Wish for the Strait of Hormuz

[BlackLion213]

Of the many things coming to DCS, I am most excited about the inbound USN aircraft (Tomcat and Hornet) with the Strait of Hormuz map.

 

I wanted to make a request for consideration that would expand some operational opportunities for the map. Currently, there are few opportunities for open ocean operations in DCS. The Black Sea has a very large area of water (and a huge low detail area that includes the entire Black Sea and that I am thankful for), but is not an area that US CV's can legally operate (barring exceptional circumstances) or would wish to commonly enter.

 

The Northern Arabian Sea was an area that the USN spent a lot of time. The current chart map posted on the Battle Simulator (I realize that the actual map may be much smaller, even with the low detail area) offers a really promising scope for CV operations.

 

 

However, including part of the Northern Arabian Sea would really open up some additional opportunities to simulate some of the routine carrier ops in addition to SoH combat ops or patrols. CVBGs operating in the region would often move in and out of the Gulf of Oman and operating east of Masirah was very common. The coastline could be very low detail (like the current Black Sea map) and still serve the player very well.

 

Also, I was very excited to see Southern England added to the Normandy map as a less detailed, but still excellent looking area. A similar opportunity would exist with Masirah island - it was a common divert base for carriers operating in the region and frequently hosted US units stationed in the region. The island is pretty sparse and would be a great place for an airfield surrounded by some detail (few neighborhoods and small infrastructure, etc), but would still work well with a medium or low detail shoreline 10 nm away. It would not seem low detail if created this way, like Southern England. Also, because it is a isolated island, it would lessen the feature creep of modeling more of the eastern Omani coast.

 

This would require a large low detail area off Oman, that is even larger than what is depicted in the chart map, but would also make the map a truly flexible CV play ground. Allowing for things like intercepts of patrolling Soviet Bears and shadowing vessels, which is not so likely in the Gulf of Oman. The island may be to far south or involve too much work, but I figure it's worth a mention.

 

In any case, I will truly enjoy this coming map and thank you for the opportunity to post suggestions.

 

-Nick

[frodrigues2016]

This should be next to normandy.:thumbup::pilotfly:

[WRAITH]

What is the latest news on Strait of Hormuz MAP and what are the latest pics or video if any?

 

I can't be bothered google searching Forum in the last month I gone mad digging forums and Googling.

 

Please share so info thanks..................... :thumbup: