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  Terrain Challenge: Terrain Challenge #2 (Solved!)
Posted on Wed Aug 26, 2009 7:28 am by webmaster
Terrain Challenge Submitted by Franzauk. No clues to go along with...



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Re: Terrain Challenge #2 (Score: 1)
by mooxe on Wed Aug 26, 2009 7:42 am
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I have no idea. Large hill with over watch of river crossing. Desert type terrain..




Re: Terrain Challenge #2 (Score: 1)
by rumilodin on Sat Aug 29, 2009 10:04 pm
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It looks like same as terrain whch Ottoman Fourth Army Fought in WWI at Palestine Sector. There is Riverside and a Hill surrounded by maquis plants. Typical Mediterranean.




Re: Terrain Challenge #2 (Score: 1)
by matthewhalos on Sat Sep 05, 2009 10:59 am
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A map from Close Combat: Modern Tactics




Re: Terrain Challenge #2 (Score: 1)
by Senior_Drill on Wed Sep 09, 2009 4:02 am
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Definately not Modern Tactics or CCM any version, for that matter. None use sat photo backgrounds.

Low population arid area relying on the river for irrigation. A fringe area but with a major highway. Note the circular field on the right boarder - typical for US western states, not sure how widespread the practice in other regions.




Re: Terrain Challenge #2 (Score: 1)
by Senior_Drill on Wed Sep 09, 2009 4:34 am
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Some further observations:

Farm on the right side has about six buildings. Looks like a single family operation.

The hill has mesa like steep cliff walls that plateau to genteler slopes. The structure lower to the left has a domed top and a compound wall. "H" looking structures appear to be a collection of smaller buildings. The diagonal line suggests towers or tall trees. It has a monastery look to it.

The river has two cataracts. One around the island near the "W" and one farther right. Not navigable, so not a trading route.

The "town" bottom left has side, or service road that is paved with different material than the (asphalt) highway, probably concrete. The buildings are large, suggesting local wealth. One south of the highway has a back area the size of a tennis court or covered pool. The line above them that angles up left shows a color variation in the vegatation, which suggest it is a leaking water pipeline providing water to areas south and downhill.

If this is a battle site, it is not WWII. I'd put it in the US as an Indian Wars site (but not Little Big Horn) or South African. Other than that, I'm stumped.




Re: Terrain Challenge #2 (Score: 1)
by matthewhalos on Thu Sep 10, 2009 3:17 am
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this is very difficult!!

i think the "W" in the map is the logo of Wikipedia, so i think that the map came from Wikipedia but I do not know what place is that.....




Re: Terrain Challenge #2 (Score: 1)
by Franzauk on Sat Sep 12, 2009 1:07 am
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Senior_Drill you are doing very well.

You got the location correct with South Africa. And for spotting the part of the circular farmland on the top right, a center-pivot irrigation system. Ignore the structures on the big hill, they are a modern addition, communication towers.

You are right that the river branches are not navigable, but it’s fordable.

It is a railway embankment that creates the different coloured background and crosses the river at the Wikipedia icon.



Re: Terrain Challenge #2 (Score: 1)
by Senior_Drill on Sat Sep 12, 2009 7:49 am
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Ah, a near miss does score a half point evidently! A clue! After posting the one comment about the major route being a roadway, I began to suspect that it could indeed be a railway. The thing that threw me off are the dark spots along it. I was thinking those would be vehicles, when they are now probably shadows. A northern hemispheric orientation was my bad on that.

I've helped reset and adjust a center pivot irrigation system and seen them from the air many times. While Google Earthing around after my first comment, I did notice that it is quite common in many areas of the world.

So, Zulu Wars or Boer War. Not Rorke's Drift, Isandlwana or Spioen Kop. Looks too arid to be in Natal. The hunt is on!


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Re: Terrain Challenge #2 (Score: 1)
by Franzauk on Sat Sep 12, 2009 12:00 pm
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Yes, it took place during one of the Boer Wars.




Re: Terrain Challenge #2 (Score: 1)
by Senior_Drill on Sat Sep 12, 2009 9:42 pm
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Got it! The Battle of Paardeberg. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Paardeberg . It took the clues and confirmation that it was South Africa and from the Boer Wars to sort through the dozens of battlefields.

"The Battle of Paardeberg or Perdeberg ("Horse Mountain") was a major battle during the Second Anglo-Boer War. It was fought near Paardeberg Drift on the banks of the Modderrivier ("Mud River") in the Orange Free State near Kimberley.

The battle was the culmination of a move by British forces to defeat Boer forces under Cronje and to relieve the besieged city of Kimberley. The retreating Boer army under Piet Cronjé were intercepted at Paardeberg, and surrendered after a prolonged siege, having fought off an attempted direct assault by Lieutenant General Horatio Kitchener."



Re: Terrain Challenge #2 (Score: 1)
by mooxe on Sat Sep 12, 2009 11:20 pm
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Nicely done. I was combing Wikipedia myself looking for this image haha..

Next challenge coming up...


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Re: Terrain Challenge #2 (Score: 1)
by Franzauk on Sat Sep 12, 2009 10:56 pm
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Excellent, good job!




Re: Terrain Challenge #2 (Solved!) (Score: 1)
by Hetser on Fri May 02, 2014 9:10 am
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The new Colorado grow-op since legalization?


 
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