As User Rauling & Co are planing to make a 2006 DB for PCM12, I made a first mountain stage of this years TDF, namely the 17th Stage from Saint-Jean-de-Maurienne to Morzine which stage is very likely to the 16th stage of 2000. If I remember correctly it was Floyd Landis who landed an incredible (dope-)comeback after loosing a lot of time the day before.
So here's another Variant for the TDF in PCM12. I made this Fantasy-Tour actually for PCM11 a while ago, but converted it now to PCM12 and made a lot of improvements to the stages. Anyway, don't expect always one-to-one mountain-slopes, sometimes it was more important to me to get ridable constant slopes instead of trying to make the exactly profiles like in real life. Still I think this Variant is very playable and for you guys an opportunity of variety. So, I hope you will give it a shot and having fun while playing this Tour.
Till the Peleton will come to the flat Sprint in Metz, it has to climb 7 small hills which could bring a new leader in the King-of-the-Mountain-Classification and maybe a Breakaway-winner.
Even it's classified as a flat Stage, it will be constantly going up and down with 9 mountain-classifications in it. Either a Breakaway or a Sprinter with a decent climbing-skill will win this Stage.
The Peleton is leaving Germany and riding into the Vosges. Once passed the "Altenberg" the Contenders will battle on the slopes to the "Col de la Schlucht" and fight for the Stage-win in Gerardmer.
First mountain-Stage contains two serious climbs, on the one hand the Cormet de Roseland and on the other hand the Col de Madeleine. This will definitely seperate the wheat from the chaff, even it's a downhill-finish in the end.
Maybe the toughest Stage of the whole tour. 5 climbs, the Col du Telegraphe, Col du Galibier, Col d'Izoard, Col de Vars and the mountain-top-finish on the Col de la Bonette. Definitely payback-time for the Climbers.
The peleton leaves the Alps, but will have to ride over the Col d'Allos. After that its almost constantly downhill. Good for a breakaway or recuperating Sprinters. Btw, I'm happy the Game classified it as a flat stage, so you won't see any big attacks of the contenders at all.
The next day for the Contenders will bring the Peleton into the Pyrenees, namely the Col de Portet d'Aspet, Col de Mente and the finish to Port de Bales.
The last day in the pyrenees and a very tough mountain-stage as well. 5 Climbs and another mountain-top finish. But one by one: Col del Portillon - Col de Peyresourde - Col d'Azet - Col d'Aspin - and in the end: Col du Tourmalet.
Interesting Stage in my opinion. Two intermediate sprints and a nasty climb before the finish in San Sebastian. There are also very tight roads on the slopes to the mountain-classification. Maybe a good possibility for a tactical maneuver and a late attack to gain time on the rivals.
Last Stage before Paris and tradionally a Timetrial. With an short ascent containing up to 6-7% percentages this isn't a No-Brainer for the timetrail specialists. Due to this the climbers shouldn't loose that much time.
The route looks great, realistic imo Perhaps a bit sided for the TT-specialists, with only 4 mountain stages and 90 ITT + 50 TTT kms, but in numbers, it's not much different from this years Tour, so it's still realistic
Btw, if the last stage is the same as Cyanide's, then I guess there's no need to upload it again as yours
The route looks great, realistic imo Perhaps a bit sided for the TT-specialists, with only 4 mountain stages and 90 ITT + 50 TTT kms, but in numbers, it's not much different from this years Tour, so it's still realistic
Btw, if the last stage is the same as Cyanide's, then I guess there's no need to upload it again as yours
Thank you,
and you're right, faced with all these stages I wasn't thinking in that moment^^.
Thank you as well. I don't know his Pcmdaily-Nickname, but on the Pcmfrance-Community he called himself "Roman-Kreuziger". However, I already contacted him if he would be so kind to upload his stages to our Stage DB, so we have the full Dauphine 2003 variant.
Edited by bigggassi on 10-09-2012 16:59
but, Tour of suisse 2003 has 10 stages and the actual version only 9, so, is there any problem with the variant system? or the game will take only the first 9 stages for 2003 variant?
canojuancho wrote:
but, Tour of suisse 2003 has 10 stages and the actual version only 9, so, is there any problem with the variant system? or the game will take only the first 9 stages for 2003 variant?
Great job, and really fast as well 
