All the planes in MAW can dynamically reflect light in real time. A natural skin in the desert will give you a sunburn right through the monitor.

http://www.avhistory.org/movies/p51ref.avi

http://www.avhistory.org/movies/p51ref2.avi

BEAR - AvHistory
http://www.avhistory.org
http://www.medairwar.com

Looking great Bear!!

Only 100 planes? What are we supposed to do with the other hour of our life that will be left once we've exhausted those??


The Jedi Master

Have a beer & wait for Phase 2

Or you can kick back & watch the ground war go by. Mathias took some shots of a Tommy convoy on the wrong side of an Axis artillery barrage

I'm getting H&D2 N Africa flashbacks!!!


The Jedi Master

WOW

Payback

WOW, great shot inded!

I just hope those Panthers are only there because this are only preview screenshots since if I'm not mistaken the Panthers didn't saw combat in Nothern Africa (or at least in any considerable numbers).

I liked very much that Ju-52 seaplane version even because I have a 1/72 model of it (the seaplane version) and it be cool to fly that thing!

The tanks are place holders from a working test of keeping the vehicles moving after one gets hit.

So far the principal Axis vehicles completed are:

2cm Flak 38 (single barrel)
pak38 at gun
Panzer 3j and h
Panzer Ib
VW typ87
Panzer II
Radio truck
Mg 34 unit
PzKpfw IV Ausf F1/2

Lancia truck
Breda 47mm at gun
Breda 20mm aa gun
M-11/39
M-13/40
S-75/18
L-6/40
Fiat Spa APC
Fiat Spa truck (2 versions)

The VW is player drivable so you can get a view of the war from ground level.

BTW I mentioned earlier that the Italians will be heavily represented in Phase I & here are a few other aircraft pretty much ready to go.

Beautiful!

Jason

LOL! Driving a VW! Awesome!


The Jedi Master

Thanks for the info Bear!
By the way, what the hell is that Italian aircraft? (I never saw that one before, I guess)

You will also get to drive around with the Allies long range desert patrols.



Truck has a few animations thrown in.

The planes are Caproni Ca-311 RPB1 & Ca-313 RPB1 & are player flyable.

Cool

WowWee!!!

unbeevable!

By the way, what kind of campaign will MAW have?
Will it be the same or similar as the CFS3 stock one or will it be something new like in OFF?

I'd think it would use the CFS3 one as the Med's situation was more akin to the Western Front WWII than Western Front WWI.


The Jedi Master

Regarding the land war part, yes the CFS3 campaign engine could do a very good job modeling a North Africa scenario (but have my doubts about the Italian front) but the main problem (IMO) is the Naval war! The CFS3 campaign engine is unfortunaly a crap in terms of modeling a naval war (with all of those absurd numbers of ships displaced in a "frontline" like they were ground troops, not to mention the absurd number of Axis ships).
So I hope that the MAW team came with a "cure" for this (if they choose the CFS3 campaign engine) or that they'll go towards a similar direction as the OFF team did which is creating a completly new campaign engine.
This is the main reason why I made that previous question.

Remember the front line in Africa was very fluid & hard for CFS to model.

So we are testing a number of ways to best present the campaigns. Plural is intended.

B-17F

We are not going to say much of anything specific about then right now but the bottom line is they will be transparent to the user, no non-standard interface is being used.



You will not have to do anything special to get into them when starting or setting up the game, just click & go.



I also expect historical missions sets will be available.