Big maps mod for Panzercorps

HBalck · Post by **HBalck** » Thu Jun 16, 2011 9:26 am

Hi
Now this is the new thread for the big maps - Thank you Iain.
The bigger maps are meant for nice Multiplayer games, but a Campaign modus with an Tankgroup like Guderian are possible - I hope.
Now - with Panzer Corps - we can bring up the WWII to a new level for years to play - Thank you !

The scale of all my maps are 1 km = 1 Hexfield.

All available maps:

1939 Poland
• Battle around Mlawa http://img221.imageshack.us/img221/1739 ... dmlawa.png map size: 92 x 78
• LCG 1st tank division

1940 France
• Fall Gelb – Battle of France
• Fall Gelb – The Battle of Sedan
• Fall Gelb – The Battle of Dunkirk
• LCG 1st tank division http://www.matrixgames.com/forums/tm.asp?m=1824811
• Sea Lion http://img29.imageshack.us/img29/38/sealion.png map size: 340 x 180
• Sea Lion+ (with french coast) http://i1.fastup.de/view.asp?file=Sealion%2B.png map size: 450 x 350

1941 Balkan
• Crete

1941-44 Eastern Front
• Barbarossa Armygroup centre June/July 1941
• LCG 18th tank division http://www.matrixgames.com/forums/tm.asp?m=1824312
• Smolensk July 1941
• Battle of Moskau Oktobre/December 1941
• Sewastopol 42
• Kharkow 42 http://www.bilder-upload.eu/upload/dd31 ... 861243.png map size: 310 x 282
• Rzhev 42 http://img221.imageshack.us/img221/2030/rzhevvyazma.png map size: 254 x 200
• Operation Uranus Novembre/Dec 1942
• Operation Wintergewitter 1943
• Battle of Kursk 43 http://www.bilder-upload.eu/upload/252e ... 062558.png map size: 380 x 301
• Mius 1943
• Kharkow 43
• Bridgehead at Kanev 1943 http://img27.imageshack.us/img27/5337/b ... dkanev.png map size: 108 x 58
• Korsun 1944
• Minsk 1944
• Operation Konrad I-III (Budapest 45) http://www.bilder-upload.eu/upload/006d ... 876681.png map size: 354 x 246
• Last stand in Prussia 45

1941-43 North Africa
• Operation Compass 40
• LCG DAK 41-43
• Operation Brevity 41
• Operation Battleaxe 41
• Operation Crusader 41
• Malta 41 http://img196.imageshack.us/img196/6674/maltar.png map size: 80 x 56
• Gazala 1942 http://img687.imageshack.us/img687/811/gazala.png map size: 250 x 160
• Mersa El Brega 42
• El Alamein I 42
• Alam Halfa 42
• El Alamein II 42
• Landing at Casablanca - Torch 42
• The Race to Tunis - Tunesia 43 map size: 324 x 487
• Germans Kasserine Offensive - Tunesia 43
• The End in Africa - Tunesia 43

1944-45 Western Front
• Sicily 43 http://img31.imageshack.us/img31/3000/sicily.png map size: 350 x 220
• Salerno 43
• Anzio 44 http://img703.imageshack.us/img703/5848/anzio.png map size: 50 x 56
• Normandy 1944 (D-Day + 20) http://img59.imageshack.us/img59/4456/normandye.png map size: 202 x 154
• Normandy 1944 + british Coast (D-Day + 50)
• Operation Marked Garden 1944 http://img14.imageshack.us/img14/1075/marketgarden.png map size: 58 x 120
• Ardennenoffensive 44 (Battle of the Bulge) http://img849.imageshack.us/img849/3630 ... ebulge.png map size: 170 x 114

Take a look at my old Belarus map from Warzaw to Minsk and from Vilnius to the Pripjet Swamps: (500x500 Hexfields produced map with the german/polish Heereskriegskarten 1:100000)
http://img862.imageshack.us/img862/6354 ... upcent.png

Minsk: (not finished !)
http://img833.imageshack.us/img833/6011/minsk.png

Grodno: (not finished !)
http://img863.imageshack.us/img863/7176/grodno.png

Brest Litovsk: (not finished !)
http://img20.imageshack.us/img20/765/brestlitovsk.png

Vilnius: (not finished !)
http://img339.imageshack.us/img339/8193/vilnius.png

Bialystok: (not finished !)
http://img842.imageshack.us/img842/271/bialystok.png

Mogilev / Orsha / Gomel: 364 x 447
http://img24.imageshack.us/img24/21/mogilev.png

Smolensk / Yelnia: 378 x 222
http://img197.imageshack.us/img197/3049/smolensk.png

