Antietam Rocks

[Amish John]

Yeah, we know the game "rocks", but this question has to do with the other kind of rocks. You know, those big hard gray things.

There seems to be quite a number of very large rock formations on the map. These rocks appear to range from the size of a car to the size of a small house. Not being as familiar with the Antietam battlefield as I am with the Gettysburg battlefield, I was wondering if these large rock formations reflect large rock formations actually on the battlefield?

Using Bing Maps to look in the Cornfield area, I don't see anything resembling this. I haven't checked other areas. If the intent is to break up the terrain and give it a bit of character, I'd suggest a few more moderate size rocks and getting rid of these Devil's Den size boulders.

This same question could be extended to the Gettysburg maps.

Just curious as to the rationale behind this terrain feature.

[RebBugler]

Guess they don't look like Amish haystacks, but that's what they are, probably North Carolina haystacks ...if that's what you're referring to.

[Amish John]

Reb, How do you get "haystacks" from my "rocks" question? :blink:

No, I was not referring to haystacks, but the huge rocks.

[louie raider]

AJ, the rocks placed were the mid- to small-sized rocks from the Gettysburg maps. These were placed referencing the Carmen map series, where there are plenty of outcroppings marked on his maps. I don't believe i'm at liberty to estimate how much of these outcroppings have been removed/buried/otherwise, i can only go by what my reference map shows.

And as far as boulder size goes, along with the Gettysburg maps there isn't enough time in the day to place every single man-sized boulder where it should be, so a larger abstraction needs to suffice - both for gameplay and for the map-maker's sanity. I apologize if the huge boulders are ruining your gameplay immersion, but it's the only way we can feasibly get the 'rocky' look without having to resort to FPS-sucking sprites that populate LRT at the moment. while that tactic works there, on a 5-mi map it would not be a good thing IMO.

[Amish John]

AJ, the rocks placed were the mid- to small-sized rocks from the Gettysburg maps. These were placed referencing the Carmen map series, where there are plenty of outcroppings marked on his maps. I don't believe i'm at liberty to estimate how much of these outcroppings have been removed/buried/otherwise, i can only go by what my reference map shows.

And as far as boulder size goes, along with the Gettysburg maps there isn't enough time in the day to place every single man-sized boulder where it should be, so a larger abstraction needs to suffice - both for gameplay and for the map-maker's sanity. I apologize if the huge boulders are ruining your gameplay immersion, but it's the only way we can feasibly get the 'rocky' look without having to resort to FPS-sucking sprites that populate LRT at the moment. while that tactic works there, on a 5-mi map it would not be a good thing IMO.

Don't get me wrong. I wasn't complaining. I was just curious if there was some rhyme or reason for the size and placement of them and it sounds like there was.