omaha beach idea

[pmbf1942]

Not to mention, it was filmed in ireland, not normandy.

And where can i get the base directories?

[pmbf1942]

why dont we just give the Francecoastline.com link to the devs, and lets see what they can do. we can also find some other references, like bunker placements, arty bunkers, pillboxes, minefeilds, or barbed wire placements. or beach length, beach width, bluff height

nother thing, there was never a sand sea wall, or shingle, they were all concrete

[pvt. Allen]

Originally Posted by pmbf1942

Not to mention, it was filmed in ireland, not normandy.

And where can i get the base directories?

It was filmed in Ireland because Normandy was cahnged too much, I wouldn't blame the film for this.
As for base directories, you just have to set the ed42 location, bfdev location and all the unpacked archives location. Readme is clear on what you are supposed to set and what not.

As for that website it's not much of use, I like it because it's nice to compare how it all looked before and how it looks now, but everything is cahnged way too much to base maps on these photos. Most of the old vegetation, especailly hedges have been removed, most of marshes do not exist anymore and there are alot of new buildings. Go to my gallery at take a look at the Carentan outskirts photos, almost everything is different.
And finally, devs don't need much of our research help unless it's something more than owning normal book or having acces to googles.
They already have two fine researches and many beta testers who are more than willing to help.

[pmbf1942]

k, Ill get to ED42 as soon as I can,thanks.

Also, they didnt film in Normandy cause of the strict laws, and historical preservation programs, pluss people live there. I think that Omaha beach, is sacred ground and should not be built on. Omaha should be a French National Monument, not a suburb.

According to my book, at omaha, there were:

8 FH Tall Bunkers (SPR)
2 Fire Control Bunkers
2 Radar Bunkers
4 Observation Bunkers
5 to 7 Casemates
3 subterrainian huge ammo bunkers
1 huge tunnel compelx with food storage, barrackses, and mg ports
All bunkers and buildings were joined together by these tunnels.
23 AT Guns
6 found kurmalaufs (STG44+curved barrel)
And more.......too much

[pmbf1942]

oh and,
10-14 small pillboxes
9-12 larger pillboxes

[oscar989]

Now we have an excuse to for MdGibs to make us the Stg44 with the curved barrel.

[cc.]

Originally Posted by LIGHTNING [NL]

Omaha beach changed a lot, you're better off basing your map off old ww2 maps.

I've been on the beach, its pretty different. Very flat.

[G.Drew (bf2)(cod2)]

Originally Posted by FuzzyBunny

Thing is, I like the idea of giving Charlie Sector DD tanks.

"Why, in god's name?" you say! They all sank, didn't they? Released way too far offshore, and got swamped and sank.

Well, I really wonder whether BF2 can have "weather", specificially, waves in the ocean. It'd be interesting to have the possibility of a bunch of tanks spawning where the landing boats pop up now, and chugging their way to shore. With waves, you could make it so there'd be a massive overwhelming probability that they'd sink (plus that whole artillery thing), but with just a slight chance that one would make it to shore and then, GOOD NIGHT ROSIE.

I've always thought FH focused too much on what was and not what could have been--i.e. a lot of scenarios could use a little bit of tweaking regarding with what resources each side goes into them.

While 42 tanks landed safely at the western end of Omaha beach, about 3 of the Eastern-side DDs from the 741 tank battalion landed dry (of 30 launched.) I believe Charlie Sector takes place on that bit of the beach, so it wouldn't be too much of a stretch to enter that possibility.

Let the flaming begin..

i think u should b looking for the forum 'flamethrowers and DD tanks'

[pmbf1942]

I cant base my omaha on some old ww2 maps, theyre old, black and white and hard to see.

[G.Drew (bf2)(cod2)]

mybe eyewitness accounts possiblely (tho tht could b hard)