How awesome would a map be based on that movie? It could, instead of America vs. Vietnam, be US Army vs. China.

We could certainly incorporate many of the currently-existing assets into such a map. The U.S. and Chinese bases could be modeled off the ones shown in the movie.



Map Name: La Drang


In the movie, there were six Transport Hueys that were vital for inserting and extracting troops, wounded, supplies, et cetera. The only safe place for them to land was a cleared Landing Zone in the center of the map. I would assume that it would be impossible to get vehicles from the U.S. Main to the rest of the battlefield, therefore the Transport Hueys would play a massively important role in troop transport/supplies. There would be quite a few other flat areas where a chopper can land, but (most of) the map would be densely packed with forest and rocky terrain unsuitable to land on.

Therefore, there would probably need to be two main LZs which were also flags on either side of a mountain/hill system. The entire map would be crisscrossed by Chinese emplacements and tunnels (left over from the Vietnam War) as well as a central command center somewhere on the north side of the mountain chain, buried deep inside tunnels and heavily fortified.

So the assets would be as follows:

US Army:
x6(x4?) Transport Hueys
x1(x2?) Close Air Support Huey with Miniguns/Hydras (Also featured in the movie)
Artillery

Chinese:
x3 Logistics Trucks
x3 Transport Trucks
x4 FAVs
x1 Chinese APC (not sure what these are called, exactly)
Artillery

x2 Stationary AA emplacements in high points around the map
Tunnel system connecting Chinese Main to various key points around the map, w/ the US LZs out in front, simulating a front line.


Suggested Layout of Map (Sorry for the crudeness of the drawing..):


As I stated most of the map would be dense forest. The little red circles are easy Huey LZs. The main road (blue) will be slightly difficult to land on, but possible. The area between the mountain (grey) and the LZs (large red circles) would be thin, tall forest w/ dead trees or trees knocked over by the inital artillery blast used to clear the LZs, leaving clear firing points for Machine Guns/sniper emplacements from the main fortified areas (solid purple)

Yellow circles represent stationary AAs.

I envision a TON of Machine Gun fire coming from all sides towards the LZs, which are in slight depressions so there is some hilly cover around them, large rocks, and busted, fallen trees. So the Hueys would be used a LOT as there would be a LOT of respawning at main as rallies would be overrun constantly (to keep the hueys important to the outcome of the game).. therefore somewhere around 450-500 tickets (Yes, huge, but there'd be huge death counts for the U.S. side at the very beginning, though they'd definitely catch up later in the game once they got a safe spawn point or two down).


The americans would just HAVE to have Fixed Bayonets.. As seen here. + CAS Huey in action: [media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZPr9g3EVz-o&feature=related[/media]

This is the most complete video I could find viewing the U.S. Main & top of the jungle. 1:37 would be the village..:
[media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=00pOrjzMASA&feature=related[/media]

So.. now I just need to learn how to make maps.


- Star