Profile of jay.deelicious

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v1.0 The Battle of Aachen was a major combat action of World War II, fought by American and German forces in and around Aachen, Germany, between 2–21 October 1944. The city had been incorporated into the Siegfried Line, the main defensive network on Germany's western border; the Allies had hoped to capture it quickly and advance into the industrialized Ruhr Basin. Although most of Aachen's civilian population was evacuated before the battle began, much of the city was destroyed and both sides suffered heavy losses. It was one of the largest urban battles fought by U.S. forces in World War II, and the first city on German soil to be captured by the Allies. The battle ended with a German surrender, but their tenacious defense significantly disrupted Allied plans for the advance into Germany.

I was interested in making a fully urban map since most of the maps I see are countryside-based. I know buildings can be overly strong and that better players tend to like more open maps that allow for army/vehicle maneuverability so I kept that in mind when making this, trying to strike the balance between city/open space so the map feels good but also plays well. I essentially copied the layout for Elst Outskirts due to it's popularity as a map and small distance between VPs. I feel like this will really help the battle feel tight in the confines of the city while also allowing forces to cover plenty of the map. I've also done some choice building destruction and unselectablity to help with the overpoweredness of buildings and added plenty of green cover options near enterable buildings to hopefully allow for countering.

Anyways feel free to leave any feedback. I'm not sure if I'll make any major changes as this took forever to make, but I'll always consider good feedback.

Took a few more replay pics and figured out the picture issue so here's some without having to click a link.

Looking toward the central VP


Looking toward the right VP in the distance


Looking toward the left fuel and muni points. Left VP just off to the left of the screen.

From the right side of the map looking left

Are you still running the game when this happens? The game will lock the map file and not let you update it.

I do think that may be it. I thought if I was back in the main menu not accessing it I could update things and then open it back up through the modding page but I guess not. Kind of annoying if you want to make little changes and have to close the game every time. Thanks for the help.

On the night of 5 June 1944, a force of 181 men, led by Major John Howard, took off from RAF Tarrant Rushton in Dorset, southern England in six gliders to capture Pegasus Bridge (Bénouville Bridge) and "Horsa Bridge", a few hundred yards to the east, over the Orne River. The force was composed of D Company (reinforced with two platoons of B Company), 2nd Battalion, Oxford and Bucks Light Infantry; 20 sappers of the Royal Engineers of 249 Field Company (Airborne); and men of the Glider Pilot Regiment. The object of this action was to prevent German armor from crossing the bridges and attacking the eastern flank of the landings at Sword Beach.
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Workshop link here

Pictures here
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I've never made a map before, but I've been playing a lot of CoH2 lately and wanted to mess around with the World Builder. I've always beeen interested in D-Day and Operation Market Garden and I wanted to find a possibly lesser known battle to base the map off of a real place and battle during the war. I ended up finding this small town and bridge on google maps and researched it and found out about Operation Deadstick and couldn't believe I'd never heard of it. Turned out to be the perfect setting.

Hope a few people can play the map and give any feedback they feel like. I'd love for the map to be competitively viable. Sorry I can't seem to get pictures to show up in the post. I just put the imgur link.
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Side note: Does anyone know how to create the simplified minimaps most maps use in the selection screen?

Well the problem came back on a new map. Same error code. Guess my compatibility fix didn't actually fix it? Guess I'll try restarting a few times and seeing if anything changes.