PACOPS – Pacific Theater Operations

[RangerX3X]

The PACOPS team is building the foundation to reflect historical World War II Pacific Theater land combat operations in the Command Ops engine.

Since team members are located in the US, the initial land combat operations will be focused on the Third and Fifth Fleet – supported US Marine Corps / US Army counter attack in the Central Pacific.

The initial scenario design will focus on the invasion of Saipan in the Marianas Islands. In 1944 securing Saipan was considered necessary to protect secure US Navy supply routes from Japanese fleet interdiction, and to serve as the location for first bomber base for B-29 strategic bombing of the Japanese mainland.

Initial products include a conversion of a basic topographical map of Saipan with MapMaker, and the Marine Corps order of battle for the initial invasion, and the Japanese Imperial Army and Japanese Imperial Navy ground defense forces defending the island with the Estab editor.

Release of the final Saipan scenario is planned for summer next year.

[RangerX3X]

Work continues on several fronts, with the modeling of ammunition, weapons, vehicles and units:

Type 99 Arisaka Rifle
Type 38 Arisaka Rifle
Type 89 Grenade Discharger
Type 97 Chi-Ha Medium Tank
9th Armored Regiment
V Marine Amphibious Corps HQ

A map of Saipan is being created by Jim Carravallah and is moving along quite nicely:



Merry Christmas and Happy New Year!!

[budd]

WOW.... good luck in your endeavor....keep us posted, and thanks for the effort. The more command ops the better[:D]

[dazkaz15]

Wow awesome [&o]
Love the map

[RangerX3X]

Additional units have been added:

Type 95 Ha-Go Light Tank
Type 97 Chi-Ha Medium Tank (47mm upgrade version)
Type 89 15cm Cannon

Additional work has been done to further polish the map of Saipan, created by Jim Carravallah:



Full size image is available here.

[RangerX3X]

Type 93 Flamethrower
Type 94 37mm Anti-Tank Gun

Additional work is being done by Jim to research accurate OOB’s for the various engagements we intend to represnt in the mod (the first being the Battle of Saipan).

[rickier65]

I'm looking forward to seeing this.

And by the way, that's a nice project page you've set up.

Thanks
Rick

[dazkaz15]

Yeah, your website looks great too [&o]

[RangerX3X]

ORIGINAL: Rick


I'm looking forward to seeing this.

And by the way, that's a nice project page you've set up.

Thanks
Rick

ORIGINAL: dazkaz15

Yeah, your website looks great too [&o]

Thank you both very much.

[Todake]

hey,

hope this projekt is still activ... cant await until it will be done.

[RangerX3X]

Hello Todake,

Thank you for your interest in this project.

The mod is still active with a great deal of recent work having been done by Jim Carravallah. I have some work to put in as well after a brief period of inactivity (real life stuff) and hope to have some updates to post here as well as on the PACOPS dedicated blog.

Please check back soon for an update.

[Todake]

hey, im not so familiar in reworking or modding such a game, but im intersted in doing that, maybe in near future.
im still thinking of, if there is a way to make the map look much more realistical then the map editor is able to.
i thought about real images\photos from top down,...is this possible to do so?

2)realy nice work as i said before,.... hope you will be making much more then only one szenario...

[Todake]

ps: maybe you need for other projekt anyone whos willing to learn to help you in some cases to make a mod faster or better going on!?
maybe someone whos investigating battle plans, order-structures, or maybe whos drawing a map correctly.

[ChrisMaiorana]

Looking forward to it!