I haven't made a map myself, but it seems like most of the gameplay is determined by terrain, so take your time on this part. It looks like the basic dynamic will be determined by the "multiple bowls" structure of the terrain--long range sharpshooters will run for the hills, and smgers will run around the flat parts. Is that the plan?
Indeed, I want to focus the riflemen, marksmen for the hills and windows of the buildings in the village, MG's would be support and either take up a hill looking down at their targets, or in a number of crossfire locations by roads via bushes and other planned debris.
Assaults, Engineers, Commanders, and most of the Riflemen on the German side will probably be taking the roadways behind most of the hills to avoid long rang shots at them, and use trees and bushes for their approach to the Bridges. German MG's would take up the central hill to lay down suppression at either Bridge 1 or 2 when needed, the Commander for the Russians would most likely take up the larger building past bridge 1 for arty support (as well as protection) and the German Commander would take up the central hill between B1 and 2 where I'll have a forward command post with radio and ammo supply so he can do the same for his team.
Tanks and transports would most likely be restricted to the roads, but would still have a wide angle of attack.
Anti Tank Classes would use their own discretion as to whether hills or buildings would be a good vantage point, or if they want to ambush HT's and Tanks as they cross the bridges by hiding around the corner and having a low angle to the armour and being very close for penetration.
If I can figure it out, I'll make sure this map has bot way points and if they're not ordered to do anything, I'll see if it is possible to assign each class to take up certain spots of the map to put up a good fight.....
As an example, I'd probably make the MG, AT and Marksman bots camp hills for support, and have pretty much every other class attack.... though I don't know how you'd make a bot blow up a road block.
I think that if I were designing that terrain, I'd have an overwhelming urge to put a high sniper post behind and above the initial german spawn so that someone picking the german sniper role could waste the entire round trying to make 1km sniper shots while the rest of the players actually were productive.
Well the central hill with the command post is kind of what I was gearing that for. Once the bridges and village are secured, the marksman could remain there and cover a good distance. If you look back on the image in Post #32, the central hill should have a clear view all the way through Village all the way down towards the last road blocks... all the way on the other side of the map, but won't have a very good vantage point of the Farm or the Train Station...... but by that time, they can move up to the hill next to the village which the Germans would occupy and pretty well cover everything.
Plus, if things go as planned, it will be night time and there will be a level of snow fall to reduce visible distance..... but I'll play around with settings so you can still see a good distance and isn't too difficult for marksman and riflemen.
I was thinking of blizzard conditions, but that probably wouldn't be too fun for people wanting to shoot long distances, so it'll probably be just a light flurry.