Moskau: 438 x 385
http://img860.imageshack.us/img860/5568/moskau.png

Stalingrad: 250 x 302
http://img13.imageshack.us/img13/4149/stalingrade.png

France: (Fall Gelb) 362 x 216
http://img834.imageshack.us/img834/4816/francee.png

France: (Fall Rot) 428 x 354
http://img808.imageshack.us/img808/5940/francem.png

North Africa: 784 x 224
http://img705.imageshack.us/img705/460/northafrica.png

West-Germany: 500 x 546
http://img715.imageshack.us/img715/1945/westgermany.png

and dozen others !
We must only find a good translator between my map code and your map code - than you can use all this great maps with Panzer corps !!!

H.Balck

Xitax · Post by **Xitax** » Fri Jun 17, 2011 1:45 am

As I see it big maps are going to be a bit of a problem in PC, mostly because of range related gameplay functions.

Current maps are at least 10km/hex. If you were to, say, change the range values for all units and somehow get that balanced, even then artillery probably wouldn't defend 'adjacent' units like it should as an adjacent unit on a 1 klick hex map could be in a range of a few hexes away.

Kerensky · Post by **Kerensky** » Fri Jun 17, 2011 3:22 am

Excessively large maps are capable of being made in the editor

, but we generally find that they to only appeal to a very specific crowd. So while the option to create these maps does exist for those who wish to, no map in the release version of the game is larger than... 60x60 or so.

Obsolete · Post by **Obsolete** » Fri Jun 17, 2011 6:46 am

Something really worries me about that Britt. Why are his legs as big as his waste?

Kerensky · Post by **Kerensky** » Fri Jun 17, 2011 6:58 am

Jaffa Cakes. They'll go right to your thighs.

EuroBoss · Post by **EuroBoss** » Fri Jun 17, 2011 7:05 am

Only one problem with mega huge maps like that first you need a silly amount of units and open slots then more prestige then you know what to do with.

mllange · Post by **mllange** » Fri Jun 17, 2011 2:33 pm

Well color me impressed, quite an effort of quality work. Hopefully they will be playable; reminds me of my HPS Panzer Campaign games. Kudos!

HBalck · Post by **HBalck** » Mon Jun 20, 2011 8:31 pm

Hi
Thank you for your answers - It is possible - thats good - BTW naturally with new parameters and hunderts of units.

Here are 2 of my old Division Campaigns with smaller maps.

1st - The full 1st german Tank divsion in the attack on France 1940 Code yellow + red)
http://www.matrixgames.com/forums/tm.asp?m=1824811

2nd - The full 18th german Tank divsion in the attack on Soviet union 1941 (Code Barbarossa):
http://www.matrixgames.com/forums/tm.asp?m=1824312

and some screens Multiplayer game Normandy 1944 - the full map with all units:
http://www.matrixgames.com/forums/tm.asp?m=1826533

H.Balck

Razz1 · Post by **Razz1** » Tue Jun 21, 2011 12:58 am

Those maps are pretty large but look very playable if you play three turns per day, otherwise it will take forever.

SAS · Post by **SAS** » Wed Jun 22, 2011 7:12 am

Great work!

HBalck · Post by **HBalck** » Wed Jun 22, 2011 10:55 am

Here are some screens with smaller maps with full inlcuded historical troops (Batallion-level with all headquarters).

Battle around Mlawa - Poland 1939 (Code White): The old Panzer General 2 - Chiechanow - map , but now with full historical troops and correct map !
http://img221.imageshack.us/img221/1739 ... dmlawa.png
map size: 92 x 78

Battle of the Bulge 1944 (Ardennenoffensive):
http://img849.imageshack.us/img849/3630 ... ebulge.png
map size: 170 x 114

Market Garden 1944:
http://img14.imageshack.us/img14/1075/marketgarden.png
map size: 58 x 120

Normandy1944 (D-Day + 30):
http://img59.imageshack.us/img59/4456/normandye.png
map size: 202 x 154

Bridgehead at Kanev: Also admits from old Panzer General 2 , but now with full historical troops and correct map !
http://img27.imageshack.us/img27/5337/b ... dkanev.png
map size: 108 x 58

Barbarossa - view at the 3rd tankgroup "Hoth"
http://img607.imageshack.us/img607/9492 ... sahoth.png
full Barbarossa Army group centre map size: 780 x 450

Gazala 1942 (Operation Theseus)
http://img687.imageshack.us/img687/811/gazala.png
map size: 250 x 160

H.Balck

EuroBoss · Post by **EuroBoss** » Wed Jun 22, 2011 12:20 pm

Smaller maps are you joking?

