10/11/2023 0 Comments Company of heroes 1 best trench maps![]() Still waist-deep after being abandoned in September 1918 and surrounded by shell craters. In 20 we followed trench map locations from the 11th AIF Brigade unit war diary and navigated to bunkers they used, a filled in Brigade HQ on the Somme and in obscure locations, undamaged trench segments, with the trench line full of new growth and an intersecting communication trench. Nothing beats mapping a bunker, having Google's voice on a tablet saying 'you have arrived at your destination' and spotting it. COH1 may be dated now, but it was the best looking RTS for like ten years. Also, the story and setting being 1980s Europe/America during the outbreak of WW3 was particularly compelling to a man who grew up in the 80s and 90s. Multi-country data SIMS are now cheap and prolific (ours was from Three and covered Belgium, France, Ireland and UK). The game focused on moment-to-moment movement and action. ![]() Load pins into Google Maps, right click and select 'Directions to here'. Master this in a few hours and you can visit the Western Front. MrEd, once you have the latitude and longitude you can do this in Google Earth and by putting in the date for each location, have Google show a slider so that you can follow a unit in chronological order.
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