It'd be interesting. The best map would probably be focused on an area where the most action was predicted to occur. I'd support it.
However, this would be way, waaaaaaaaayyyyy off into the future. The "specials" will probably be the last to go out overall, or this would just be in the last of the Pacific releases. We're nowhere near even done with Normandy.
I understand it'd be off. And it would probably be a lot of action. To me, it'd be like the Pacific Normandy. Plus, you get historic and stand-out Japanese cities like Tokyo to play around in/with.
And I thought the predicted Allied casualties would at least break a million just for starters. Total might've pushed 4 big ones.
No, those were initial estimates that were waaaaaay over the radar. The final estimates range from tens of thousands to hundreds of thousands (I would -in the hundred thousand range- say 100,000 to 200,000 min; 450,000 max or so). The initial invasion of Kyushu, for example, was finally estimated to cost 31,000 soldiers in the first 30 days (compared to Normandy's 42,000 in the first 30 days). That's a heck of a drop from a million soldiers predicted dead on the initial invasion.
Hmm.. devs making it Op Downfall? No.
Community Making Op.Downfall.. yes.
Its all good. I'd prefer it be an official part, but I'm not holding a gun to anyone's head.
Its an interesting operation.. but you are waaay into the future.. we dont even have Normandy and you want Op.Downfall?
Only when FH2 gets to the Pacific or when everything is done. I know it'll be a while if at all, but I just wanted to discuss it.
I'd personally like to see a few (at least one for every theater) "what if" battles implemented in the official releases of FH2. We had Desert Rose and Alpenfestung in FH1, so I think we should get a "What if the African Campaign lasted a bit longer?" map, a "What if the Western Euro Campaign lasted a bit longer?" map, a "What if the Eastern Euro Campaign lasted a bit longer?" map, and a "What if the Pacific Campaign lasted a bit longer?" Maybe even a "What if the Early Euro Campaign lasted a bit longer?" map (likely Operation Sealion coming to fruition). I know all of these are far off into the future, if they will ever be realized at all.
It's fun to dream. (No, Lightning, stay away from me, you dreamcrushing bastard!)
I'd definitly make a sealion map once all the prerequisits are done. Not one of the actual landing, but one where the Germans try to cross the east/west fortified canal where I live. Terrains there for me to look at, bunkers are still there. Just need hump bridges, Pz38t and early west front skins.
Sealion may be unrealistic.
http://wiki.alternatehistory.com/doku.php/pods/sealionI'm a fan of alternate history myself. And there's a lot of possibilities (God knows how many US cities you could do that would offer an orgy of eye candy to a player), but to be a Devil's advocate, some of them may be too complex or too average to make anyone really notice (IE, a battle in a Forrest on the way to the Nazi conquest of Moscow doesn't stand out against a forrest in real history).
'What if' battles are nice, but they should always come second to real battles. Since there is a practical infinite amount of real battles, the chance of seeing fictional battles in FH2 is practically 0. (Unless policy changes, but I find that unlikely.)
I understand the secondary-ness, believe me. And I understand there are other battles. However, maps like this/these (talking about Downfall based maps, not the likewise mentioned Sealion, which you should not mention to alternate history fans because they will shoot it to pieces for how unrealistic and poorly planned it was.*) would be far more interesting than many real life battles you may not cover or only begrudgingly cover.
Plus, if you wanted to you could throw in some "secret weapons" of the Pacific war, the realism of Japan actually managing to produce any of those or produce any large numbers of them (notably, their ME262-based jets) be damned. And if you wanted to get really out there -which I have doubts you would-, you could even put Ku-Go batteries on the coast. The Ku-Go, by the way, was basically a microwave based "Death ray" to fry incoming US troops.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Secret_and_special_weapons_in_Showa_Japanhttp://darksondesigns.proboards.com/index.cgi?board=weapons&action=display&thread=302*Go to Alternatehistory.com and bring it up or click the few links on it above to test that.