Antonius
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From: Saint Arnoult en Yvelines FRANCE
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Originally posted by Redleg:
Tell me more about a "typical" small town layout and the size of the fields surrounded by stone walls.... thinking of SPWAW, of course.
I would certainly appreciate it. It is tough sometimes having to rely upon photos, etc.
There are as many "typical" lay-outs as there are regions and lanscapes in Europe, which is quite a lot ! So I'll restrict my-self to those within 100 miles of Paris I know well enough to imagine how they were before the post-WWII demographic and urban expansions.
The older towns were often founded back in the Middle Ages or Roman Empire. They have a "historic" medieval center with a church/cathedral, market place (50 to 100 meters wide), sometimes a castle (in more or less good shape...), some remnants of old fortifications (part of wall, a tower, a gate) and most usually some peripherical street where once those fortifications stood. In that part of the town the houses are built in big clusters along narrow roads - which nowadays usually are one-way streets ![]("smile.gif")
Those towns would usually have expanded along the 3 to 6 roads linking it to other towns. If those expansions are themselves old, they have had time to develop into dense urban areas too, again with narrow streets and clustered houses with no separation between them and no gardens.
The most recent expansions lie along the outgoing roads. There you often see quite a few bigger houses, built in the 19th/early 20th century.
Other towns/villages are middle ages hamlets/roman hamlets having slowly grown over the centuries. Here you get a "main street", again with clustered houses, and often one big estate (often a manoir or a castle) at one end, a church in the middle with a grave-yard nearby, a few roads leading to the fields...
But as I said above, this i only "typical" of the region where I live and even here you find many other configurations... What will however hold true everywhere in Europe is that each town has plenty of history and none has a "clean" lay-out.
The best I can do is to open the editor and draw a couple of different real towns I know.
The stone walls of farms surround only the farm buildings not the fields. They would not be bigger that 1 spwaw hex. By the way the fields are divided into many small lots of a few hectares each (and as small as less than a half hectare). Some of these lots are woods. There is usually no clear separation between the lots but sometimes there is a line of trees (wind breakers) or a dirt road.
BTW major roads are often tree-lined. I have been told the Germans planted a lot of these trees to provide cover against air attacks...
Much has changed since WWII: towns & villages have grown, the fields have been rationalized, roads have been straightened. Recent photos can thus be quite misleading - and old aerial photos and maps are hard to find !
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Of course, since I don't expect there will be another version of SP done, I doubt we'll see those new terrain types (nor the possibility of splitting single men off to be scouts for the squad). Wrecks slow down other vehicles do they not?
The Seven AFVs (Four tanks, three AGs) were all next to, or one hex away from, the wall in question. ![]("mad.gif")
Can I shoot the thing down?
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If you attack the hex with a wall with engineers or with large caliber guns (direct or indirect fire) you can knock them down, it will become a rough hex.
Hope this helps
[ January 25, 2002: Message edited by: RichardTheFirst ]
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