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Dated February 5th , 2003

Airbase tiles for Falcon4

Introduction.
The purpose of this document is to allow easy sorting of all the airbase tiles for the F4 terrain
makers as well as an eventual update of the tiles to higher quality (256 or even 512).
For ODS, the airbase tiles needs to be reworked to allow blending in the new surrounding
colours. Arranging the tiles related to airbase type will prove useful for the organisation of
that task.

Tiles
There are four types of tiles so far in F4.
Htiles that are 128x128
Mtiles (64x64)
LTiles (32x32)
TTiles (16x16)
Each tile can be declined in the 4 resolutions. Currently, we only modify Htiles since the
lower resolution ones tend to be unused due to the computer power we have at our disposal at
the moment.
Different projects exist so far to increase the tiles resolution above 128 and we’ve already
seen 256 or even 512 tiles.

All 128 tiles relative to airbase are named HBASExxx.pcx where xxx stands for a reference
number.
For a same objective (in our case, read airbase) tiles can ha ve different colours to allow a
good blend with the surrounding tiles. We have three main kinds of tiles in F4:
FARM
FORREST
RIVER (that I mistakenly called GRASS in my images)
There are others kinds such as CITY or COAST but there are isolated as we’ll see farther.
What does it all means?
Let’s take a simple example: a 12_30 airbase. That airbase needs 6 tiles to lay on.
There are plenty of such airbases scattered around Korea and in different environment. To
blend one particular 12_30 airbase in it’s surroundings, we have three set of tiles with
different colours: FARM, RIVER(Grass) and FORREST.

Airbases in F4
In our Falcon World, not all airbase layouts are available. We can only use the layouts
originally created by MPS for Korea. It means that the terrain makers need to find
compromise when placing and orienting a new airbase. (Aviano in real life is 23/05 but that is
not possible in F4 and a compromise had to be found: 21/03)
Each airbase layout has its own objective ID and use a defined set of tiles to lay on. Some
tiles are shared amongst different objectives as we will see later.

Here is the list of available airbase layout in F4:

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Runway Objective ID Tile set available bla
01_19 1772 Forrest
02_20 1773 Forrest, Farm, River (grass)
20_02 1777 Forrest, Farm, River (grass)
02_20 L/R 225 Forrest, Farm, River (grass)
20_02 L/R 219 Forrest, Farm, River (grass)
36_18 1784* ???
05_23 L/R 978 Forrest, Farm, River (grass)
23_05 L/R 1779 Forrest, Farm, River (grass)
08_26 1774 Farm, River (grass)
26_08 1780 Farm, River (grass)
11_29 1775 Farm
12_30 1776 Forrest, Farm, River (grass)
30_12 1781 Forrest, Farm, River (grass)
21_03 1778 River (grass)
32-14 1782 Forrest, Farm, River (grass)
34_16 1783 Forrest, Farm, River (grass)
34_16 L/R 979 Forrest, Farm, River (grass)

505 WONSAN 980 Coast

(01_19 and 15_33)
545 OSAN 216 River (grass)
(08_26)
GEN AFB 1509* ??
(??)
KIMPO 1516 Farm
(14_32 L/R)
MIRIM AFB 2065 Farm
(08_26)
SEOUL AFB 1499 City
(01_19 and 18_36)
SUNAN 1497 Farm
(18_36 and 16_34)
SUWON AFB 1805 Farm
(16_34 L/R)

Highway strip NS 226 Forrest, Farm, River (grass)

(18_36 – short runway)
Highway strip EW 1807 Forrest, Farm, River (grass)
(09_27 – short runway)

The first part of the list are generic airbase and the second part are unique (in Korea) layout
that where customized by the MPS team to have a closer to reality layout. The third part of
the list refers to highway strip. Only two orientations are available: Ns: North – South and
EW for East – West.

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Tiles used for airbase

1. 01-19 airbase: Only available in the forest type.

