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* Summer Offensive Map Pack *
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Description
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This pack contains 7 of the maps entered in MapOrchestra's Summer Offensive Contest. Each map was designed to show a new perspective of what Vehicle combat for Red Orchestra can be, and features a minimum of 3 Tanks per side. 

So prepare to immerse yourself in entirely new forms of vehicle combat and to rediscover combined arms for Red Orchestra.

Featuring:
-Tank combat from point blank to extreme range (Binoculars will now become a vital tool)
-A Fully functional German parachute Assault
-Captured Russian Panthers
-Entirely new Combined Arms experiences
-Terrain and obstacles allowing for realistic battlefield tactics and manoeuvring
-A wide variety of terrain and weather conditions, ranging from wide open spaces, to narrow streets blanketed in clinging fog, and from bright sunshine to night combat.
-A huge new proof-of-concept map, redefining what the word "big" means
-Immersion like never before


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Installation Instructions
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Install/Extract into your Ut2004 directory, all files will be placed in correct folders

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Server Admins Only
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To run RO-IronAnnie_SO on your server you will need to do the following:

1.) Open redorchestra.ini
2.) Either scroll or use the 'find' tool to locate the ServerPackages
3.) Add the following line (without the quotation marks) ' ServerPackages=edo_chute1 '
4.) Save the .ini


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Map Listing & Contest Results
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RO-Korsun_SO		- WickedPenguin		- 1st Place
RO-Contestmap_SO	- SaveThejets		- 2nd Place 
RO-Arad_SO		- FlashPanHunter		- 3rd Place
RO-Rueckzug_SO		- Monk			- 4th Place
RO-Perekop_SO 		- Koetje			- Special Recognition
RO-KarpezosMove_SO	- UncleDrax		- Honourable Mention
RO-Ogledow_SO		- Daskarma		- Honourable Mention	
RO-Kolberg_SO		- MoinoO09F + Grosbill	- Honourable Mention

Due to time constraints RO-Kolberg_SO was unable to be completed in time and therefore is not included in the pack. However we look forward to seeing it completed and released in the near future, and await the final release with anticipation.


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Map Details
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Mapname: RO-Arad_SO
Author: 'Flashpanhunter' 
E-Mail: cwc245@nyu.edu

Description:
Mid-Summer, 1944
Soviet Armor skirmishes with German and Hungarian Forces in preparation for assaults upon Debrecen and Oradea.

Notes:
Surrounded by dense forest and nestled between grassy rolling hills, two villages become the focus of tense mid-to-long-range tank combat. The open terrain with undulating hills allow players to use flanking moves against the enemy, as well as being able to use hull down tactics to minimise exposure to return fire. Anti-tank infantry and artillery spotters make the villages a potential deathtrap for tanks.

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Mapname: RO-IronAnnie_SO
Author: Kyle 'savethejets' Reczek
E-Mail: savethejets@hotmail.com

Description: 
June 27th, 1941
In the East, German forces encircle several Soviet divisions near Minsk with the assistance of German Fallschirmjager

Notes:
A very immersive map, the darkness is broken by the tracer fire from AA guns arcing through the sky towards the rumbling Ju-52s overhead. Fallschirmjager rain down by parachute, in support of tanks on the ground, whilst the sounds and voices of infantry fighting can be heard all around you. Most important of all is that this is the first Red Orchestra map to feature working parachutists! Simply step from the open door of a JU-52 and prepare to be treated to an experience unlike anything before in RO.

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Mapname: RO-KarpezosMove_SO
Author: Kenneth 'UncleDrax' Reising
E-Mail:  uncledrex@lunchcrew.org

Description: 
24 June, 1941.
Just 2 days after German forces cross into Russia. Russian resistance is weak at best and the German Blitzkrieg is moving quickly across the Ukraine. Remnants of the Russian 10th Tank Division gather quickly to stall the advance of the Panzers. They meet 70 miles NW of L'viv, near the town of Radechov.

This is a fictional engagement based on the actual actions of General I.I. Karpezo near Radechov in an attempt to stall the German offensive.

Notes:
Brutal tank combat set amongst farmland and hills. Watch as tanks disappear into fields of wheat and Russian tanks become long range anti-tank guns turning the town of Radechov into a fortress. Beautiful countryside has never been the setting for an armoured bloodbath of this scale. The distances of engagement can be extreme range and tanks move in support each of other with multiple tanks firing upon a single enemy at times. This is a map where you will be thankful your tank commander has binoculars as he scans the far distance for the shape of a barely visible turret.

