About This File
Midway, North Pacific Terrains
February 13th, 2026 (1st Release)
by Menrva
>For Strike Fighters 2: Vietnam, Recommended Full-5 Merged
This package offers two previously unreleased high quality recreations of Midway Atoll in two versions, 1942 during World War II's Battle of Midway and 1969-1993 during the Cold War. I started work on the Cold War version sometime in 2018 while the World War II version was conceived during 2024. Textures for the Cold War version of the islands were recreated from satellite imagery thanks to Google Earth, while the WWII version of Midway's Sand Island was recreated by hand, using recovered photos from the era. Both terrains also feature Kure Atoll and Pearl & Hermes Atoll in their Real World scale, but keep in mind that both are identical between the WWII and Cold War versions. Someday I'll properly retexture Kure's Green Island and Midway's Eastern Island so that they are more correct for the World War II time period.
These terrains have been collecting dust on my HDD for so long and I never had the chance to properly finish them. I decided to release them on my 31st birthday, in the hopes that I'll get back to modding Strike Fighters 2 at some point despite a busier Real Life, and that they get the interest of other modders willing to help me in properly finishing them. The terrains currently are barren, they lack buildings and proper runway 3d models, while TOD trees only exist for Sand Island and better placement and texture work could be done with those. I demand that these terrains are NOT rereleased elsewhere nor are included in other mod packages without my explicit permission; that's all I ask for, for what required a huge amount of work and research by yours truly.
The WWII version is clearly designed for the 1942 Battle of Midway; currently we lack several ships and aircraft for it, so as a safe measure only the Recon mission type is allowed, other mission types can make the game crash if the end-user does not have aircraft and ships required by specific countries and mission types.
The Cold War version spans from 1969 to 1993; it's meant for fictional clashes between Red forces (namely Russia and China) and all of the American services (USAF, USN and USMC). More mission types are allowed in this version, but make sure to also have Strike Fighters 2: North Atlantic installed, since its ships are required for the automatically generated naval fleets. Also, Off Map Airbases have been added and long range AI flights can be generated from them.
>Credits (in no particular order):
-Stary, for the hi-res tree textures borrowed from one of his many great terrain tilesets.
-gerwin, whose TFDtool has proved to be essential in today's terrain making.
-mue, for the tools he made for SF2 modding.
-Gepard, for his great tutorials about terrain making, in the SF1 Knowledge Base at CombatACE. It's a gold mine!
-krfrge, who has produced a tutorial for recreating SF2-like planning maps, which prompted me to work on templates and my own high quality planning maps. Thank you very much!
-My girlfriend, for supporting me in all of my endeavors.
>Disclaimer:
This is a freeware; yet it can be redistributed ONLY in other CombatACE mods/mod packages.
Any changes to the terrain package's files and/or any copy-and-paste attempts of their contents are NOT authorized if you plan to release them in other mods. But permission might be granted to those who request it to me at CombatACE.
This terrain may NOT in any way, shape or form be used in any payware additions.
