Scourge of War Boards

I wanted to simply say a big thank you to the team for the impressive Salem Church map which I'm finding easily the most interesting and varied map of those issued with the new battle.

Your texturing and building modelling techniques have come on in leaps and bounds. I wanted to highlight a few models.

1) This shot up timber house. Its fantastic. The tones of the colours is exactly right, the shutters and windows sit perfectly with the timber walls texture and how did you get the minie bullet holes in it? Were you working from original photos and then colouring them? Also - such a small simple addition but how much extra it adds to the overall game immersion - this house has overhanging eaves and barge boards. These small details add so much to the plain box-like structures that you provided with the earlier games.



2) Another great set of textures on this house, and again looking beaten up with musket ball holes. What happened though to the railings on the end of the upper verandah?



3) This impressive red brick mansion with its portico frontage must be famous but being a Brit, I know nothing about it. It must have been the property of a very rich person, maybe a plantation owner or an entrepreneur. What's it's history please?



4) I'm impressed with the earthworks you've designed for this map. Brilliant. I presume they do give a defensive bonus in comvbat?



5 and 6) Another cool house with excellent texturing.





7) This house is fantastic. It reminds me of English Victorian railway stations. On the map it seems to be named "Idlewake" although the name is a bit hard to read. Any history on this building please?

Yeah the buildings have gotten better and better with each release. I didn't think the buildings could get better than Antietam, but Loui proved us all wrong with Chancellorsville.

#3 is Brompton aka Marye House, currently the residence of the President of the University of Mary Washington.

#7 is Idlewild mansion which burned in 2003. More info on Idlewild

Yeah the buildings have gotten better and better with each release. I didn't think the buildings could get better than Antietam, but Loui proved us all wrong with Chancellorsville.

And not just the buildings. IMHO the Salem Church map is the best yet produced. A visual delight, and also a great variety of terain. Thanks to all involved.

Martin

A tragedy about Idlewild. A great shame a battlefield preservation group didn't buy it or promote it for preservation by a heritage group.

Does anyone have any good links to places like Marye House and other significant battlefield structures in the area?

Marye's House/Brompton:

During the Battle of Fredericksburg, December 13, 1862, the famed Washington Artillery of New Orleans was posted around the Marye House, here on Marye's Heights. Colonel J.B. Walton, the commanding officer, had his headquarters in the house.

The commander of the Fredericksburg Artillery, Edward A. Marye, lived in his family's house before the war.This unit, and Alexander's Reserve Battalion, which relieved it during the afternoon, helped hurl back seven Federal charges.

His battery was posted four miles south of this position during the battle. During the Wilderness and Spotsylvania operations of May 1864, the Marye House serves as a Federal Hospital, and the wounded lay outside under the trees, one of which still stands.

Known locally then and now as Brompton, the house now serves as the home for the president of Mary Washington College.

Other significant battlefield structures:

Innis House - This is the shot up timber house you have a screenshot of above.

There's some great info and pics at HMDB.

http://www.hmdb.org/marker.asp?marker=8569

Stephens House - This house is a short distance away from the Innis house. Unlike the Innis house, it no longer stands. More great info at HMDB:

http://www.hmdb.org/Marker.asp?Marker=8550

Fantastic stuff, thanks very much.