Darkest Hour: Normandy 1944 Mod for Red Orchestra: Ostfront 41-45 Custom Map Mini-Pack Release news

Two long-awaited custom maps have been released by the Darkest Hour community: Carmes Pont and Hürtgenwald. They have so far been received quite well and we are happy to spread them more throughout the community by providing a self-installer and screen shots for all of our viewers.

You can download the Custom Map mini-pack on our Downloads page.

Carmes Pont

By Killer9999
Released: 29 June 2008

In this infantry map located approximately 10 miles south-east of Carentan, the 82nd Airborne Division attacks - for the second time - the small village crossing of Carmes Pont. Their aim is to secure both sides of the village separated by the river and take the church to remove possible sniper attack on the village. Also information has come to light that shows the 352nd Infantry division have wired the bridges with explosives; it is up to the commanders of the 82nd airborne to use and protect or if ultimately necessary destroy the bridges in a last of attempt to secure this village on foot.

  
  

Hürtgenwald

By Sichartshofen
Released: 28 June 2008
By September 1944, the Allied offensive in Western Europe had swept from the Normandy beaches all the way to the West Wall, or Siegfried Line, the formidable defensive position along the German border consisting of concrete bunkers fronted by antitank obstacles. Anxious to move quickly through the West Wall, Major General J. Lawton Collins, commander of the First Army’s VII Corps, plotted an advance south and east of Aachen through a 70-square-mile section of heavily wooded terrain known as the Hürtgen Forest. The forest, largely planted and nurtured by the Third Reich, presented an almost solid growth of trees that reduced visibility to a few yards. It contained few roads, steep hills and a handful of clearings for sev-eral villages. Although German strategists believed no sensible adversary would seek to penetrate the forest, they had nevertheless honeycombed it with thickly shielded emplacements capable of providing interlocking fire to one another. On September 14, 1944, the 9th Infantry Division became the first to test the defenses.