Normandy for you Mappers


Pvt. Stephenson
05-22-2006, 01:15 PM
http://sparkyasundevil.tripod.com/id11.html
I'd like to see a map of Ravenoville.

Ol' Noodle Head
05-22-2006, 01:29 PM
beauuutiful pictures. I love the church/chapel...note the tabernacle and angels. I think if we're to do better on church interiors, the mapping community really needs some good models. I mean...we have to make do with a gravestone cross for like, everything. How about some tabernacles, high altars, statues, or crucifixes?

Step up, modellers! :p

FuzzDad
05-22-2006, 06:21 PM
I've had these pages book-marked for a long time. I think what you can take away are parts and pieces but that area as a whole (the entire bridge and causeway area) does not translate well to the DoD environment. This was the La Fiere Bridge area. During WW2 you had two very small hamlets at each end of a long open road with flooded fields on the left and the right. THe bridge was at one end. The fight was fierce and many died because it was open with little or no cover on the road between the hamlets. Both sides attacked/counter-attacked with heavy losses over eh course of a day or so.

Read this: http://www.thedropzone.org/europe/Normandy/dolan.html

My take is that you could cheat w/the area and use the buildings with a much smaller open area between the two (sortof a village-version of dod_schwetz) and you might be able to pull it off. That said...those pics are some of the very same places visted by the guys who did the BiA series.

Pvt. Stephenson
05-23-2006, 12:09 AM
Ya, maybe with the Hamlet add some scattered house's in a field.

piu piu
05-23-2006, 08:10 AM
great footage.
if someone needs something to be modelled, just let me know.

Cazee
05-29-2006, 08:33 AM
Just play BIA ???:rolleyes: :rolleyes: the place are def in bia :P:P

Day of Defeat Forum Archive created by Neil Jedrzejewski.

This in an partial archive of the old Day of Defeat forums orignally hosted by Valve Software LLC.
Material has been archived for the purpose of creating a knowledge base from messages posted between 2003 and 2008.