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07-17-2003, 11:06 PM
After spending the past couple of months battling my way across the Crimean penninsula, I decided to do a little look ahead and decide where to go next. Taking a cue from a post by Lexx a while back I decided to look around on the Kuban(SP) map.
I had flown a couple missions in the region from the campaign in the original IL2 but had never really flown over much of it. I plopped myself down in a 262 in the lower right hand corner of the map and cruised around a while. Once I had gotten a good look at the mountain region I decided to fly West and shoot a landing at the paved airstrip at either Kerch or the one across the straight from Kerch that I was familiar with from the Crimean map.
Much to my surprise things there were quite different. The strip across the straight from Kerch was grass instead of paved and the the airfield at Kerch was not only grass but North-East of the city and the paved one that was West of the city in the Crimean map isn't even there. Also the city of Kerch itself was much smaller and arranged differently.
I can only assume the maps were made from originals that were from different time periods or made by different programmers that didn't compare notes.
I had flown a couple missions in the region from the campaign in the original IL2 but had never really flown over much of it. I plopped myself down in a 262 in the lower right hand corner of the map and cruised around a while. Once I had gotten a good look at the mountain region I decided to fly West and shoot a landing at the paved airstrip at either Kerch or the one across the straight from Kerch that I was familiar with from the Crimean map.
Much to my surprise things there were quite different. The strip across the straight from Kerch was grass instead of paved and the the airfield at Kerch was not only grass but North-East of the city and the paved one that was West of the city in the Crimean map isn't even there. Also the city of Kerch itself was much smaller and arranged differently.
I can only assume the maps were made from originals that were from different time periods or made by different programmers that didn't compare notes.