Map required: Baltic Sea

[C_W_S]

We are getting spoilt for choice regarding maps now, with new locations coming thick and fast.  However, I feel that the Baltic Sea has been too long neglected!  We have plenty of appropriate aircraft and (above all) Soviet-era smaller ships to populate such a map.  Geopolitically, it's certainly a hot spot - both during the cold war and now.  It would be a really interesting place especially for the Viggen, where it would be able to carry out the very missions which it was designed to perform.  Also, would make for a beautiful map if the Swedish and Åland/SW Finland archipelagos could be included.  Something like this:

The major airbases of Ronneby, Linköping, Uppsala and Kaliningrad are on this map, the naval bases of Karlskrona, Berga and Kaliningrad and plenty of the purpose-built stretches of public highway in Sweden which the Viggen so loves to land on

Please, please, please Development Team, take note!!!  

Edited May 5, 2022 by C_W_S

[Mike Force Team]

I agree that a Baltic Sea map would be a great addition to the DCS maps.  Along with the Viggens, the F/A-18s would enjoy both landing on runways as well as aircraft carriers.

MFT

[C_W_S]

This really has the potential to be the next big map in DCS.  It covers a very large area, but a lot of it is water which is great for carrier ops (even though it's unrealistic that a US carrier group would ever enter such a confined space...) and not any major urban areas at all.  Stockholm is not very big in comparison to London or a continental capital city...

It's reasonably flat compared to the Caucasus, but that didn't stop the Viggen pilots of old from using terrain masking tactics!  Child's play, compared to zooming out over the sea at 10m in search of Soviet ships...

[Rmnsvn]

Seeing Baltic states in DCS would be great. There was/are plenty of airfields built during Cold War 

Edited May 29, 2022 by Rmnsvn

[YoYo]

On 5/5/2022 at 2:24 PM, C_W_S said:

We are getting spoilt for choice regarding maps now, with new locations coming thick and fast.  However, I feel that the Baltic Sea has been too long neglected!  We have plenty of appropriate aircraft and (above all) Soviet-era smaller ships to populate such a map.  Geopolitically, it's certainly a hot spot - both during the cold war and now.  It would be a really interesting place especially for the Viggen, where it would be able to carry out the very missions which it was designed to perform.  Also, would make for a beautiful map if the Swedish and Åland/SW Finland archipelagos could be included.  Something like this:

The major airbases of Ronneby, Linköping, Uppsala and Kaliningrad are on this map, the naval bases of Karlskrona, Berga and Kaliningrad and plenty of the purpose-built stretches of public highway in Sweden which the Viggen so loves to land on

Please, please, please Development Team, take note!!!  

 

Ask Heatblur they once had such an idea (especially during the release of Viggen) , unfortunately, maps for DCS appear very rarely. It is a very long process, it takes several years from the idea. Now it will be Afghanistan, maybe 2H of 2023, I guess.

Edited May 26, 2022 by YoYo

[Baco]

Your depiction is a bit too large but I fully agree a Gotland-Kalininingard area map would be Amazing.

[upyr1]

I'd love to have  a WWII version of this map, I think it would be good for some East front scenarios 

[Baltic Dude]

On 5/5/2022 at 4:24 AM, C_W_S said:

We are getting spoilt for choice regarding maps now, with new locations coming thick and fast.  However, I feel that the Baltic Sea has been too long neglected!  We have plenty of appropriate aircraft and (above all) Soviet-era smaller ships to populate such a map.  Geopolitically, it's certainly a hot spot - both during the cold war and now.  It would be a really interesting place especially for the Viggen, where it would be able to carry out the very missions which it was designed to perform.  Also, would make for a beautiful map if the Swedish and Åland/SW Finland archipelagos could be included.  Something like this:

The major airbases of Ronneby, Linköping, Uppsala and Kaliningrad are on this map, the naval bases of Karlskrona, Berga and Kaliningrad and plenty of the purpose-built stretches of public highway in Sweden which the Viggen so loves to land on

Please, please, please Development Team, take note!!!  

 

+1

[Mike Force Team]

@Baltic Dude I, too, would like a Baltic Map.

Mike Force Team

[Alicatt]

Our local airbase in Belgium routinely fly patrols over the Baltic with their F-16 aircraft, so that's another DCS aircraft that would be in the right location

[Gunfreak]

Ideally there would be one map covering all of the Nordics and Baltics.

[BalticDude]

I like it. Hope we get it one day.

[jaguara5]

+1 for the Baltic Sea, including the Marineflieger AFB in Northern Germany. Perfect map to fly anti ship missions with the Tornado 

 

[C_W_S]

On 10/11/2022 at 10:34 AM, jaguara5 said:

+1 for the Baltic Sea, including the Marineflieger AFB in Northern Germany. Perfect map to fly anti ship missions with the Tornado 

 

For sure!

[Padonis]

I think that a map of the Baltic Sea with the countries adjacent to it would be very successful. Privately, I'm tired of more maps with a cat litter box. Many DCS customers come from this region.

[MAXsenna]

Hopefully ORBX will announce this after the Kola release, which would be the next natural next step. 

Cheers!