Normandy Map Discussion

Interesting film regarding Normandy. Restored to 60FPS it seems so lively as recorded yesterday.

Amazing, thanks a lot for sharing!

:book: I have been hooked on Bunyap's you tube videos of spit ops in Normandy leading up to and during D-day, and if the campaign is anything like them, it's going to be really going to be something special. I cant wait:joystick::thumbup::pilotfly:

Same here! Addictive stuff those videos :thumbup:

If the campaign is anything like that, we will have some good times ahead!

For a little background on Normandy, I found two very interesting videos.

The first is actually a recording, and requires a little patience:

It's a 1 hour 38 minutes speech and Q&A session, that describes why the defence was so much better at Omaha beach, and what made the fighting there so hard.

It is very interesting, and well worth the effort IMO:

The second one is a documentary about the tank battles in Normandy.

It is interesting, because it really gets into how the Sherman tanks fared against the German tanks (not well), but also about much of what happened on the ground on and after d-Day, including the fact that the German forces were eventually forced into defeat by the Allied's air power.

It's a good supplement to the speech above (and also Ala13_ManOWar's video), and have some very good interviews of participants from both sides.

Both videos include the air force part of the equation, and gives some interesting background on how it was used.

Did you guys see this?

Sounds great!

Did you guys see this?

 

Sounds great!

 

:thumbup:

Indeed it does!

For a little background on Normandy, I found two very interesting videos.

 

The first is actually a recording, and requires a little patience:

It's a 1 hour 38 minutes speech and Q&A session, that describes why the defence was so much better at Omaha beach, and what made the fighting there so hard.

It is very interesting, and well worth the effort IMO:

 

 

Hey thanks for this.

The gentleman talks about the green books, so I've linked the one he mentions here:

http://www.history.army.mil/html/books/007/7-4-1/index.html

Did you guys see this?

 

Sounds great!

 

Variation on the Mustang theme. Nice.

very nice new theme .... but is it me or is there a hint of the battlefield music at the end :)

 

Sounds great!

 

Guess we'll be hearing this in our sleep soon.

Seeing all the pics and live streams I was beginning to wonder if ED had overdone it with trees surrounding every farm field look. Scanning a Normandy satellite view of area it does look exactly like that. Spot on. Great job ED!:thumbup:

Have to agree looks amazing.

Wags livestreams show US style water towers in villages... Could ED team think about changing this by fully built water towers (not standing on pylons) ? In France, most are built like these ones and it will be more pleasant to use the map in ww2 period or modern era. Some examples :

I was thinking the same, Gpelfort, while watching the last streaming from Wags, as I have never seen those type of water towers (on pylons) in France but only in the US. But again, this is not a real game breaker and I am sure ED have more serious things to consider right now before the release of this map.

I wonder if we will ever see deformable terrain, I know it doesn't do anything other than add to immersion however so very very low down on most people's list.

Tank tracks in the grass, skid marks from belly landings etc...

I wonder if we will ever see deformable terrain, I know it doesn't do anything other than add to immersion however so very very low down on most people's list.

 

 

Tank tracks in the grass, skid marks from belly landings etc...

It may come with the T5 terrain engine

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nice pic. church does seem a little on the small side though.

OK, these pictures-screenshoots are beautiful, but I would like to see the damage model - screenshoots of devastated city after bombing. How does it look ruined city and ground?

And add a bad weather, dark clouds and little rain, to see how it looks when the weather's isn't nice.

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nice pic. church does seem a little on the small side though.

Yeah, scaling seems to be a bit of a problem with some props ^^

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nice pic. church does seem a little on the small side though.

The UK has a lot of Norman Churches from the 11th Century, most are very small affairs compared to later medieval churches:)

I wonder if we will ever see deformable terrain, I know it doesn't do anything other than add to immersion however so very very low down on most people's list.

 

Tank tracks in the grass, skid marks from belly landings etc...

It may come with the T5 terrain engine

Tracks are important in real life, they actually help you spot vehicles from the air. Would be nice if they could have them show. Won't hold my breath for it.

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nice pic. church does seem a little on the small side though.

It does seem small, but then again, small village, small chapel?

Yes, definitively too small. You can tell with the cars next to it and the size of the other houses. Churches are always placed in the center of the village with the bell tower way high above the other houses.

Yes, definitively too small. You can tell with the cars next to it and the size of the other houses. Churches are always placed in the center of the village with the bell tower way high above the other houses.

A vast majority of the time yes, however by no means always... ;)