Peter Cairns Posted March 20, 2007 Share Posted March 20, 2007 I've just been looking at Google Earth Maps of Syria and I have two terrain questions. The first concerns season. Looking at the montague of pictures that make up the maps it is clear that some vary from a bright red to vivid greens. Some of this is no doubt due to terrain, but others where there is a marked difference between two individual photos show that depending on the season the surface vegitation can be markedly different. I think there has been discussions of things like olive groves etc, and early on I had raised the issue of the fact that a lot of open waste ground in mediterrainian countries has dense 2mtr high vegitation, but looking at the CM:SF screen shoots so far I see no indication yet of anything particularly rugged or dense, or indeed allowance for the time of year. The second point is an odd one. Approximately 60 mile South East of Damascus, there looks to be a random palch of dark green terrain about 20 miles across which looks to me bizarrely like an enourmous forest. Anybody got any ideas what it might be. Way in the north east, the euphrates valley looks like it's pretty dense foliage as well. Peter. [ March 20, 2007, 02:11 PM: Message edited by: Peter Cairns ] 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Michael Dorosh Posted March 20, 2007 Share Posted March 20, 2007 I was looking at Google Earth last week also - was amazed at the vivid stretch of green along the river also. Check out the parks inside of Damascus, too, up in the northwest. I like all the features where you can click the button and get a photograph of this street corner or that mosque. Neat stuff. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Peter Cairns Posted March 20, 2007 Author Share Posted March 20, 2007 Michael, You could always try assaultingthis.... HAMA Northern Syria Peter, 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Michael Dorosh Posted March 20, 2007 Share Posted March 20, 2007 Originally posted by Peter Cairns: Michael, You could always try assaultingthis.... HAMA Northern Syria Peter, Don't let rune see that picture... :mad: He gets enough crazy scenario ideas on his own... 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nicdain Posted March 20, 2007 Share Posted March 20, 2007 Approximately 60 mile South East of Damascus, there looks to be a random palch of dark green terrain about 20 miles across which looks to me bizarrely like an enourmous forest. Actually, it seems to me like a large agricultural area, since you can see the land parcels. Naturally vegetated zones are present, too. The interesting thing is that it seems also a volcanic area, with small cones. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Peter Cairns Posted March 20, 2007 Author Share Posted March 20, 2007 Nicdain Are we looking at the same one, as there are actually two, the dark one I was refering too is probably more ESE, where as the one with the reddish cones is more SSE. Where the roughly circular one meets a very light patch alone it's SE edge it looks very much like forest, although the resolution isn't great. Peter, 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Peter Cairns Posted March 20, 2007 Author Share Posted March 20, 2007 Nicdain, Your right about it being a volcano, if you click "Geographical Feature"s in the lower left "Layers' box then there are at least four volcanos that come up, two unnamed and one each at Jabal ad Druze and Es Safa. It looks like it's an enormous lava field. Jabal ad Druze Do you think we should start a campaign to have red hot lava flows included in the game. Peter. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nicdain Posted March 20, 2007 Share Posted March 20, 2007 yes, it is a very big volcanic apparatus, with huge basaltic lava flows. but, actually, previously I was looking at the most southern green patch. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nicdain Posted March 20, 2007 Share Posted March 20, 2007 OK, not so big in terms of altitude... let's say wide 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Peter Cairns Posted March 20, 2007 Author Share Posted March 20, 2007 Even founds some photos, and guess what it is atypical of the region because it snows there.... Picture of terrain. Peter. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nicdain Posted March 20, 2007 Share Posted March 20, 2007 Thanks Peter for sharing this info. Very interesting. For what I can see, the Jabal ad Duruz is not so low as I thought: 1800 m asl. The photo with the snow is quite odd to be seen in a Middle East region (though I heard about snow in Israel sometimes). Are we going to see winter camo for uniforms and vehicles in CM:SF?? :eek: 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Peter Cairns Posted March 20, 2007 Author Share Posted March 20, 2007 Of Course if we are looking for odd terrain we could just go North East 130 miles to Palmyra. PALMYRA The panorama shot on page four is particularly impressive. If they put that in as terrain they can reuse it in CM$ Gladiator. Peter. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Peter Cairns Posted March 20, 2007 Author Share Posted March 20, 2007 Aleppo citadel is another nice piece of terrain. Aleppo Citadel Peter. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nicdain Posted March 20, 2007 Share Posted March 20, 2007 It seems Syria is really worth a (tourist) visit! 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Peter Cairns Posted March 20, 2007 Author Share Posted March 20, 2007 Just been Looking a Damascus. I hadn't actually thought about it before but Syrianot only has a railroad system, but in the capital a fair bit of it seems to be underground. I bet you could hide quite alot in there. I like the tearrain so far that i've seen from the screen shots, but a lot of the older urban areas in syria seem to be ectremely irregular, with streets at angles with odd shaped houses far more common than a US style grid with square blocks. It might well be difficult to get that "Battle for Algers" Feel. Peter. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Peter Cairns Posted March 20, 2007 Author Share Posted March 20, 2007 This looks a good general site for people Syrian Images The scrolling panoramas are particularly good. Woodland Peter. [ March 20, 2007, 02:25 PM: Message edited by: Peter Cairns ] 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Beastttt Posted March 20, 2007 Share Posted March 20, 2007 can we say Syrian Massada wonder if the oil will last 8 days Originally posted by Peter Cairns: Michael, You could always try assaultingthis.... HAMA Northern Syria Peter, 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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