Jim takes a moment to have a look at a really cool Saipan table using a mix of Bolt Action & Chain of Command for their rules.
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more please 😀
Be interesting to see the variety of battle fields
Super sorry, the day got away from us on this one. There is just so much to cover!
No problems.
I’m enjoying all the variety, getting a good flavour of the event
Awesome! 😀
Palms. I need more palms.
Thank you, oriskany, this was great. I allow myself to steal the idea of the log bunker. I´ll try to build one myself. Hai.
And what an idea idea to combine rulesets for several parts of the battle. You could take this even further. Blood Red Skies to fight out the degree of air superiority, Cruel Seas to determine the landing conditions and so on and so on.
I don´t know many Pacific aficionados in the area where I live, so this post was just like a jump into a warm bathtub of awesomeness.
And I need more palms.
Pacific is one of my favorite theaters of World War II. For the the Pacific and the Eastern Front pretty much run neck and neck.
@jemmy there is a very good tutorial by @lloyd that does a great job of showing you how to make palm trees – https://www.beastsofwar.com/dust-tactics/hobby-lab-palm-trees/ I have the templates printed out somewhere from when the tutorial was first published but I haven’t got round to making them yet!
I remember those palms, it was for a Dust Middle East table, I believe.
That is dedication…battery candles for burning wrecks! Our poor black poofs feel inadequate! The board looks great and I love the combination of game systems.
What a great looking table!
I’ve really been getting into a lot of research about landing craft. Cool to see more of it being used.
This table and the Sword Beach table had tons of great landing craft.
Lovely jungle table.
I loved those log bunkers.
Now, that’s what I am talking about 😉 Pacific!
Oh man, don’t get me started. 😀
Damn this one was really interesting thanks guys
Yeah, Saipan was one of the Marianas, of which Saipan, Tinian, and Guam were main islands attacked. Tinian would up serving as a huge air base for the beginning of the B-29 bombing effort on the Japanese home islands. The Enola Gay would launch from Tinian to drop the A-Bomb on Japan. So this battle literally leads (in part) to the end of the war.
The Irish battle of Saipan, The Irish Soccer captain Vs manager for the world cup, Manager won and captain went home.
Was that done in 28mm too? 😀 😀 😀
Nice to hear about some history I didn’t know about before.
Being from Britain, I know a lot about d-day but didn’t even know other fronts were pushing forward on the same day. Was there a reason why they coordinated like that despite being so far away from each other, or was it just coincidence that they happened at the same time?
@skodamarine – Pretty much coincidence. The Marianas invasion fleet sailed on June 5, 1944 (I said June 6 in the video, that was incorrect) the same time the C47s were taking off from England to drop paratroopers on Normandy. Actually with the time zone difference, the Marianas invasion was probably already at sea for half a day or so. The actual invasion of these islands hit on June 15 (remember, where Overlord had to sail over 60 miles of water, these guys sailed from Pearl Harbor Hawaii to the Marianas, THOUSANDS of miles of water).
Japanese-German coordination was practically non-existent (just look at the Germans at Moscow and the Japanese at Pearl Harbor in December 1941). So there was no real reason for the Americans to sail for Saipan at the same general time the Allies kicked off Overlord.