As many of you guys know, War Thunder has a lot of maps, like a LOT of maps. I’m sure most people have noticed that some maps are much better and worse than others. But one map stands above them all, featuring brawling, flanking, sniping, and good CAS and AA coverage. The map I’m referring to is obviously Sands of Sinai. This map does everything a tank game should feature, it’s great for planes, but very manageable for anti air, it’s great for helicopters, with cover, but also a need to be exposed to fire which helps helicopters. The spawns are perfectly placed, the map is perfectly sized for most BR’s, and it all just works out well. Even the smaller version of the map placed to the right of it is an amazing map, capping points on the map really means something because you can defend points, attack them well, and spawn camping isn’t an instant plague most times due to both spawns being in cover. Compare this to a map such as Port Novorossiysk, where it’s hard to advance through the city on both sides, the sides are chaotic and fill up fast when being camped, it is also a very easy map to do CAS in because the large portion of capture points are open, while spawns are confined and can’t really look up to the sky on any angles. Pair this with the open part of the map being closed off now, so the AA has to be in the open exposed to enemy tank players, the CAS has free reign once they can get above the battlefield, and tank players can’t move up to battle for points. On the opposite side of the spectrum, we have Red Desert, this map is hated by everyone, it shouldn’t be played anymore due to how repetitive and boring gameplay can be. There is only sniping and flanking, people don’t advance into points because they get shot against the map, planes crap on the tanks due to the amount of cover they can find behind mountains, and worse of all for Gaijin, it probably costs them more than any of the other maps because of the excessive size and amount of stuff cluttered on it! A good example of a decent big map is Pradesh, it has hull down battles that aren’t fought from the side, brawling on the sides of the map, and the air craft power to AA power ratio is perfectly balanced. So I ask again, why can’t we find more happy mediums like Sands of Sinai?
Bro add some spacing in there dam, it’s hard to read that
Idk about more desert maps, they’re really not good for people who actually want to snipe and flank and not just in a far corner on the map but somewhere like in an area where it impacts the cycle.
Soviet MBTs perform poorly on open maps like that
Makes me want to melt my fingers when I play unstab tanks in mid tier
This map is very good for spawn camping.
For some reason, whenever I use paragraphs it just messes up the format of everything. It annoys me to read it in it’s current form too.
Try typing it up in notepad and then pasting into forum.
I think for that, we need a forest map, like hurtgen, but the size of Sands of Sinai. Fields of Poland has too many open fields.
Poland and Fulda aren’t so bad it’s just that the various hills in the middle kind of disrupt the flow
Meh its too flat. You literally can see the radar of a multi vehicle spaa from spawn to spawn.
And very easy to spawncamp.
Alsoin the 2 cap mode, while sitting at capture point you can be seen from enemy spawn and shot at with enemy spawn protection.
Excuse you.
I almost always flank in my AML-90 when playing Sands of Sinai, and can often grab 3 or so kills at the A point, just go fast enough were no one can shoot you, and you can catch them off guard
Just use line breaks, that works perfectly fine to structure the text… = )
Sands of Sinai is definitely a weird one personally I prefer the smaller version of it due to its more intense CQC but still maintaining hilly and covered positions to prevent spawnkilling to a degree, it also gets rid of those huge open crossings that you have to go through on the larger maps in order to get to the other points. I think we definitely could use more maps that utilize 3 lanes so we can have maps that are more equal for both sides. But while were discussing maps please remove Hurtgen Forest from top tier it genuinely is just bad map design.
if lazy, can just use AI to do it for us bro
Regarding maps, I gonna list the worst map base on my opinion (11.7+)
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fire arc (map is too flat, feels like you running around naked and afraid people might see you. hate this feel. I quit this map without spawning. Only time I played it is trolling with 2s6 to rain bullets into their spawn)
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abandone factory (cqc nonsense, like really? this map has high drop rate so I assume that people like this crap for top tier vehicles?)
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alaska (another cqc orange cat trash, poor visibility with everything blends into the environment like if you don’t have thermals don’t bother. I thought its gone for good, why bother coming back bro stay gone please)
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sun city (cqc trash, flat as hell like no place to hull down. Gone for a few months and why did you have to come back bro)
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advance to the rhine (cqc trash, looks even dumber if someone spawn multi vehicles SAM in here lol if your tank reload 5s or quicker you can sit at a corner like a rat and get nuke.)
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sweden (hadn’t played this map for 6 months I think, quit every time without spawning. cqc trash. Now that I’ve start researching sweden and japan, which mean I can quit this map more often and no wait time for crew lock)
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el alamein (hate this map, don’t ask why and am too lazy to tell)
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38th parallel (rubbish bowl map, like you and your sisters/stepmoms trapped inside a bowl so enemy apes strapped with jetpacks just dump rockets/bombs on you and you are trapped in there like an idiot)
Like bastard, we need to have the option to ban more than one maps bro
More map bans for sure
Fulda would be better at top tier with the map borders expanded significantly. Plenty of forests and rolling hills.
So true
How remove it from ALL tiers. It sucks no matter what BR you are in. At least the setup where u only have the 1 Cap in the valley by the river. It’s just a big camp-fest.