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This section instructs you to automatically tile airbase background tiles and level them by using CATE. It very simple operation basically so listen up.

First you must export Airfields from Tacedit into a CSV file. Go to the Map View, then select the menu item View → View Objectives → None. Also I'm going with View → View Units → None. Then select one more time View → View Objectives → Airfields. Now zoom out to get ALL the airbases into the view screen. Then just use left mouse button to drag a box around ALL of the airbase objectives. Select Operation dialog pops up and click Export Viewed and save the list.

Okay now you got CSV file with airbases. Feed this baby to CATE dir (or where ever) and fire up CATE, select the airbase rules (more on this later I think), load theater.L2 file and select new L2 file which you want to save. Now click Read data which time it should take few seconds to load the stuff up (time is relative to theater size, rule complexity and your computer speed), then click Update data and CATE updates the L2 data in memory. After its done (takes another while) click Save data. Done.

The airbase coordinates comes from Tacedit exported CSV file, simple X/Y coordinate. In our example images we have marked the coordinate with X and the other airbase tiles with O's. Lets begin.

Airbase subtype 05_23 2 - Tiles: 736-742 (coord tile: 738).

 OO
XOO
OO

Airbase subtype 23_05 2 - wet farm tiles: 310-316 (coord tile: 312), HBASE3B 1-7. Note that Airbase subtype 05_23 2 is the same.

 OO
XOO
OO

Airbase subtype 23_05 2 - forest tiles: 630-636 (coord tile: 632).

 OO
XOO
OO

Airbase subtype 01_19 - tiles 624-629, HBASE3C A-F.

Airbase subtype 20_02 2 - tiles 950-955 (coord tile: 952). Note that 02_20 - is the same.

OO
XO
OO

Airbase subtype 20_02 - swamp tiles: 1200-1205 (coord tile: 1202), HBASE36 6-B.

OO
XO
OO

Airbase subtype 20_02 - forest tiles: 1488-1493 (coord tile: 1490), HBASE37 6-B.

OO
XO
OO

Airbase subtype 30_12 - tiles 1040-1045 (coord tile: 1041). Note that 12_30 is the same.

OXO
OOO

Airbase subtype 30_12 - forest tiles: 928-933 (coord tile: 932), HBASE34 0-5.

OOO
OXO

Airbase subtype 30_12 - swamp tiles: 1472-1477 (coord tile: 1473), HBASE33 0-5.

OXO
OOO

Airbase subtype 21_03 - tiles: 848-853 (coord tile: 850).

OO
XO
OO

Airbase subtype 34_16 2 - tiles: 1046-1051 (coord tile: 1048), HBASE35 6-B.

OO
XO
OO

Airbase subtype 34_16 - tiles: 1478-1483 (coord tile: 1480), HBASE33 6-B.

OO
XO
OO

Airbase subtype SUNAN - tiles: 1360-1368 (coord tile: 1364), HBASE57 1-F.

OOO
OXO
OOO

Airbase subtype 505 Wonsan - tiles: 1376-1383 (coord tile: 1378), HBASE50 0-7.

OO
XO
OO
OO

Airbase subtype 32_14 - wet farm tiles: 304-309 (coord tile: 306), HBASE3B A-F.

OO
XO
OO

Airbase subtype 32_14 - tiles: 743-748 (coord tile: 745), HBASE3A A-F.

OO
XO
OO

Airbase subtype 26_08 - tiles: 944-949 (coord tile: 944), HBASE38 0-5.

XOO
OOO

Airbase subtype 26_08 - wet farmland tiles: 1744-1749 (coord tile: 1744), HBASE39 0-5.

XOO
OOO

Airbase subtype KIMPO - tiles: 1632-1639 (coord tile: 1639), HBASE52 4-F.

OOO
 OOO
  OX

Airbase subtype Suwon AFB - tiles: 1712-1720 (coord tile: 1719), HBASE55 0-B.

OO
OO
OOO
 XO

Airbase subtype 545 Osan - tiles: 1728-1735 (coord tile: 1733), HBASE54 0-7.

OOOO
OXOO

Thats the list. Please remind me if I messed something up, which I probably did :)

And here is the Airbase 3D Objective images in game recon view. The airbase name string matches to Tacedit export/import csv format. First is the airbase name and then OCD ID

01_19 Airbase, 1772

02_20 Airbase, 1773

02_20 Airbase 2, 225

05_23 Airbase 2, 978

08_26 Airbase, 1774

11_29 Airbase, 1775

12_30 Airbase, 1776

20_02 Airbase, 1777

20_02 Airbase 2, 219

21_03 Airbase, 1778

23_05 Airbase 2, 1779

26_08 Airbase, 1780

30_12 Airbase, 1781

32_14 Airbase, 1782

34_16 Airbase, 1783

34_16 Airbase 2, 979

36_18 Airbase, 1784

505 Wonsan, 980

545 Osan, 216

GEN AFB, 1509

KIMPO, 1516

MIRIM AFB, 2065

SEOUL AFB, 1499

SUNAN, 1497

Sunan airbase is too big to fit into the Recon view even at 30000ft so its splitted to two images, the tacedit airbase string is SUNAN so here is the two images, north and south.

Suwon AFB, 1805

If you want to use these airbases in Tacedit after getting datas from Dem2Terrain CSV creation, just export the airbase list and edit the csv file with text editor, change the Airbase substrings and OCD ID's to your theater specifications.