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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.
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