random maps broken for Afghanistan ?

[Arralen]

I tried generating some battles/maps for Germany vs. Mujahedin in 2012, and every time the maps came out as totally flat, with an width-1 "wall" around features like fields etc.

Germany vs. Belgium in 2002 and 2012 worked fine, USA vs. Russia in desert worked fine .. everything I tried worked, but not the Afghanistan maps.

Can anyone confirm?

[Mobhack]

Originally Posted by Arralen

I tried generating some battles/maps for Germany vs. Mujahedin in 2012, and every time the maps came out as totally flat, with an width-1 "wall" around features like fields etc.

Germany vs. Belgium in 2002 and 2012 worked fine, USA vs. Russia in desert worked fine .. everything I tried worked, but not the Afghanistan maps.

Can anyone confirm?

Did the message say Afghanistan (Green Zone) by any chance? - that is the area of cultivation around/near rivers. Field walls are bunded in the GZ. There is urbanisation. Not a bug at all. An intended feature.

Search on "sangin afghanistan" in google earth - see the strips of green along the rivers in the middle of the outlying desert. That is the farmed green zone. (This Google Earth link may or may not work - since it seems to embed the firefox client info)
http://maps.google.co.uk/maps?q=sang...54324&t=h&z=13

(The term "Green Zone" in Baghdad is entirely different - it is the palaces area. http://www.globalsecurity.org/milita...green-zone.htm)


Set up GE vs MUJ and the desired date for your random battle.

On deployment, go to "view map" and then press "Redraw default map" (or the backslash key ('/'))a few times to see the Afghanistan variations. There are several, with some rarer.


Cheers
Andy

[DRG]

There is no "bug" that's what supposed to appear. If you click on the view map button and click on the ' / ' key the game will give you other map selections but " green zone" will be one of them

Don

[Arralen]

Originally Posted by Mobhack

Did the message say Afghanistan (Green Zone) by any chance?

It did - but not every time. Sometimes it was just "Afghanistan" ... yet:

Originally Posted by Arralen

Can anyone confirm?

Even I can't - restarted SPMBT, and now everything seems fine, in fact, "Green Zone" seems to appear very rarely, and the other locations (Afghanistan, Afghanistan (town)) look quite ok ?!
I got 3 times "standard" maps which looked very similar to each other(3 big hills), but that might have been my usual bad luck ...

Sorry for starting a ... hmm .. whatever