Sneak Peeks, Coming Attractions, Works-In-Progress

[Jason Petho]

ORIGINAL: fritzfarlig

How many minutes is a turn ?
The old story (0:

It's variable, depending on the scenario.

[Jason Petho]

Campaign Series Vietnam: Scenarios. For transparency, here is a overview of the current vs planned scenario production count. If time permits, the scenario count for Vietnam - US Involvement will increase.

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Current vs Planned Scenario Count:

Cambodia: 0 vs 6
Indochina: 7 vs 17
Laos: 12 vs 16
Vietnam - Civil War: 12 vs 25
Vietnam - US involvement: 2 vs 60
Vietnam - after US involvement: 0 vs 10
Vietnam vs China: 0 vs 3

TOTAL: 33 vs 137
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[Deepstuff3725]

Looking forward to this game. Great work guys...

[Jason Petho]

Campaign Series Vietnam: ALPHA graphics. Here is the latest screenshot showing the progress of the Kontum master map. Still a way to go, but getting the key areas mapped. For the Dak To fans, this will be the primary map for all scenarios.

[Big Ivan]

Wow Jason![:D]

The top down graphics are awesome! Love the textures my friend!

John[:)]

[budd]

That is a pretty sweet looking map.

[Crossroads]

Thanks for your feedback. There's been a lot of effort put to 2D maps again, to make them another step forward from the ones in Middle East 2.0. Adding shadows to them to make them a tad more three dimensional, for one [:)]

[Big Ivan]

I see that Crossroads, that's real nice. The shadowing does make it look a lot more 3 dimensional!

Can't wait to see what that will look like down the road in EFIII.

Man that's Good Stuff![:)]

[Jason Petho]

Campaign Series Vietnam: ALPHA graphics. Here is the latest update on the III Corps area map. Still a long ways to go, but getting core areas done. Here is downtown Saigon ready for Tet!

[Jason Petho]

And the airport to the north, of course!

[BigDuke66]

Not sure if it was asked before, but what sources do you use to get that detailed maps?

[Jason Petho]

I'm using a variety of sources, depending on the location. The primary sources is the 1:50,000 map sheets available at the Vietnam archive database.

For Saigon, there are a number of additional reference maps that I am using to fill in the details

They are found here: Additional Maps

[Andrea G]

Impressive work!

[Jason Petho]

Thank you, Andrea!

[Jason Petho]

Campaign Series Vietnam: ALPHA graphics. Here is the latest update on the III Corps area map. This shows the Long Binh area plus the 1:50,000 source material that I am using as the primary reference.

[Jason Petho]

Campaign Series Vietnam: ALPHA graphics. I've renamed the Kontum master map to NW II Corps as I have expanded the size to the south to encompass the Ia Drang campaign area. In the screenshot, you'll see the pre-vegetation mountainous terrain that one will have to deal with south of Dak To.

[Jason Petho]

Campaign Series Vietnam: ALPHA graphics. Here is the southwest corner of the NW II Corps master map. The infamous LZ X-Ray at the northeast base of the Chu Pong massif. The map covers quite a large area (as it goes north to Dak To) and will be used for a number of scenarios of various battles that took place in the area in 1965.

[budd]

Just thought of something , will there be a mechanic/abstraction for clearing an area with explosives for an LZ?

[Jason Petho]

ORIGINAL: budd

Just thought of something , will there be a mechanic/abstraction for clearing an area with explosives for an LZ?

With the scenarios so equipped, you will be able to use "Daisycutters" or certain engineers will have jungle clearing capabilities.

[budd]

Thanks for the reply, that looks like some nasty terrain in that above shot. Can we see a 3d view of above terrain, looks pretty claustrophobic, wonder if the 3d conveys that feeling.