List of airbase using these 6 tiles in Korea:

Mam’po (DPRK), Liuhe (China)

2. 03_21 airbase:
Available only in River (grass) tile type

List of airbase using these 6 tiles in Korea:

Orang (DPRK)

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2. All: 02_20 airbase: 02_20 , 20_02, 02_20 L/R , 20_02 L/R
Available in forest, farm and River (grass) tile type

List of airbase using

these 6 tiles in
Korea:
Hyon-Ni (DPRK)

List of airbase using these 6 tiles in Korea:

Kwangju (ROK), Seosan (ROK), Panghyon (DPRK)

List of airbase using these 6 tiles in Korea:

Onchon (DPRK), Sondok (DPRK),

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3. All: 05_23 airbase: 05_23 L/R , 23_05 L/R
Available in forest, farm and River (grass) tile type

List of airbase using these 7 tiles in Korea: List of airbase using these 7 tiles in Korea:
Chongju (ROK), Uiju (DPRK), Shenyang Koksan (DPRK), Samjiyon (DPRK)
(China)

List of airbase using these 6 tiles in Korea: Sachon (ROK), Kuum-Ni (DPRK),

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4. 08_26 and 26_08 generic airbase
Available in farm and River (grass) tile type

List of airbase using these 6 tiles in Korea:

Kangnung (ROK), Pohang (ROK)
Iwon (DPRK), Taetan (DPRK)

List of airbase using these 6 tiles in Korea:

Yechon (ROK)

5. 11_29 generic airbase: Available only in farm tile type

List of airbase using these 6 tiles in Korea:

Ongjin (DPRK)

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6. 12_30 and 30_12 generic airbases
Available in forest, farm and River (grass) tile type

List of airbase using these 6 tiles in Korea: List of airbase using these 6 tiles in Korea:
Haeju (DPRK), Hwangsuwon (DPRK),

List of airbase using these 6 tiles in Korea:

Hwang ju (DPRK), Kaechon (DPRK), Taechon (DPRK)

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7. 14_32 and 32_14 generic airbases
Available in farm and River (grass) tile type

List of airbase using these 6 tiles in Korea:

Pukchangup (DPRK), Pusan(ROK), Taegu (ROK),

List of airbase using these 6 tiles in Korea:

Kwail (DPRK), Nachodka (CIS)

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8. All 34_16 airbases: 34_16 and 34_16 L/R
Available in forest, farm and River (grass) tile type

List of airbase using

these 6 tiles in Korea:
Choongwon (ROK),
Kimhae, (ROK),
Sunchon (DPRK)

List of airbase using these

6 tiles in Korea:

List of airbase using these 6 tiles in Korea:

Kunsan (ROK), Pyeongtaeg (ROK),

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9. Wonsan airbase 505: 01_19 15_33
This layout is used only around the sea as it uses some COAST tiles

List of airbase using these 8 tiles in Korea:

Wonsan (DPRK)
Kadena (Japan)

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10. Osan airbase 545: 08_26
Available only in River (Grass) Tile set.

List of airbase using these 8 tiles in Korea: Osan (ROK)

11. Mirim AFB : 08_26

Available only in Farm Tile set.

List of airbase using these 6

tiles in Korea: Mirim (DPRK)

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12. Kimpo airbase : 14_32 L/R
Available only in Farm Tile set.

List of airbase using these 8 tiles in Korea: Kimpo (ROK)

13. Airstrips North - South: 18_36 Short runway

Available in forest, farm and River (grass) tile type

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14. Airstrips East - West: 09_27 Short runway
Available in forest, farm and River (grass) tile type

15. Suwon AFB: 16_34 L/R

Available only in Farm Tile set

List of airbase using these 9 tiles

in Korea: Suwon (ROK)

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15. Seoul AFB: 19_01 and 18_36
This layout is used only around cities as it uses some CITY tiles

List of airbase using these 10 tiles in Korea:

Seoul (ROK)

Note these 2 last tiles, they don’t seem to be part

of the airbase layout but still are names Hbase…

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16. Sunan: 16_34 and 18_36
Available only in Farm Tile set.

List of airbase using these 9 tiles in Korea:

Sunan (DPRK)

Note that how the centre tiles are repeated to

lengthen the layout. I estimate the tiles to be
repeated 6 times to allow enough spacing for the
2 runways.

Sunan layout is made out of 9 tiles.

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