New frontline - Far East

From what I see the map is heavy inspired by Harbin.

Here few more pictures that can help you improve a bit the city:

Manchuria Under Japanese Rule | Manchukuo | Documentary Film | ca. 1937

I like how you did the Type-11 tram cars however they where more common in Dalian:


So the map is a bit of combination of Entire Manchuria but I think will be nice if you add the hotel building if you wanna give more General view you can barrow it from the Burma map since its very similar the Yamato Hotel:


Can be added to the the map. However they where chain of hotels so if you have time and resources you can add the Harbin Yamato hotel :
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Yamato Hotel - Wikipedia

Here more pictures from old Tokyo website:

Miscellaneous scenes of Manchukuo, c. 1940. | Old Tokyo

You can see the lack of roads to give you more clear picture the city looks a bit too industrialized for Manchuria.


Around the center of the city should be more roads and at the outskirts the road can be missing.

South Manchuria Railway Co., c. 1930-1940. | Old Tokyo

However if its more Harbin the city can be more industrialized and have even factories and train station and less trolleys but they where trolleys so I cant say how much is too much :smiley: :

Manchukuo The Newborn Empire - Manchukuo Japanese China Propaganda Film 23040 HD

Since the transportation was more horse and human drawn wagons and a train station.

But over all great map it looks a combination between Dalian and Harbin I’m looking forward Mutanchiang with the destroyed railways and more destroyed city:

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USSR vs Japan: The Soviet Union’s Invasion Of Manchuria | Battlefield | War Stories

But overall the map looks good very Manchurian look:

The video is taken from my visit to my subjects of Manchuria :smiley:

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Well, we will say it in the game, but please don’t simply copy the burgers in Normandy all right?

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The picture on the left do not look like a permanent fortress, more like a burger aimed at the resistance fighters and uprise from the local. Not sure this kind of burger could appear on the border.

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Great thanks for that. Also not labled but implied is 1945 Manchuria aspect of the front line.

WHAT BR will this be playable at?

Obviously all BRs. They wouldnt put ussr vs japan just for high br and we already have late war maps in low br and early war maps in high br

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All
Btw there is no new customization presets
USSR uses Berlin customization, and japan still uses their usual customization

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Thank you, also good to know.

Maybe add that information to the article, would help folks.

Major Disappointment!
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This looks like Moscow or Rizev, but okay, the rest are very cool and beautiful, I can’t wait to do a Kamikaze Attack with my D3A1 in an IS-2.

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I hope that there will be a low BR map made of early WW2 with the use of those assets, in similar way how it was done with Rzhev

thanks for posting in proper resolution, as the main post one are always so small you cant even admire the details

It was mostly a multicultural city consisting of Han Chinese and significant minorities like Manchu, Koreans, Hui, Mongols, alongside historical Russian and Polish communities (railroad workers)

HAHAHAHAHA
Stop being so ignorant dude, forgot about China-Towns?
Also with Harbin its different as it was just a small village when Russians started settling there

First, do you really equate metropolis Chinatown to the Chinese towns I meant? Again, there are actual/historical Chinese villages in the U. S., especially in California. What I meant is clearly a degree of representation. Imagine you make a film of San Francisco or L.A. and every building is Japanese style and adjacent towns all Chinese style. Very accurate representation.
Second, it was not revealed to us at the point of those posts that the map is Harbin. It don’t look like Harbin with the scale and Japanese colonial village next to it. There certainly were not that many trees and hills around. It should be barren and spacious.
Third and most important, you can’t change the fact that it is a Manchuria front with minimal Chinese representation. It is simply indefensible. Imagine make the Battle of France, and the only map is French Indochina so all the Pacific and Burma assets could be reused.

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No, but Harbin was a Russian settlement so it makes sense for it to still have these kind of things even in WW2, I doubt any of the original settlers would leave Harbin to Russia just to get treated as spies and be persecuted.

Matter of Knowledge, but you could have waited instead of getting mad over it as if it was something off a fantasy

Those are just screenshots, unless you already played on test server?

I agree with that and it should be changed

Sadly Harbin wasnt strictly a 100% Chinese city, especially in early XX Century and if China would really have to get represented well they would need to have their own faction just as France you mentioned. Which atm cant be done considering TT would be just copy paste and the playerbase is too small for it to get split with another one. My solution would be a PvE mode which would allow for such additions but bots are still too dumb

Confirmed to be all BRs

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I know, it sucks and both new Manchuria and Berlin shouldnt be avaiable for low BR.

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It is not a recreation of Harbin like Berlin or Stalingrad, so the label of Harbin has little meaning beyond surface inspiration. Otherwise, Russian buildings and Japanese colonial village won’t appear in the same map.

I don’t get your point. At the very beginning of 1900s, it was a Russian majority if we don’t count the adjacent villages. But by the time of WWII, it has grown into a metropolis with 700k population. It has diverse cultural background, so why is it represented in such a screwed and crude form? You do realize the imperialist undertone here, right? Oh, Manchuria, the lost Russian colony to Japan. Do the setting justice so no misunderstanding would occur. In other words, the player reaction should be “wow, what an interesting blend of culture and the map has its own charm” than “didn’t know Manchuria was Russian” or “what a random mess”
I am simply asking for a better representation of the region. Be it Harbin or not, whether there are Russian buildings, Japanese colonial settlements, Chinese houses. Do the setting Justice, not just random mix of Moscow/Burma/Pacific/Bulge/Rzhev assets. It is not hard to understand.

It has nothing to do with factions. It is only about maps. Burma maps has Southeast Asian temple without the need of adding the faction. It is all about flavour. Current Manchuria front is Russian town and Japanese villages. Can’t say that is a good representation. Btw, Manchuria is a large region and where Jurchens originates. Again, if it is still not clear enough, there needs to be more new assets and effort than just few Chinese signs.

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yes, its just the same case as with Burma, where a city, temples, parks and a village is all squashed together into one odd map instead of separating them further for some unique battle grounds as it was with older campaigns

Now I understand :stuck_out_tongue:

I wouldnt agree at first but as I saw the screenshots from editor one person posted I do agree it needs some more work

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Agreed. I’m not an expert on Chinese cities and architecture, so I can’t comment on those, but it looks great! Though, if it’s like Burma, we’ll be getting a lot of rooftop campers. LOL

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Maybe they are being a little lazy cause War Thunder is adding infrantry to their game. Maybe Enlisted is not planning on being here much longer.No imagination in developement lately. Just a thought. Major do you think your job is secure?

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