Red River Campaign Pics!

[2nd Texas Infantry]

Well since I have the time, I am going to do not only Pleasant Hill, but Mansfield, and Yellow Bayou as an entire campaign (possibly Jenkins' Ferry aswell). Since we need to wait for Norb's new patch to release our maps (his patch will help the game exponentially) I am working hard to do a whole campaign of Trans-Mississippi battles from April - May 1864. Zeke is doing some OOB work and Reb Bugler is even doing a couple of flags. The quality of these maps will be on par if not surpass the stock maps. All maps were researched thoroughly and use USGS heightfields of the actual battles. Here are a few pics from Mansfield (Sabine Crossroads) April 8th 1864. See my previous post for Pleasant Hill. Enjoy.

[Davinci]

2ndTexas , excellent pictures, and I really do like the new objects that you converted.

It appears that the fences could be raised a bit higher, at least above the waist level, or is this how they really looked back then.

This makes number three; pretty soon you will have a six-pack-map-set!

davinci

[2nd Texas Infantry]

2ndTexas , excellent pictures, and I really do like the new objects that you converted.

It appears that the fences could be raised a bit higher, at least above the waist level, or is this how they really looked back then.

This makes number three; pretty soon you will have a six-pack-map-set!

davinci

That just might be the angle of the pictures. They are scaled to 3.50. They should be the appropriate height. I worked on a living history farm (1820's - 1840's) in my 20's and its a lot easier to make em for this game than splitting them with a sledge hammer and wedges (just like they did). Remember, these fences were made to keep animals out, not in. That concept wasn't created until barbed wire (1870's +). Homesteads and crops were fenced in, not pastures. They should be a waist to chest high to be accurate. Anything that would keep a cow out. Deer and Coons are too smart, thats what a shotgun is for!

[CoB4thTEXAS]

Look'n good 2nd Texas Infantry, i sure do like that big narley tree growing at and angle ln picture no.4.

*S*

[Chamberlain]

Outstanding 2nd Texas Infantry !!!

Awesome Job !!



Chamberlain

[Marching Thru Georgia]

That's a very classy looking map. Well done! Did corrugated roofs exist back then? I thought I remember reading somewhere that rolled steel only became available in the late 19th century. They might have been made of tin, in which case they wouldn't rust. Just an unimportant trivial detail. Great job.

[Petrus58]

That's a very classy looking map. Well done! Did corrugated roofs exist back then? I thought I remember reading somewhere that rolled steel only became available in the late 19th century. They might have been made of tin, in which case they wouldn't rust. Just an unimportant trivial detail. Great job.

Although I would normally be very cautious about using Wikipedia as a source, in this instance it seems reasonably safe, and it says that it was invented in Britain in the 1820s, and quickly exported around the world - including the US. So I guess the answer is that corrugated roofs are ok!

[CoB4thTEXAS]

It's probly old Republic of Texas courrugated then, you think. B)

[Jack ONeill]

BTW,

Did I mention this is an AWESOME map? :woohoo:

Jack B)

[Chris G.]

Damn fine work 2TX.