Sgt.Squarehead

You should rename this thread 'Lucky Strike's Botanical Gardens'.....Absolutely beautiful stuff. Do you have CM:SF2 at all.....There's a particular shrub I'm after for CM:H&E. PS - Your Spruce Trees are astounding, I had to look twice to be sure some of them were actually in game.....Truly beautiful.

PM Inbound. This campaign was very much designed for CM:SF1 and IIRC it's absolutely brutal.....I've never played it in CM:SF2, but I doubt it will be any easier.

I'm happy with it as is.....The tile at the end of the bridge isn't very visible.

Yes, but I'm not sure if I can use it directly on the beaches, IIRC it seems to get a soft edge that the 'boats' can partly emerge on I've actually used it at the end of the piers/pontoons and I think it looks OK.....Call it sea-weed! I suspect I could use Heavy Rocks instead TBH.....I think the key to the disembarking issue is the single ford tile at the end of a bridge (at the same elevation as the water itself). .

So, as the game stands, it's Geritol: 1 Ritalin: 2.....Tension mounts as we enter the final quarter!

Apparently 10,000 regulars have rallied to Massoud's banner.....If that's true and he can keep them provisioned (big if, that one), it's enough troops to make assaulting Panjshir hellish for the Taliban.

It's as I remembered, if you place either type of ford tile directly adjacent to the beaches it messes with the Heavy Rocks tiles, making this possible: And that just won't do at all! The fact that the mechanics seems to limit the points that the player can put his troops ashore to just piers/pontoons suits me quite well TBH as it will help me to set deadly traps for him predict what the player might do and then set deadly traps for him making my scripting easier.

I haven't found a way of getting troops to deploy directly onto the beaches (which are all Heavy Rocks, for 'boat' trapping purposes) yet. I don't actually recall what happens with a shallow ford adjacent to one.....I believe the 'boat' starts to emerge from the water in a very immersion (forgive the pun) breaking way. I've got it on my desktop now so I'll check again.....BrB.

Don't rule it out, @37mm is most tricksy with his tagging.....It might well be doable for dedicated coastal maps like this one. The real place is called Haiphong Bay.....The scenery is insane! It's kind of difficult to figure out how to make the island shapes in the editor & even more so to then make it possible for pixeltruppen to get up there.....Still working on that. No modding on my part.....Just lots of messing around with various combinations of tiles until I found a way to both keep the 'boats' in the water and enable their passengers to get ashore. I'd tried loads of combinations in the past and either the boat partly emerged from the water or the passengers wouldn't emerge from the boat.....Today it occured to me to try a very small bridge, used as a pontoon/pier, adjacent to a shallow ford tile..

Remember we're making this **** up as we go along.....We're still figuring out how to do most of these things. The map in that image is going to take as long or longer than 'The Delta' to make.....But at least I know it will work as intended now, so all the effort I've put into it thus far was worth it. This is roughly what I'm aiming for: Remember the current release is still very much a Beta.....It's coherent and it works, but quite a few of the maps etc. need tweaking as mods are updated, so I guarantee when we release the final version it will look an awful lot better (& TBH I don't think it looks too bad now).

LOL! For those interested in the potential riverine combat aspect of 'Heaven & Earth', (@General Jack Ripper) we have crossed what I believe is the last significant hurdle before making it happen: That's a scout platoon disembarking from their gunboat (BMP-2), onto a bridge that gets them ashore.....There's still absolutely no way for that gunboat to crawl out of the water onto any part of this map. Probably sounds trivial, but it took a lot of experimentation to get it to work. PS - Now I have to make all those islands climbable, they're kind of steep.....I have a cunning plan, but no idea if it will work.....Yet!

Probably not TBH.....But that won't stop us robbing it wholesale for goodies. Wow.....Those look amazing! Looking forward to the next update.....I'll modify a few maps to use those.

BHSFB Commandos take advantage of a handy stream to wash their smalls! Respect & thanks to @Lucky_Strike for his infinitely superior caption!

