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RE: Saipan 1944 - vince hughes - 10-06-2012
I'd like to have seen the silk worm that was able to provide enough thread for a parachute.
They must have been gargantuan to poop those out ?
RE: Saipan 1944 - JayTownsend - 10-06-2012
(10-05-2012, 11:50 PM)larry marak Wrote: Speaking of Nihon Silk, which I'm hoping to see any week now, I wonder if unused Japanese parachutes met the same fate after the war that American parachutes received. There were vast numbers of parachutes surplused out after the war to the clothing industry. During the 50's my mother made pants for me and my 3 brothers and used parachute material to make the pockets. I used to jump around and pull inside out my pockets to show I was parachute jumping in 1955.
Looking forward to a massive increase in SNLF and IJA counters in my gaming library soon.
I think I jumped with one of those WWII leftovers back in the 1980's, as it didn't work very well and gave me a Maywest but for some reason I was able to untwist it before attempting a reserve parachute, if that wasn't enough, it was windy and I landed in a burning field! Morale of the story, never jump out a perfectly good plane!
I don't believe the PG HQ Library can add new unit types until Andrew updates the library. I mean look at KSF, all the newer units still don't show up on it.
Sorry way off subject. Now back to Saipan!!!!!!
RE: Saipan 1944 - JayTownsend - 10-06-2012
Back on track again!
Out of the 40 scenarios I would only rate 4 as large, being over a 100 counters and the other 36 scenarios as medium to small. The smallest being 12 counters and the largest being 158 counters, so all scenario will be very playable, even the four large ones. A few scenarios are 4 maps but most are 1-2 maps.
I hope that help?
RE: Saipan 1944 - J6A - 10-06-2012
Since I bought the PnP Nihon Silk about 2 weeks before the counter version was announced, I'm going to see if an extra NS counter sheet fell off the truck at VPG.
RE: Saipan 1944 - JayTownsend - 10-08-2012
[attachment=193]Just because it's cool looking!
RE: Saipan 1944 - JayTownsend - 10-09-2012
Kind of interesting!
Battle of Saipan Videos:
Operation Forager part 1
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F0dWDG15jzM&feature=relmfu
Operation Forager part 2
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=562VMCVY9X8&feature=relmfu
Operation Forager part 3
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sOZXxbIYmd4&feature=relmfu
RE: Saipan 1944 - JayTownsend - 10-09-2012
[attachment=194]The LTVs had very weak armor and only stopped rifle and machine gun fire at best, anything larger went right in!
RE: Saipan 1944 - JayTownsend - 10-09-2012
[attachment=195]Another burned out Sherman Tank!
RE: Saipan 1944 - JayTownsend - 10-09-2012
[attachment=196]City life on Saipan wasn't for good in 1944 either!
RE: Saipan 1944 - JayTownsend - 10-09-2012
[attachment=197]One of those captured Japanese 25mm AA guns.