#3922
Battle of Berlin
Hi everyone !
I would like to present my WIP map for COH, and hopefully for EF. I submitted this WIP to Apex on RelicNews forums, and he talked me into presenting it here, so, well, here I am.
This is my first map, and it it settled in 1945, during the bloody battle of Berlin. More precisely, it is focused on the battle for the Regierungsviertel, the ministries and Chancellery area.
I have tried to reproduce the exact geography of Berlin Mittel, and whenever possible the look of the buildings.
Some pictures, to start with :
Overhead Map : (with street names, so that you get to locate the streets on the caps)
When I first began to work on this map, OF was still at least 6 months ahead from release. At the time, I decided to pick up Berlin because I really wanted to build a map after an iconic WW2 battle, and I had always been passionate about Stalingrad. But in my opinion, a Stalingrad map without a Russian faction just did not make sense. And after all, the US were about to make it to Berlin (and all it took was a gigantic bluff on the part of Stalin to secure a Russian only influence over all the Berlin area) so I thought it wasn't such a big shame to replace the Russians by the US.
And when Relic issued OF without a Russian faction, I was sooo disappointed that the moment I heard about EF, I became an instant fan : I knew I would, at last, have the chance to play Berlin with the Russians.
Now the problem is that I designed the map with an overall project ignoring every single rule for EF maps. I thought about trying to build it after the historical situation, that is to say, have the Germans spread all over the map, armed and entrenched, and give the attackers a good deal of units and resources to balance the thing. Apex and I talked a bit about, how it was forbidden to have any functional MG/AT gun emplacements, in order to ensure a perfect balance.
It is such an honor for me to have a map chosen for EF, that I can consider the possibility of abiding by the rules and make a compromise with my vision of the map. Maybe I will make two versions... I still don't know.
Anyway, I wanted to hear your comments and suggestions about the map, knowing it is still really WIP. (roughly 50% of the map built - yeah I know I am slow, but I am always perfecting things...) By the way, the screens are "old", and things have changed since I made them, and among other things, I altered the weather. No more of that wet look (I was sick of a bug which added the sound of the rain, without any actual rain in the map)
Enjoy.
A.
I would like to present my WIP map for COH, and hopefully for EF. I submitted this WIP to Apex on RelicNews forums, and he talked me into presenting it here, so, well, here I am.
This is my first map, and it it settled in 1945, during the bloody battle of Berlin. More precisely, it is focused on the battle for the Regierungsviertel, the ministries and Chancellery area.
I have tried to reproduce the exact geography of Berlin Mittel, and whenever possible the look of the buildings.
Some pictures, to start with :
Overhead Map : (with street names, so that you get to locate the streets on the caps)
When I first began to work on this map, OF was still at least 6 months ahead from release. At the time, I decided to pick up Berlin because I really wanted to build a map after an iconic WW2 battle, and I had always been passionate about Stalingrad. But in my opinion, a Stalingrad map without a Russian faction just did not make sense. And after all, the US were about to make it to Berlin (and all it took was a gigantic bluff on the part of Stalin to secure a Russian only influence over all the Berlin area) so I thought it wasn't such a big shame to replace the Russians by the US.
And when Relic issued OF without a Russian faction, I was sooo disappointed that the moment I heard about EF, I became an instant fan : I knew I would, at last, have the chance to play Berlin with the Russians.
Now the problem is that I designed the map with an overall project ignoring every single rule for EF maps. I thought about trying to build it after the historical situation, that is to say, have the Germans spread all over the map, armed and entrenched, and give the attackers a good deal of units and resources to balance the thing. Apex and I talked a bit about, how it was forbidden to have any functional MG/AT gun emplacements, in order to ensure a perfect balance.
It is such an honor for me to have a map chosen for EF, that I can consider the possibility of abiding by the rules and make a compromise with my vision of the map. Maybe I will make two versions... I still don't know.
Anyway, I wanted to hear your comments and suggestions about the map, knowing it is still really WIP. (roughly 50% of the map built - yeah I know I am slow, but I am always perfecting things...) By the way, the screens are "old", and things have changed since I made them, and among other things, I altered the weather. No more of that wet look (I was sick of a bug which added the sound of the rain, without any actual rain in the map)
Enjoy.
A.
