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Solomon Islands '43 Map.

 

 

From Guadalcanal to Rubaul:

 

 

Battle of Eastern Solomons

23-25 Aug 1942

 

Battle of the Santa Cruz Islands

25-27 Oct 1942

 

Attacks on New Georgia

9 Dec 1942-24 Jan 1943

 

Battle of Rennell Island

29-30 Jan 1943

 

Landing on the Russell Islands

21 Feb 1943

 

Battle of the Bismarck Sea

2-4 Mar 1943

 

Landings on New Georgia

30 Jun 1943 - 5 Aug 1943

 

Battle of Kula Gulf

5-6 Jul 1943

 

Battle of Kolombangara

12-13 Jul 1943

 

Battle of Vella Gulf

6-7 Aug 1943

 

Battle off Horaniu

18 Aug 1943

 

Battle of Vella Lavella

6 Oct 1943

 

Attack on Bougainville

1 Nov 1943

 

Battle of Empress Augusta Bay

1-2 Nov 1943

 

Battle of Cape St. George

26 Nov 1943

 

 

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I couldn't possibly agree with this "Wish" more!! :thumbup: I believe that the campaign in the Solomons, from Guadalcanal to Bouganville represents a tremendous opportunity for ED to provide a battle ground map that would allow for carrier vs. carrier battles as well as fierce air to air combat throughout the island chain, not to mention the air to ground/sea combat that took place almost continuously from the first day of coming ashore on Guadalcanal until we were done with Bouganville. And the Corsair played a significant part in that campaign. The aerial opponents there were almost exclusively IJN

 

 

 

If ED wanted to shift further West, they could do New Guinea and produce a Razorback Jug for that :thumbup: The aerial opponents there were almost exclusively IJA.

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I couldn't possibly agree with this "Wish" more!! :thumbup: I believe that the campaign in the Solomons, from Guadalcanal to Bouganville represents a tremendous opportunity for ED to provide a battle ground map that would allow for carrier vs. carrier battles as well as fierce air to air combat throughout the island chain, not to mention the air to ground/sea combat that took place almost continuously from the first day of coming ashore on Guadalcanal until we were done with Bouganville. And the Corsair played a significant part in that campaign. The aerial opponents there were almost exclusively IJN

 

 

 

If ED wanted to shift further West, they could do New Guinea and produce a Razorback Jug for that :thumbup: The aerial opponents there were almost exclusively IJA.

 

 

There is so much there, in that confined space, for a little over a year's fighting.

 

 

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Spent a decade there w/ CFS2.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Bowie


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Would love it too, along with "Whistling Death..." :-)

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If ED were going to cover the whole archipelago it’d require a map of around 1k x 2k km. lots of it would be water though.

 

For comparison

 

NTTR 605 x 605 km

Normandy 267 x 348 km

Strait of Hormuz 550 by 550 km

Georgia 500 x 500 km

 

TFC have a late model F4F and various flavours of P40 to hand. I can see both of these arriving sooner rather than later.


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The total land area of the Solomon Islands archipelago is below 40.000 km², that's a 200 x 200 km square. Even today most of it is just covered with jungles and scattered small villages, even more so during WW2. It no comparison too any of the current maps in DCS, that all include some urban agglomerations.

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3 hours ago, Cunctator said:

The total land area of the Solomon Islands archipelago is below 40.000 km², that's a 200 x 200 km square. Even today most of it is just covered with jungles and scattered small villages, even more so during WW2. It no comparison too any of the current maps in DCS, that all include some urban agglomerations.


Yes, I did assume that most of the islands would be covered with jungle but wasn’t 100% sure.  
 

It would make a spectacular and very useful map.

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Indeed. I hope we will see many more Pacific islands maps in the future. Once ED has created a basic set of 3D models for vegetation and WW2 airfield buildings they should be able to to them with considerable less effort than the other DCS maps we've got so far.

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Man I would absolutely LOVE this map!

 

Question: I've done a little scenery-building for FSX / P3d... is there any way for users to create freeware sceneries / maps for DCS?  Would be a fun community project to divide up the archipelago...  most of the map would be water or jungle, as noted.  I'm certain it wouldn't be payware (or ED-created freeware) quality, but might be interesting...

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7 hours ago, Stearmandriver said:

Man I would absolutely LOVE this map!

 

Question: I've done a little scenery-building for FSX / P3d... is there any way for users to create freeware sceneries / maps for DCS?  Would be a fun community project to divide up the archipelago...  most of the map would be water or jungle, as noted.  I'm certain it wouldn't be payware (or ED-created freeware) quality, but might be interesting...


User made maps aren’t possible currently.

 

 


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I would LOVE to see a Solomon Islands map!

And also F4U-1 and F4U-1A versions of the upcoming F4U-1D.

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On 1/19/2021 at 7:05 AM, Motown said:

StripMap.jpg

 

I strenuously 'second' this motion....

 

 

Awesome strip map, from Banika, w/ details of the usual suspects.

 

Great F4U contribution.

 

Thanks for posting.

 

 

 

 

Bowie

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