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Done?

It sounds like it's going to need a second volume 2021-20??

I don't think anyone (apart from maybe Steve & Charles) fully knows how that works...Even those of us who do use the editor.

If you don't know who Ahmad Massoud is (which you clearly don't if you are drawing equivalence between him and a 419 scammer), you really might want to stay out of this one...Seriously.

Beware the ones with bicycles!

You called?

Don't hesitate to shout if you do a full revamp.

The Young Lion has arisen: "In 1998, when I was 9 years old, my father, the mujahideen commander Ahmad Shah Massoud, gathered his soldiers in a cave in the Panjshir Valley of northern Afghanistan. They sat and listened as my father’s friend, French philosopher Bernard-Henri Lévy, addressed them. “When you fight for your freedom,” Lévy said, “you fight also for our freedom.” My father never forgot this as he fought against the Taliban regime. Up until the moment he was assassinated on Sept. 9, 2001, at the behest of the Taliban and al-Qaeda, he was fighting for the fate of Afghanistan but also for the West. Now this common struggle is more essential than ever in these dark, tense hours for my homeland. I write from the Panjshir Valley today, ready to follow in my father’s footsteps, with mujahideen fighters who are prepared to once again take on the Taliban. We have stores of ammunition and arms that we have patiently collected since my father’s time, because we knew this day might come. We also have the weapons carried by the Afghans who, over the past 72 hours, have responded to my appeal to join the resistance in Panjshir. We have soldiers from the Afghan regular army who were disgusted by the surrender of their commanders and are now making their way to the hills of Panjshir with their equipment. Former members of the Afghan Special Forces have also joined our struggle. But that is not enough. If Taliban warlords launch an assault, they will of course face staunch resistance from us. The flag of the National Resistance Front will fly over every position that they attempt to take, as the National United Front flag flew 20 years ago. Yet we know that our military forces and logistics will not be sufficient. They will be rapidly depleted unless our friends in the West can find a way to supply us without delay. The United States and its allies have left the battlefield, but America can still be a “great arsenal of democracy,” as Franklin D. Roosevelt said when coming to the aid of the beleaguered British before the U.S. entry into World War II. To that end, I entreat Afghanistan’s friends in the West to intercede for us in Washington and in New York, with Congress and with the Biden administration. Intercede for us in London, where I completed my studies, and in Paris, where my father’s memory was honored this spring by the naming of a pathway for him in the Champs-Élysées gardens. Know that millions of Afghans share your values. We have fought for so long to have an open society, one where girls could become doctors, our press could report freely, our young people could dance and listen to music or attend soccer matches in the stadiums that were once used by the Taliban for public executions — and may soon be again. The Taliban is not a problem for the Afghan people alone. Under Taliban control, Afghanistan will without doubt become ground zero of radical Islamist terrorism; plots against democracies will be hatched here once again. No matter what happens, my mujahideen fighters and I will defend Panjshir as the last bastion of Afghan freedom. Our morale is intact. We know from experience what awaits us. But we need more weapons, more ammunition and more supplies. America and its democratic allies do not just have the fight against terrorism in common with Afghans. We now have a long history made up of shared ideals and struggles. There is still much that you can do to aid the cause of freedom. You are our only remaining hope." I think it must be said...He is most definitely his father's son...The sheer guts of the man to call ettention to himself now! https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2021/08/18/mujahideen-resistance-taliban-ahmad-massoud/ Once again, The Northern Alliance is still standing up to Taliban, even when all seems lost!

Looks a bit too orderly TBH. The Northern Alliance in Panjshir under Saleh & Ahmed Massoud have declared their intention to continue to resist the Taliban.

You can work around this by giving the Blue side a single NATO/US unit as their first pick in the editor. The unit doesn't need to appear and either aircraft or artillery units will do to get you the Blue flag.....It just has to be the first thing in the list of units.

Magnificent stuff! Might it be worth 'chunking' the map for individual scenarios before going too far?