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Extract from the game map.
Baltic area.
Start 41-scenario.
OOB 22-6.
Added german naming and historical airfields.
Red is Fliegerhorst. Major base.
Yellow is Einsatzhafen ( operational. Minor base.
Green is Feldflugplatz ( field airfied) and Landeplatz (landing ground) if used by a german air group.
Only so far implemented in the Baltics)
Dates of german occupation.
Latitude and Longitude.
Ferry map sign.
Lighthouses.
Important starting mine fields.
Goran

Extract from the game map.
Belarus area.
Start 41-scenario.
OOB 22-6.
Added german naming and historical airfields.
Red is Fliegerhorst. Major base.
Yellow is Einsatzhafen ( operational. minor base.)
Green is Feldflugplatz ( field airfield) and Landeplatz (landing ground) if used by a german air group.
Dates of german occupation.
Latitude and Longitude.
GoranW

Extract from the game map -Planning map.
Western Ukraine up to long.30
Start 41-scenario.
Added german naming and historical airfields.
Red is Fliegerhorst. Major base.
Yellow is Einsatzhafen ( operational. minor base.)
Green is Feldflugplatz ( field airfield) and Landeplatz (landing ground) if used by a german air group.
Dates of german occupation.(in the west soviet occupation)
Latitude and Longitude.
Historical fonts.
GoranW

Planning map with relevant airfields during the war -41 until summer 43.
Multi source research. (Luckily I have a russian speaking brother)
and thanks to the site geonames.org.
Basic geo. localisation from german war maps in scale 1-300.000.
Possible from notations in the the Flieger Atlas.
Long. Lat. Some initial mine fields. Lighthouses. Occupation dates.
Green is landing field (Landeplatz) with german use or field airfields (Feldflugplatz).
Yellow is operational airfield (Einsatzhafen) or minor civilian field.
Red is major fields (Fliegerhorst) or big civilian airfield.
WitE-2 game airfields in pink. Interesting to see which are choosen.
Map names are from up to downwards in size.
German naming after Flieger Atlas from -41 up to june-43.
Of course I realize that errors exist especially when sources differ in supposed facts. Goran

Interesting to compare with history.
Turn 4, middle of july.
Ai-Ai play. 41-45 scenario.
Army group north attacking up to Pskow (Pleskau).
Compare with occ. dates. Hard battles around Pskow.
Attacking hexes always "Angriff" and battle hex "Kampf"
Colour line to the right shows if moved or not.
Colour line above unit shows formation belonging.
Unit colour shows type of unit.This from ex OKH down to divisions.
Then coloured by country. Historical airfields.
Nothing changed that alters game play.
Goran

Road to Leningrad with Karelen.
Up to start final turn 17 12-oct-41.
Ai-Ai. Compare to occupation dates.
Historical frontlines turn 15 and 20.
Game and historical airfields of importance.
Colour graded units on both sides. Upper thin line is formation belonging.
Line to the right is degree of movement. Lat. Long.Some lighthouses
Interesting are the fortresses and the finnish occupation of Podporosje.
Goran

Start turn 2. Ai-Ai.
Scenario with extended OOB by Theo41-ITA
compared to usual -41 scenario.
Goran

Turn 10 24 aug. Ai-Ai.
Scenario with extended OOB by Theo41-ITA
compared to usual -41 scenario.
On the left historical frontlines of turn 5-10 and 15.
On the right occupation dates.
Goran

Planning map with start OOB. 22-6.
Base map developed from GeneralsMap mod by overkill01.
Especially great are the outlines of the coastline.
Lat. Long, Occupation dates.
German time accurate fonts and extended naming.
Historical airfields. Red-Fliegerhorst (major airbase), Yellow-Einsatzhafen (operational airfield)
and Green-Feldflugplatz ( field) or Landeplatz (landing ground-this only if used by a german air group during the war)
Ordinary ingame airfields with a size sign in it.
Map includes part of southern Finland.
Some minefields, map ferry signs and lighthouses.
Goran

Beautiful map.
Europäisches Russland onto a WitE-2 map.
(no text,rivers and rails on the later map)
-41 european borders.
( note that the railway Armjansk to Cherson is absent as in all maps
prior to spring -42)
Goran

10 feb.-45.
Ai-Ai. Vistula to Berlin scenario.
Hard battles around Königsberg.
Still existing Kurland Pocket.
Compare with historical occupation dates.
All historical airfields of importance.
Lat. Long. Modified counters in order not to clutter the map.
Lighthouses. German names and font type.
Goran

How easy is it for you to mod the generals map to give that parchment effect? Is that a separate download you could create or no?

