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Thread: Schmalfelden, Germany Map

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    A map based on the actual area around Schmalfelden, Germany located just west of Rothenburg o.d. Tauber and south of Wuerzburg where I was stationed with the US Army 1985-88.

    1:50,000 scale map used for topo:


    Apart from my desire to fight on "real" terrain, I selected this area out of my map collection because it is great "tank country". Low rolling ridges with open farmland broken by forests. This area has very small farming communities scattered every few km's. Their small size should hopefully "help" the AI.

    Sorry, no airfield. Too small to do much flying anyway, although I enough buzzing around in a helicopter.

    The map is not an "island" so there will be the issue with distortion of the satellite image past the edge of the map. The map size is 5 km x 5 km.

    I am using this imagery of the area as a base for geographic features. No guess work about where even singe trees and bushes are located (this is a low res version of what I am using):


    Although it may appear to be "flat" when flying over it, the area is hardly so, and offers good hull-down positions for AFVs. The contours on this image are at 1 meter. The "mess" in center left is a quarry.


    The road net is dense - typical of Germany. Orange lines are paved roads. I have "downgraded" most of the farm lanes to gravel or dirt. Actually most have light duty asphalt paving in Germany, but I thought it a bit "much", especially since the buildings provided in ArmA make everything have a Second World look about them - hardly prosperous enough to be paving farm lanes.


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    Very nice and interesting, looking forward to use this map.

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    looks really good, have you considered talking to the project '85 peeps at all?
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    Looking very good!
    Nothing beats a real landscape, looking forward to any progress. Now if we only had a CPU friendly grain field going with it it would be a dream come true!

    Keep it up

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    this looks darned awesome if i might say so.
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    Great map. How about making 1 wite old rouds so it cann be use for WW2 theater of operation. Just the thoat.
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    Beautiful. Love those patchwork fields and terrain.
    Okay, I am forum lurking lol.

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    Excellent! I was really wanting some decent 1980s W. German
    terrain!

    In the real world, this area would, in theory, have been
    the battleground for 4th Czech Army (at least) vs W. German
    II Korps and US VII Corps.

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