HBalck · Post by **HBalck** » Wed Jun 22, 2011 12:25 pm

No - Sorry - but the most of my maps are larger (over 400 x 400) and I can't show you in one screen. This here are some of the smaller operations doing in WWII.

H.Balck

HBalck · Post by **HBalck** » Fri Jun 24, 2011 9:19 pm

Hi
The most previews of all avaible maps are online - Take a look !

H.Balck

SAS · Post by **SAS** » Mon Jun 27, 2011 1:00 am

Are these going to be made into a campaign? That would be great!

HBalck · Post by **HBalck** » Sun Jul 17, 2011 11:35 pm

Go here:
viewtopic.php?t=26245

HBalck · Post by **HBalck** » Mon Aug 08, 2011 12:52 pm

actually list:

1939 Poland
• Battle around Mlawa map size: 92 x 78 scenario finished for PC
• LCG 1st tank division – Campaign with 18 smaller scenarios (every map smaller than 80x80)

1940 France
• Fall Gelb – Battle of France map size: 750 x 420
• Fall Gelb – The Battle of Sedan map size: 140 x 120
• Fall Gelb – The Battle of Dunkirk map size: 180 x 120
• LCG 1st tank division Campaign with 34 smaller scenarios (every map smaller than 80x80) 4th scenario – Sedan scenario finished for PC
• Sea Lion map size: 340 x 180
• Sea Lion+ (with french coast) map size: 450 x 350 map finished 50%

1941 Balkan
• Crete map size: 450 x 500
• Metaxas Line map size: 160 x 80

1941-44 Eastern Front
• Barbarossa Armygroup centre June/July 1941 map size: 650 x 500 (The queen of the maps !)
• LCG 18th tank division Campaign with 45 smaller scenarios (every map smaller than 80x80)
• Smolensk July 1941 map size: 400 x 230
• Battle of Moskau Oktobre/December 1941 map size: 440 x 387
• Sewastopol 42 map size: 120 x 100
• Kharkow 42 map size: 310 x 282
• Rzhev 42 map size: 254 x 200
• Operation Uranus Novembre/Dec 1942 map size: 252 x 304
• Operation Wintergewitter 1943 map size: 252 x 304
• Battle of Kursk 43 map size: 380 x 301
• Mius 1943 map size: 100 x 120
• Kharkow 43 map size: 310 x 340
• Bridgehead at Kanev 1943 map size: 108 x 58
• Korsun 1944 map size: 212 x 224
• Minsk 1944 map size: 366 x 450
• Operation Konrad I-III (Budapest 45) map size: 354 x 246
• Last stand in Prussia 45 map size: 400 x 350
• Battle for Berlin map size: 260 x 300

1941-43 North Africa
• Operation Compass 40 map size:
• LCG DAK 41-43 map size: Campaign with 15-18 scenarios (all NA battles together for the core units DAK)
• Operation Brevity 41 map size:
• Operation Battleaxe 41 map size: 78 x 102
• Operation Crusader 41 map size: 168 x 112
• Malta 41 map size: 80 x 56
• Gazala 1942 map size: 250 x 160
• Mersa Matruh 42 map size: 164 x 86
• El Alamein I 42 map size: 238 x 112
• Alam Halfa 42 map size: 238 x 112
• El Alamein II 42 map size: 238 x 112
• Tripoli 42 map size: 120 x 60
• Landing at Casablanca - Torch 42 map size: 232 x 242
• Tunesia 43 map size: 324 x 487
• Full NA MP map: map size: 786 x 226

1944-45 Western Front
• Sicily 43 map size: 350 x 220
• Salerno 43 map size: 110 x 92
• Anzio 44 map size: 50 x 56
• Normandy 1944 - D-Day +5 map size: 204 x 156 scenario finished for PC
• Normandy 1944 + british Coast - D-Day +8 map size: 241 x 279 scenario finished for PC
• Operation Marked Garden 1944 map size: 58 x 120 next possible !
• Battle of the Bulge 1944 map size: 172 x 116 next possible !
• Last stand in the west map size: 500 x 546

H.Balck

Linai · Post by **Linai** » Wed Aug 24, 2011 10:51 pm

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

HBalck · Post by **HBalck** » Wed Aug 24, 2011 11:04 pm

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

Thank you ! Yes - he is my name patron since 1995. My grandfather served under his command of the 1st rifle regiment in the western Campaign 1940.

H.Balck

Linai · Post by **Linai** » Wed Aug 24, 2011 11:43 pm

"Pleasure boating on the Meuse is forbidden!"

Big maps mod for Panzercorps

Big maps mod for Panzercorps

Color me impressed