M60A3TTS wrote: Sun Jan 14, 2024 6:24 am How easy is it for you to mod the generals map to give that parchment effect? Is that a separate download you could create or no?

Base map is obvious the beautiful generals map.
Most genial about that is the marked coastline.
Then most tiles are slightly changed to give a bit more variation
but not changing the game map to alter play information.
The parchment effect is just to alter the tiles with added wished texture ,
in my case, with help of Photoshop. This in order to more resemble a real old paper map.
Likewise with Lat. Long., airfield signs, ferry signs and lighthouses.
Historical airfields are graded accordingly to german war data.
Goran

Added to the game-planning map.
Historical airfields in -37 border Germany.( Including East-Preussia.)
Not yet fully implemented in pre war Poland,Austria or Tscheckoslovakia..
Three grades ; Fliegerhorst- Einsatzhafen and Feldflugplatz.
Red, yellow resp. green colour german airfield signs.
If many in a hex, the sign is for the highest level field.
Added to base airfields marks in the game.
Some Landeplätze if used by airgroups from-41.
Lat.Long. Occupation dates by russian or western forces.
Goran

Planning map.
Airfields research. Graded airfields.From Feldflugplatz, Einsatshafen to Fliegerhorst.
(Landeplätze if german airgroups were stationed)
From german research. Based on lat.long and representated on a map.
Flugplatzatlas -42 and -43.with updates.
Luftwaffe bodenorganisation
and many Luftwaffe navigationskarten.
Allied aeronautical charts. Caucasus area still do do. Goran

Road to Karelia. Ai-Ai.
Played into an allied war map. Scale 1:4M
Turn 5 20 july-41
Situation between forces in the played game and
historical lines at turn 2 ( 29/6), turn 5 (20/7) and turn 10 (24/8).
Goran

Planning map WitE-2.
Historical airfields added.
Graded in size/functionality.
No interference with the game map.
Fliegerhorst, Einsatzhafen,Feldflugplatz
or Landeplatz if used by a german airgroup
Long. Lat.controlled upon OKH Deutsche Heereskarte 1:300 000.
Sources are german Flugplatzatlas -jan. -42 and april -43.
with addons up to summer -43.
Also Luftwaffe Bodenorganisation and Navigations maps.
Checked with AAF,s Aeronautical charts and Vogels many Fliegerkarten.
Also of course controlled against professional researchers
as G. Mattiello, L. DeZeng, J. Prien, C. Bergström and J.Zapf .
Sites like niehorster.org, ww2.dk and wwii.germandocsinrussia.org
Russian sites like soldat.ru, allaces.ru, rkka.ru. and forum.patriotcenter.ru
Added some towns and villages.
Long. Lat., german naming and suitable fonts.
Some lighthouses and starting mine fields,
Errors are bound to exist of course.
Many naming and localisation problems
that must be solved by a decision. Could be wrong.
Also difficult to place airfields into the map when map errors exist.
In some areas ,not many, the map is less exact.
Tried to keep added names and airfields in, as good as possible,
relation to game rivers, rails and already existing cities/villages.
I hope and think there is no change in game play.
The map is too big to be put up here.
Download file;https://we.tl/t-TKwvbuRYUt

Goran

Turn 10. Ai-Ai. 28 aug. Road to Karelia scenario.
Played onto several sheets of the german internationale Weltkarte 1: 1 000 000.
Units and historical frontline.
Goran

T1 Weichsel-Berlin Scenario. Late january-45.
Warschau and Radom taken.
Battles west of Warschau from
Mielau-Plöhnen-Lowitsch
and Kamienna-Mieschow more to the south.
Latest attack as seen on the map onto Praschnitz.( Angriff on the game map)
German retreat to south Willenberg.(Rückzug on the game map)
Small R are routed units. Historical airfields to some degree.
All especially soviet ones hastily built not notated.
Quite historical development as can be judged from occupation dates..
Goran

See also an earlier post.
New Planning map. https://we.tl/t-1f2hSb0ITg
Some locations are corrected and some historical airfields are added.
Goran