Profile of Mortar

I was blaming Relic and the Alpha team. No concerns though. Things are a changing and the future is very bright. I'll have an announcement on that shortly.

We have our very first Napalm..."Soon". The assimilation is complete.

(in case you're wondering....I'm joking. Sort of...)

Close 3 v 3 on Angermunde. Soviet arty vs. OKW/OST heavy tanks.

My great great uncle was mentioned several times in Cornelius Ryan's The Longest Day that the movie with same name was based on. He was a Ranger NCO that landed at Pointe du Hoc and I hear he became close friends with Walter Cronkite after the war. Anyone else know where your relatives served in WW2? Its pretty cool playing CoH on a map based on where one of your relatives fought.

Great story Basilone. It's funny you would mention that about relatives and maps....

My father (yes, I'm 50 years old and he would be 90 if he was alive today) was a Glider Trooper Mortarman (thus my nickname) in the 194th Glider Infantry Regiment of the 17th Airborne. I know he entered the ETO sometime in the fall of 1944, and his unit's first action was shortly after Patton's 3rd army had relieved Bastogne. I know for a fact he fought in the Battle of the Bulge and I'm fairly certain was involved in the Battle of Dead Man's Ridge which took place Jan 4-9th, 1945 near Flamierge, Belgium (about 10 miles west of Bastogne).

http://www.thedropzone.org/europe/bulge/Mclain.html

I also know for a fact he was involved in Operation Varsity which was the Airborne component of Operation Plunder....Montgomery's offensive across the Rhine in late March, 1945. His unit, the 194th GIR was tasked with taking the town of Diersfordt and clearing the nearby Diersfordter Wald (forest). And he went in on a glider landing behind enemy lines near German artillery which engaged them with direct fire. The 70th anniversary of this Operation is just this week!

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Varsity

In honor of him, I created a Coh2 map called Diersfordt. It's a 2v2 map on the Workshop if you're interested.

Sorry for taking your thread off topic Ami!!!

This is what it has come to...

that is nice to hear. i hope this happens again later with the entire map pool.



I do not know about this. I think it is quiet easy. just make it so that map is not too closed or open, and symmetrical. not identically but to somewhat.

i.e. Hurtgen Forest... the northern side has to cross the river all the time while southern side never has to unless harassing. wtf.

What I meant by difficult is learning to use the World Builder tool. I suspect if it wasn't difficult we would see 10x as many maps as we do. I was a complete novice when I built my first one. I enjoyed the process of learning and doing it, BUT it did take a fairly serious commitment of time and in reality I know it wouldn't stand a chance of passing QA in Relic's mind.

When you combine the difficulty of learning map making, the time commitment, and the fact that Relic refuses to commit QA resources to community maps...there really isn't much incentive to continue to make maps. At least from my perspective.

This is why I only made the one. I spent dozens of hours making this one map and I have YET to even see it played by other players much less ever hope to see it in automatch rotation.