which actually destroyed their targets.

It forced alot of painfull lessons for Overlord and Torch though, the primary 3 being:
Don't assault a Port
Don't use tanks on shingle
Precede the landings by a bombardment.

[NightRain]

Finland gave a good kick on Mother Russia's balls, compared to that most achivements were only medicore

The map itself is good, I'd like to see King of the Hill Scenarios in CoH, there was one Campaign map for the British that had one interesting hill to Conquer, Hill 301? I can't remember it, Maybe it should be one of the map in the campaign as well?

[tank130]

I believe a Canadian was responsible for the new launcher being implemented sooner as well as a the war map being implemented sooner.

Just sayin'