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zwobot, The counter image was showing off the ability to modify counter backgrounds with images. The map was started and most likely still sitting on the "shelf" as we had many other things go on after MR started that. The plan is to have the Canadians along with the French, East Germans, and Czechs in Southern Storm to go along with the first four nations as we start to expand the countries.

The Rastatt maps is on my shelf now, lined up for Southern Storm. It's an interesting map, because of its terrain, the relation to Macksey's book and the presence of so many NATO facilities in the 1980's.
Kenneth Macksey's book, a training aid and story originally written for the Canadian Forces (some based in the SW corner of the map, at CFB Soellingen) drew a lot of inspiration from the terrain near Rastatt. Many of the towns and terrain features (such as Schloss Favorite) appear by name in the book, although not at their exact location. Blickheim, the town central to the battle and book's story however is fictitious.
Aside from the Canadian air force and mechanized infantry bataillon at CFB Soellingen, the area hosts Forces Francaises en Allemagne in Baden-Baden and Rastatt, an NATO ammo depot (#57), a NATO fuel depot (#44), a FFA training area and french light army helicopters at Baden-Oos airport.

William

p.s. If anybody has access to Kenneth Macksey's sequel to First Clash ("Counterstroke"), I'm really interested.