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Bongoboy, designer de Splash Damage a dit sur le forum de S.D. :
http://www.splashdamage.com/forums/showthread.php?t=3146
«The radar in question is the experimental FuMG (FLAK) 39 TA «Wurzburg» location/identification radar developed by Telefunken, which went into service with the Luftwaffe's Anti-Aircraft Artillery batteries as the FuMG 62. Other radars were also named after German cities, such as the FuMG 63 «Mainz» and FuMG 64 «Mannheim».

The Radar map is distantly based on Operation «Biting» (28th February 1942), a raid on a radar test site at Bruneval, near Le Havre on the coast of Normandy. The raid was carried out by men from C Company of the 2nd Battalion of the 1st Parachute Brigade, and was entirely successful, stealing vital components and intelligence that gave Britain an edge in the technology war that helped with the air war that ultimately helped win the ground war.
Most of the ET maps are based on actual commando raids or historical locations/actions, and then ruthlessly fiddled with/bent/tickled for gameplay purposes. Just as Battery moved mysterious from the Atlantic coast of France to the Mediterranean coast of Tunisia, so Radar moved from France to the Baltic. We thought about putting yet another secret test site on the island of Peenemunde, but decided that it would be too crowded. So we put it on the other side of the Baltic. No, there never was any such test site in Sweden. Yes, we know where Wurzburg is. Although we often lose the umlaut over the «u».
And no, computer games have absolutely nothing whatsoever to do with actual combat or wars or historical conflicts. Those are real life things. Anything else we can clear up?

D’autres choses que nous pourrions tirer au clair ?»


Gorobei of Real-ET delivers its opinion:
Without respecting the geography, the originators of the play place the mission on a Danish island, the plays remains faithful to the objectives, namely to recover elements of the radar. Each ally tries to be Cox engineer ! The site chosen by Splashdamage, in Denmark, is perhaps erroneous but it respects some logic, knowing that there were many possible air routes to carry out raids on Germany and thus of the stations of radars disseminated a little everywhere in Europe. Few German cities escaped from the bombardments even when they did not have military objectives.
The chart «Wurzburg Radar» is the occasion for the team «history» of Yepteam to point out the development of one of new technologies which marks one new era started as of the end of the XIXème century, that of the modern war. The radar allows engagements long range where one locates the enemy beyond horizon, in the night or under water, the capacities human being are then completely exceeded. The last "knights", the fighter pilots, disappear little by little because of the radars (their final death will occur with the invention of the missile with homing device).
The victory is acquired by the material power, the fire power and not thanks to individual courage. This last is definitively a memory of another time.
In addition this file enables me here to recall, too briefly, the fate of the civil ones which suffered much more than at the time of the preceding conflicts, in any case on a much greater scale. Beyond the techniques, dates, figures they are million men, women and children of all the country (English, French, Polish, Russian German...) which suffered, often without knowing too much why. one focused oneself a long time rightly on the maltreatments perpetrated against civil by the armies Nazis in particular or Soviet. But blind and terrorist bombardments, (initiated by German and Japanese!) constituted as much, if not more, one traumatism for the contemporaries.
The violence of the explosions killed and wounded indistinctly old men, women and children (the men were on the face). How many survivors, didn't victims of nervous traumatisms which had with the shocks of the deflagrations, find a sleep peaceful the remainder of their life?
Is it necessary to speak about the terror which seizes people when the city is gained by thousands of fires, that floods of liquids ignited flood the streets, or which finally a plugging light extinct any life? What to say million private refugees of shelters whereas the winter and its temperatures of less twenty degrees arrive? On the photographs of the time, one notes in the eyes of the contemporaries, who they are of a camp or of another, same distress in the glance. To say that the war is a plague is to insert an open door but I made a point of reconsidering the unhappy fate of those which do not leave a trace in the warlike history whereas they are with the first cabins.
I also hope that the study of the wars of last will consolidate us in our opposition to the fatal wars and imbeciles of today. There is here, few documents on the sufferings civil but it are enough for you to look at the topicality in the world to imagine what one undergoes Europeans and the Asian ones during this conflict which interests us so much.