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Re: FH2 Historical Accuracy : Ingame VS Real life Pictures
« Reply #225 on: 18-02-2016, 11:02:05 »
The old desert maps are almost all very scaled, with largely exaggerated terrain features. Otherwise they would all look like Alam Halfa, but even more flat.

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Re: FH2 Historical Accuracy : Ingame VS Real life Pictures
« Reply #226 on: 18-02-2016, 14:02:37 »
The Kidney problem actually made me delve a bit deeper into this.

According to wikipedia, "...was Tel el Aqqaqir, the base of the Axis defence roughly 3 mi (4.8 km) northwest of the Kidney feature and situated on the Rahman lateral track." and "Kidney feature (also known to the Germans and Italians as Hill 28), often wrongly called a ridge".

So if, we look at this map and compare it with Google maps, we get this:


Since the Kidney ridge is apparently more of a hill rather than a ridge, finding it is pretty much impossible in Google satellite view, and I'm guessing the Egyptians don't have any publicly available topographic maps of the area.
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Re: FH2 Historical Accuracy : Ingame VS Real life Pictures
« Reply #227 on: 28-02-2016, 17:02:32 »













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Re: FH2 Historical Accuracy : Ingame VS Real life Pictures
« Reply #228 on: 29-02-2016, 02:02:17 »
Very nice!!! I had been wondering what the view from the heights was really like!
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Re: FH2 Historical Accuracy : Ingame VS Real life Pictures
« Reply #229 on: 29-02-2016, 02:02:43 »
Cool Seelow pics 8) I never knew how close the FH1 version was. There was talk about modeling the actual old train station that was located there. It wasn't very high priority afaik

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Re: FH2 Historical Accuracy : Ingame VS Real life Pictures
« Reply #230 on: 29-02-2016, 04:02:47 »
We couldn't locate the exact train station to base the modeling on.

Unfortunately, we ended up using a generic one. :)

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Re: FH2 Historical Accuracy : Ingame VS Real life Pictures
« Reply #231 on: 29-02-2016, 10:02:00 »
this looks so good i hope ever see some maps from holland like marget garden and some more

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« Reply #232 on: 29-02-2016, 12:02:25 »
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Very nice!
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Re: FH2 Historical Accuracy : Ingame VS Real life Pictures
« Reply #233 on: 29-02-2016, 14:02:39 »
whoa..kudos to devs

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Re: FH2 Historical Accuracy : Ingame VS Real life Pictures
« Reply #234 on: 01-03-2016, 00:03:10 »








Found some more pics  ;)

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Re: FH2 Historical Accuracy : Ingame VS Real life Pictures
« Reply #235 on: 27-03-2016, 22:03:48 »
Yes, the map is based on the actual area, but a bit scaled down (not that you would notice normally).

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Re: FH2 Historical Accuracy : Ingame VS Real life Pictures
« Reply #236 on: 03-05-2016, 22:05:56 »
By the way, who does the FH2 railways? I mean the stations, the trains and the other stuff. Like a train geek I can say they look pretty damn good. I would also like to see some carriages on Operation Totalize or other maps. Then my choo-choo journey across the map will be awesome. :D

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Re: FH2 Historical Accuracy : Ingame VS Real life Pictures
« Reply #237 on: 23-05-2016, 15:05:33 »
By the way, who does the FH2 railways? I mean the stations, the trains and the other stuff. Like a train geek I can say they look pretty damn good. I would also like to see some carriages on Operation Totalize or other maps. Then my choo-choo journey across the map will be awesome. :D

Plaese note, that FH2 is actually a WW2 themed church simulator. Trains are only there as a coincidence  ;D

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« Reply #238 on: 24-05-2016, 01:05:07 »

Plaese note, that FH2 is actually a WW2 themed church simulator. Trains are only there as a coincidence  ;D

Well, I might make this as a signature. :D

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Re: FH2 Historical Accuracy : Ingame VS Real life Pictures
« Reply #239 on: 01-10-2016, 09:10:20 »
Some thoughts and background on Ramelle (+ gameplay)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ObTdO4NHdyg