Cold War: Chad

[Arecibo]

So I’m guessing by now you’ve all seen the incredible 1980s Mirage low level flying footage filmed in Chad on YouTube: 

I was thinking this would make an excellent map, with all the Cold War jets in the region during Operation Épervier. I know that it’s another ‘sand map’, but I think the unique landscape would bring a different vibe to the table. I mean just look at those mountains!

Anyway, just my thoughts. Be interested to hear others views. 

Edited April 30 by Arecibo

[MiG21bisFishbedL]

Insta-buy for me.

[Arecibo]

Other jets involved in the conflict: 

MiG-23, Su-22, Mirage 5 and Sepecat Jaguar (according to ChatGPT)

Edited April 29 by Arecibo

[Ironhand]

16 hours ago, Arecibo said:

…I know that it’s another ‘sand map’, but I think the unique landscape would bring a different vibe to the table. I mean just look at those mountains!

Unfortunately, what you’d get is another sand map without those very distinctive terrain features.

[Arecibo]

I don’t know why you wouldn’t put them in. They’d be a focus, surely? In the same way that Ugra put all that detail into all the cities in the Germany map, you could do the same for all the sand sculpted pillars and mountains. I doubt polycount would be an issue.

Edited April 29 by Arecibo

[Ironhand]

12 hours ago, Arecibo said:

I don’t know why you wouldn’t put them in. They’d be a focus, surely? In the same way that Ugra put all that detail into all the cities in the Germany map, you could do the same for all the sand sculpted pillars and mountains. I doubt polycount would be an issue.

Perhaps, that way, you could make it work. It’s just not something that could be done as terrain.

[Dragon1-1]

The method DCS uses for terrain sucks at making good looking mountains. You could get away with hand-modeled rocks as objects, but you probably couldn't do a whole mountain range that way without killing performance. Cold War Germany shows that it's quite possible to do a lot of detailed objects, but the sheer scale of the mountains would probably be an issue.

[Bremspropeller]

Chad would be nice, but given the lack of action for most of the timeframe of Épervier, a South African Bush War map would make more sense IMHO.

[Lace]

The problem with this map is that with the exception of some Gazelles, most air assets were based thousands of miles away from the action.  The map would be huuuge.

I would still buy it though, and have made several Épervier/Ouadi Doum missions using Syria or NTTR as stand-ins.