DCS World DCS: Normandy 2.0

DCS: Normandy 2.0 is a map for DCS World, covering parts of France and Great Britain across a 400/600-kilometer area. It recreates the region around Normandy, including Paris and London, major cities on both sides of the English Channel, and the surrounding coastline, ports and rivers. The map is compatible with all DCS World modules, so missions can use both World War II equipment and modern weapons, aircraft and helicopters.

The map

The map includes southern England and northern and central France, with detailed recreations of English cities such as Eastbourne, Brighton, Worthing and Portsmouth, and French cities such as Caen, Le Havre, Rouen, Amiens and Calais. More than 100 historically authentic buildings and structures include the Eiffel Tower, Notre Dame de Paris, the Louvre, Buckingham Palace, Kensington Palace, Westminster Palace and Tower Bridge. The map also contains over 100,000 buildings, towns and cities.

Its coastline on both sides of the English Channel includes recreated sea and river ports. The map has 90 airfields, including Allied deployment fields as well as Farnborough, Chailey, Ford and Heathrow in England, and Lonrai, Cormeilles-en-Vexin and Villacoublay in France.

Operation Overlord

The map supports recreations of the major battles of Operation Overlord, from D-Day to the liberation of Paris. The battle area stretches from Omaha Beach almost to the Belgian border and includes the assault on the Atlantic Wall, Operation Cobra, Operation Tractable, the Allied Falaise pocket and Germany's Operation Mortain counter-offensive to relieve surrounded troops.

You can stage air battles between Allied fighters and the Luftwaffe, guerrilla operations and the French Resistance uprising in Paris. Missions can also include raids behind enemy lines with a Mosquito high-speed bomber and train-hunting sorties with a P47 heavy fighter.

Lighting and seasons

The map features real-time lighting. Because of wartime blackouts, airfields, ports and cities—including London and Paris—are lit when the mission time is set to 1946. The Early Access version includes spring, summer and autumn.

Other features

The map also includes training missions and campaigns for practicing flying in different scenarios, along with realistic engine, gunfire and explosion sounds.