YOUNGSTOWN, OHIO

A COMMAND AND CONQUER: GENERALS MAP

BY JIM MCBREARTY | www.cncseries.com

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BACKGROUND

Youngstown is a typical American town, seperated from the millions of other "typical" towns by it's immortalisation by Bruce Springsteen on "The Ghost of Tom Joad". Skillfull pimping of an excellent album in a readme. Nothing like it. Buy Nebraska too. Haunting tribute to the working class and all that.

Anyway, the industrial installations to the north-west of Youngstown has been struck by a terrorist raid, and there is some contamination from radioactive isotopes. A truly skillful General will know how to take advantage of this. Key to achieving a victory in Youngstown will be control of the limited oil supplies and holding onto the bridgeheads. An Oil Refinery in the centre of this zone and it's defensive bunkers also provide a focus point.

The map is intentionally small, and establishing a secondary base at any one of the major resource centres is pretty crucial for victory. The chokepoints and strategically placed structures should deter any rushing, but there is enough alternate routes into bases to make sure the threat never evaporates completely. A refreshing chance from the sprawling (by comparison at least) Official maps.

I've tried to utilise as many small features such as Lamposts, Paths and Barrels to give the map a feeling of detail; it's not quite up to the standard of the more established map makers ... yet!

And hey, it's my first map, so be gentle with the critism :p 

Good Luck!

Send any feedback to Jim@cncseries.com

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CREDITS AND THANKS

*	Everyone on MSN for putting up with my bleeting on MSN about World Builder.
*	Paul and Ash for providing; scripting "ideas" that have been saved for future maps :P 
*	Everyone on the CNC Series forums.
*	Bob Dylan, Eric Clapton, U2, The Beach Boys for populating my WinAmp playlist.
*	Bruce Springsteen for being a general rock legend and giving me a title for my map. He *will* come to 			Scotland one day.
*	RVMech for his fine tutorials
*	Waraddict for getting the AI to work!
*	Everyone who feels they deverse a mention or I forgot ...

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YOUNGSTOWN:

Here in north east Ohio
Back in eighteen-o-three
James and Danny Heaton
Found the ore that was linin' yellow creek
They built a blast furnace
Here along the shore
And they made the cannon balls
That helped the union win the war

Here in Youngstown
Here in Youngstown
My sweet Jenny, I'm sinkin' down
Here darlin' in Youngstown

Well my daddy worked the furnaces
Kept 'em hotter than hell
I come home from 'Nam worked my way to scarfer
A job that'd suit the devil as well
Taconite, coke and limestone
Fed my children and made my pay
Then smokestacks reachin' like the arms of god
Into a beautiful sky of soot and clay

Here in Youngstown
Here in Youngstown
My sweet Jenny, I'm sinkin' down
Here darlin' in Youngstown

Well my daddy come on the 0hio works
When he come home from world war two
Now the yards just scrap and rubble
He said, "Them big boys did what Hitler couldn't do"
These mills they built the tanks and bombs
That won this country's wars
We sent our sons to Korea and Vietnam
Now we're wondering what they were dyin' for

Here in Youngstown
Here in Youngstown
My sweet Jenny, I'm sinkin' down
Here darlin' in Youngstown

From the Monongaleh valley
To the Mesabi iron range
To the coal mines of Appalacchia
The story's always the same
Seven-hundred tons of metal a day
Now sir you tell me the world's changed
Once I made you rich enough
Rich enough to forget my name

In Youngstown
In Youngstown
My sweet Jenny, I'm sinkin' down
Here darlin' in Youngstown

When I die I don't want no part of heaven
I would not do heavens work well
I pray the devil comes and takes me
To stand in the fiery furnaces of hell
 
Copyright  Bruce Springsteen (ASCAP)  





