Siege of Jadotville has anyone done a scenario on this

[MarkSheppard]

Originally Posted by DRG

Great Job but it's a bit odd it's done as a battle against the Irish

I might redo it as a version 2.0

There's a lot of information now available on the intertubes that wasn't available in 1997.

Likasi (Jadotville/Jadotstad) original scale 1:12,500, Edition 1-DMA, Series Z901. U.S. Defense Mapping Agency, 1980. (9.8MB)

Showing that the map design isn't as crazy as originally intended.

[MarkSheppard]

So some information shows that a whole new map will have to be done.

It actually took place outside of Jadotville proper; in something like Rourke's Drift in ZULU!

[MarkSheppard]

Another map and some images of Ford Mk VI ACs being loaded onto C-133s for the trip to the Congo and then operational in the Congo.

[MarkSheppard]

I think I found where it took place in reference to the Army Map from using the clues:

Golf Course Road
+Railroad line
+location of Jadotville

The red area is where I think it took place.

[MarkSheppard]

Found a 1954 map overlay of the region explaining things further:

LINK -- South Africa 1:250,000 Series Z501, U.S. Army Map Service, 1954-

Explaining things further.

[MarkSheppard]

Aha, here we are.

26.75925071387533
-10.98865051687737

Is roughly where it took place

Spinning to 28 June 2005 in Google Earth gets me this view:



That matches up (especially the ridge!) with this drawing

[MarkSheppard]

So here's how to make a custom map using WW2Map's "IMPORT" feature.

Go find where you want to make a map of in Google Earth, and draw a line measurement tool about 50m to help you get the pixel scaling.

Proceed to do some calculations:



In photoshop or paint shop pro, draw on a second layer various features of interest.



For the Terrain Import feature of WW2 Map:

Color Triplets R, G, B combined gets you a specific color.

GREEN = amount above 155 is the % of tree coverage.
RED = Amount above 155 is % of roughness?

Here's the Import Map attached to this post.

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To use the import feature:

LOAD MAP -> CLRWW2v3.DAT (loads blank SPCAMO map)

TOOLS -> import from bitmap

load bmp (load your bitmap with stuff laid out)

Set the conversion scale to (10, 10) pixels/hex

Push TER CONVERT

Close import window.

Save your map.

Copy your map into the SPCAMO MBT Maps directory and load it in the map editor.



I need to do some editing, but this allows you to lay out the general "area" of a map quickly and accurately, without having to "hex count".

[MarkSheppard]

I spoke too soon. Apparently it's not perfect, because as soon as you try to edit it in SPCAMO...it becomes all messy. :-(

[Suhiir]

E for Effort?

[MarkSheppard]

There's only one solution:

Write my own map modification software.

I actually do have experience in this; since a few years back, I wrote a map dumper/repacker for War in the Pacific Admiral's edition: