Fulda Gap

[twistking]

32 minutes ago, Bremspropeller said:

I'm hoping it covers Germany entirely, as the most beautiful airfields (landscape-wise) are in the southern west and southwest. The airfields in southern Bavaria are also quite scenic. If that area is covered, some franch airbases in the Rhine valley should also make it (e.g. Colmar and Strasbourg, maybe even Metz and Nancy).

For the eastern dimension, I hope it at least covers the Oder river. That in turn also covers parts of Czechia and maybe northern Austria. The pics seen so far suggest that the map at least extends to the german coast of the Baltic Sea.

Really looking forward to the map reveal.

 

That would be the most ambitious DCS map to date. Not by dimensions perhaps, but surely by population centers covered.
I agree that southern Germany is way more interesting for flying from a purely scenic point of view. Having the map cover the Baltic coast AND the alps would be absolutely fantastic, but perhaps too good to be true... I will be happy already if the Fulda AO is covered with enough area around it to not accidentally stumble over the map edge in a fast jet...

Edited January 18 by twistking

[Bremspropeller]

Yeah, I agree it would be very ambitious, but having the other maps with large population centers and some new tech gives me hope there'll be some more advances into that direction. Plus in order to be useful for any jets, the maps would have to extend west by quite a bit to reach any type of jet airfield.

If you take this map as a reference (posted on the prior page), there'd be hardly any jet airbase in the west covered by it's extent (apart from FRA, HAJ, Wunstorf - none of which are full time fast jet air bases, with maybe the exception of Gütersloh, which could be right on the western edge) and a hand full of jet bases in the east:

For info:

The demonstrated (by screenshot) northern boundary is at least as far north as the location of the second r in "North Front".

For info 2:
With the Sinai map, we're already covering a very large amount of virtual population. The entire population of Egypt is about 110 million people, most of which are living in the depicted areas - subtracting Luxor and Assuan, but there's population centers northeast of Sinial as well, which more than adjusts for that loss: Population sizes of Israel (10milllion) and Gaza+Westbank (~5 million) aren't that small either.

Edited January 18 by Bremspropeller

[twistking]

24 minutes ago, Bremspropeller said:

If you take this map as a reference (posted on the prior page), there'd be hardly any jet airbase in the west covered by it's extent (apart from FRA, HAJ, Wunstorf - none of which are full time fast jet air bases, with maybe the exception of Gütersloh, which could be right on the western edge) and a hand full of jet bases in the east:

Good point regarding the jet airbases. Did not really think of that.
Maybe it would be acceptable to cut the "deep" Western part at least, putting the Western edge at Bremen, Bielefeld, Koblenz, Mannheim... Of course airbases near that imagined line would need further "wiggle room" of detailed area to their west.
I'm from the deep West myself, but i think it would offer the least for a historic cold war DCS map (apart from some important airbases and the then capital of Bonn).
Baltic coast, DDR/GDR and the alps in one map though:

Edited January 18 by twistking

[twistking]

In the recent Q&A Wags called the map "Cold War Germany" by the way and it was implied that it's not done by ED. Ugra seems more and more likely...

[Tom Kazansky]

1 hour ago, twistking said:

In the recent Q&A Wags called the map "Cold War Germany" by the way and it was implied that it's not done by ED. Ugra seems more and more likely...

it is Ugra Media: