Marine Corps

[RangerX3X]

After a long hiatus, the mod has been revamped and updated to version 2.0 status and is available for download here.

[BletchleyGeek]

Good to see this back [:)]

If you're finding trouble with the Map Maker, I'd gladly help you to trace the relief of this 1983 map of Saipan

http://www.lib.utexas.edu/maps/topo/pac ... saipan.jpg

and otherwise tweak Terrain types, etc. to get a good "Saipan Experience" based on less detailed maps.

For modeling the Japanese forces, I'd suggest you to look at COTA's Italian equipment - I think is the most similar thing we have modelled.

[RangerX3X]

Thanks for the offer of assistance. [:)]

Some of the scenarios I am designing now are simply using an alternative history premise (Germany defeated the Soviet Union and is now moving on China, the year is 1947 and the Marines are re-tasked to Europe after the surrender of Japan), however I would like to get back to the original intent of the mod, that being Pacific Theater operations and real battles.

I would love any assistance regarding mapping the terrain that would have been fought on, so please any assistance you can offer with islands such as Saipan would be greatly appreciated (and due credit given as well, of course). [:)]

[&o]

[BletchleyGeek]

Sure. The MapMaker might look intimidating, but once goes through a 'baptism of fire' becomes fairly easy to move around. When I sort out the bitmap underlay and the scale, I'll be PM'in you.

Cheers,

[bluth]

Oh perfect, I really wanted a Command Ops : Pacific ! Thanks I really can't wait for your mod ranger !
But there is some specificity of the pacific combat like the japanese doctrine for combat who was different than the american one or the supply situation, can they be modded accuratly ?
Anyway just a pacific map and some japanese unit would be awesome !

[RangerX3X]

There are several people involved with this effort now, just not myself (I will credit them openly if they do not object).

We can do our best to provide a believable Pacific Theater combat experience within the confines of the current game engine, but there will be some deviation from real life (to be expected, I would believe).

My hope is deliver something more than simply a token Japanese infantryman that is nothing more than an Axis soldier re-skinned standing on a cropped version of some stock map trying to make believe it is Iwo Jima when in fact it is some Kraut holding a Kar-98 standing on a patch of ground near Oosterbeek.

[RangerX3X]

My apologies for the missing images in the posts from last year: they were hosted on my ISP where I no longer have that account so they went poof!

[RangerX3X]

It is ugly but functional I believe...



PACOPS Status Update

[ChrisMaiorana]

Awesome Ranger.