Na, you just don't know what a trauma hailar was. Just imagine somebody trusts an Arisaka in your hand and hustles you in some direction. And then you say suddenly hello to a T-34/85. While the landscape looks like this, just without grass, but with atomic green ground texture:



In some sense that was almost authentic though. When you fought here, you were looking forward to the desert.

The Fall of Rome.

I still think it would be Op Cottage, if only for the fact that a tk fest would be the only historically accurate form of the map.

Outcome    Allies secure Kiska unopposed
Casualties    122 military personnel killed,
1 destroyer damaged

Ouch!

There were 2 versions of crete for FH1. An early and a late version. I think the late version was a complete new setup based on the layout of the old one. The early version had 6 flags, ugly terrain and excessive tank combat. There were matilda Mk1 and Daimler Mk1 among other tanks. Basically there were flat wide roads like ravines bordered by the hills. The layout reminded me a bit of adak island for FH1. However it didn't play very well and the new map version came with 5 flags. The british rearguard was removed from the hills in the south and moved north to the position where nowadays the monastery is. So with 6 flags again, crete is based somehow on both of the old crete versions. Though I must say that I prefer more strict maps with uneven numbers of flags, causing one of both factions to bleed more rapidly.

I must say that the Beaufighter already gives me headaches. Everything bigger would too big for the engine at current mapsize. Not to speak of 16- or 32-player maps. I'd like to see big bombers, especially on large oversized naval maps, but that is far away currently.

Medium bombers were used for tactical raids, yes, but when it comes to dropping carpets I got a problem with that. 2 small planes could do the same job, but would fit much better to the mapsize.

You really play these? What platform?

I just posted about this in another thread, but I'd like to see mobile spawns. Most people would agree that halftracks of all sorts are deathtraps you rather avoid. But I think in the war they gave factual security besides mobility.

But as these vehicles blow up immediately when shot, it wouldn't make a big difference when adding a spawn, would it? I think it would be worth to experiment with such elements. You aint got anything to lose, do you? If the map is designed from scratch for such a purpose, it does not necessarily mean a contortion.

I think the effect when opposing such vehicles would be great. You shoot an incoming vehicle and the result would be that it backs out again while dropping people. It would disappear behind some cover but the enemy could lauch an ongoing attack from that position. You would probably call for a barrage, destroying the vehicle and temporarily silence that frontline section. I'd call that very realistic.

I want the DRM removed.
When using a unique key this is nonsense anyway.
And server fixes and Vista support are welcome.
Problem is: The patch might be able to mess up FH, bringing the need for an hotfix.