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Mapname: RO-KorsunAirfield_SO
Author: Mark 'WickedPenguin' Rossmore, with assistance from 'Crube' on the Russian Panther
E-Mail: utdesign@wickedpenguin.com

Description:
February 17, 1944
As more than 50,000 Germans attempt a desperate breakout on foot from the small town of Korsun deep in the Cherkassy-Korsun Pocket, a few brave German soldiers stay behind to delay the Russian advance at Korsun's Airfield.

Notes:
Amidst a smoky haze settling down after days of intense artillery bombardment, German troops and their Panthers prepare to fight a desperate delaying action. What they don’t know is that the Russians have captured some Panthers themselves, new additions to their arsenal which have been freshly repainted and conscripted into their service. As the battle wages from the Dnepr River bridgehead to the hangars and runway of the airfield, don’t get too distracted by the destructible targets around you. You’ll have to focus on target identification to spot the difference between friendly and enemy Panthers. Is that Panther coming out of the smoke a friend…or foe?

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Mapname: RO-Ogledow_SO
Author: Robert '|DEM|dasKaRmA' Chudalla 
E-Mail:  robert@chudalla.de

Description:
11th August, 1944 
Poland, Swietokrzyskie-District. German 16th. Pz.Div. and 501st Heavy Tank Battalion have launched an attack onto the Russian Lines around the Village of Ogledow. They only expect some small Resistance from the Russians. But the 6th Guards Tanks Corps gets supported by the 71st Independent Guards Heavy Tank Battalion with their new IS2 Tanks....... 

Notes:
A beautiful and fairly compact map where two tank units plough into each other headfirst, the only result can be destruction. Heavy and medium tanks use the terrain to gain any possible advantage, walls and slopes allow hull down tactics, a hill provides a tactical vantage point over the battlefield and buildings, trees and small dips in the terrain provide cover and assist in covering flanking moves. Anti-tank crews prowl the countryside and buildings, preying on unwary tank crews with ambush tactics, stealth, and their loaded PTRD’s and  Panzerfausts. A simple yet very elegant map, which allows players to just focus on using their tanks and the terrain to maximise their chances of survival, whilst their opponents attempt to do the same.

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Mapname: RO-Perekop_SO
Author: Vincent ‘Koetje’ Zwart
E-Mail: koetje@koetje.zapto.org

Description:

Notes:
An accurate ¼ scale version of the first German assault onto the Crimean peninsula built from maps and satellite images of the area. A map that dwarfs even Kalinin and makes Barashka seem like a backyard, the size has to be seen to be fully comprehended. The scale of the map makes it not entirely suitable for only 32 players, making us eagerly await the day where player limits are 64-128 or greater. However, it does show what the future may bring and exactly what kind of scale can be supported by future incarnations of RO. With tanks in bunkers for defence, a fully working train crash, viewing distances that stretch to the far horizon and a scale that lets you reach that horizon and find you haven’t even covered half the map, this is an experience unlike no other in RO.

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Mapname: RO-Rueckzug_SO
Author: 'Monk'
E-Mail: -

Description:
January, 1945
German tank crews are racing back to the Oder river to regroup.  Preventing their escape, however, are large numbers of well armed Soviet armoured divisions along with hosts of anti-tank teams.

Notes:
This is survival horror – Red Orchestra style. Dense fog swaths the buildings, the trees, and even the graveyard in a claustrophobic haze. Charging through the mist comes a unit of German Panthers in headlong retreat. You’ll never know what awaits you around the corner, as IS2’s and Panthers drift in and out of the mist and sappers strike silently without ever being seen. Narrow bottle-necked streets, twisting alleys, restricted vision, and the ghostly surrounding forest will scare even the most hardened tanker into paranoia. 


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With Thanks To the following - In no particular Order
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MapOrchestra - VelcroWarrior and FYROM
The Mappers themselves
The Naked Mappers, #RO-Leveldesign on Gamesurge
JCoquillon
Strahd
RO-Battle For Europe
13th Panzer Division, especially Krokar and Leggo
[RO]Ramm-Jaeger
Mr_Rabbit
SuperApe, 
Crube
Nightshade
Retond8
Fivetide
edo and the Realm of Assault Team
Martin Bell
[RO]Ramm-Jaeger again
The entire RO team past and present
The Community for all of their enthusiasm and support

Many thanks to all the others involved in any way, you know who you are...





