3/26/04 - Community Update

A couple of weeks ago we announced the winners of the recent Electronic Arts/PlanetBattlefield, Battlefield 1942 Map Making Contest. Now, we're letting you judge for yourself by downloading the top 5 maps in our special map pack download. Below you'll find map descriptions as written by their creators how well each map did. Congratulations to 1st place winner Bleibringer for creating his Nuenen map, we hope to see even better creations in the future after he receives his brand-new Alienware Area-51 machine.


Nuenen - 1st Place sent in by: bleibringer

Map Description - After the defeat in Normandy and the losses after crossing the Seine, the Germans are forced to retreat to Holland. Allies are on a mission called "Market Garden" to liberate the city of Eindhoven and get closer to the German border with the intent on finishing the war before Christmas. The Axis has moved back to the village of Nuenen near Eindhoven and this is the place where the Allies face a German ambush.


Kasserine - 2nd Place sent in by: Caleb "Danish Monkey" Doughty

Map Description - Kasserine lets players choose to play as the attacking German army, or the Defensive Allied force in the pass. The battle takes place in the deserts of Kasserine surrounding the ever famous Kasserine Pass that the Allied forces desperately tried to hold to trap the Germans in North Africa. The map is set up with two main bases on either side of a large mountain pass with the Americans starting with a weak forward line in the pass and reinforcements on the beach. The Germans start with much more power then the Americans, but they must break through the entrenched Americans at the mouth of the pass.


Battle for Guam - 3rd Place sent in by: LSCIncognito of the Lost Sleep Clan

Map Description - While the Japanese Navy had been losing its aircraft in the Philippine Sea and the U.S. Marines and infantry divisions had been clearing Saipan Island, the U.S. had embarked upon the recapture of a 28 mile long narrow island called Guam. This important base for future operations was held by 18,500 Japanese army and navy personnel, a large proportion of whom were clustered around the airfield. With a recent massacre still fresh in U.S. minds, and the knowledge of Japanese techniques of war, the U.S. commanders took no risks. The bombardment of Guam that preceded the U.S. landing began almost three weeks before the actual invasion. On July 21, 1944, the landing went well, and U.S. forces advanced rapidly on the Orote Peninsula in the South towards the airfield and the high ground beyond. The Japanese then counterattacked and after night of ferocious battles, the Japanese troops all but overwhelmed the U.S. headquarters on the island. By morning Japanese losses were such that they could do nothing but fall back to the North. The battle for Guam was almost over. Yet it was not until a month later that the Japanese had been pushed to the sea and the battling finally came to an end. The total count of enemies killed came to over 10,000.


St Sauveur - 4th Place sent in by: John "PacketlossPete" Buskohl

Map Description - This is an Allies attack / Axis defend type of map similar to Battle of the Bulge. The map is based on the 82nd Airborne Division's push across the Cotentin Peninsula to cut off German support to the peninsula. The 82nd was supported after the initial D-Day landings by the 325th Glider Infantry as well as tank and artillery battalions. The divisions spent the next 9 days fighting across the French farmland reaching St. Sauveur-le-Vicomte on June 16th. Terrain plays a major factor by limiting visibility and confining skirmishes to the small fields between the hedgerows.


Battle of Hurtgen Forest - 5th Place sent in by: Robert Kozura

Map Description - Battle of Hurtgen Forest pits the Germans against the American in the Hurtgen Forest, an area that is in Western Germany. The Germans begin with 4 points on the map and the Americans begin with just 1. The Americans must take all the points from the Germans in the allowed