The battle you would most like to see represented in RS

[Trendkill]

7. The epic night Banzai charge on Saipan beach-head (largest banzai attack of war)

The Japanese launched a tank-supported counter-attack on the first night of the battle, the famous banzai charge was nearly a month later near the end of the battle. Both would be interesting map scenarios.

A lot of good suggestions I think.

 

[HEERDT]

My wish list

1. Edson's Ridge (Guadalcanal)
2. Tulagi village
3. Tarawa
6. Shuri Line (Okinawa)
7. The epic night Banzai charge on Saipan beach-head (largest banzai attack of war)
8. Milne Bay (Aussies vs Japanese)
9. Buna (New Guinea)
10. Pelilau airfield (light armor on both sides)
11. Gemencheh Bridge (Imperial Guard vs Brits in Malaya)
12. Seige at Imphal
13. Coconut Grove (Bougainville)
14. Manilla (late wra urban combat)
15. Masacre Bay (Aleutian is. campaign)

fantastic list, lets add bloody nose ridge on pelieliu as well. I Think the majority of this list well represents the battles most would like to see from a historical point.

 

[Colt .45 killer]

why not make each island a "campaign" starting with whatever form of assault was used to breach the defences ( ususaly beach landing ) then going from there to the fights to capture said island. Breaking up each battle into a decent sized maps as necessary.

 

[Xendance]

why not make each island a "campaign" starting with whatever form of assault was used to breach the defences ( ususaly beach landing ) then going from there to the fights to capture said island. Breaking up each battle into a decent sized maps as necessary.

Because we don't have the manpower to do so many maps of islands

 

[Colt .45 killer]

Because we don't have the manpower to do so many maps of islands

Well I wasn't suggesting doing all islands as campaigns, or having all campaigns ready for release. Were you to do even one campaign island I would imagine the community might make a few more after release...

( there is also scalability on how long / large you want a campaign to be, figured you would want to have one campaign ready for release)

 

[RedWarrior]

Guadalcanal with the eerie night. Peleliu with the gruesome beach assault. Okinawa with the rain and mud.

 

[echutter]

Guadalcanal - Some good jungle action.
Sulfur Island - Can't forget this map, it is a must.
British Common Wealth in Singapore - It is unique, not portrayed in any games that I know of.

Those are my top 3.

Some battles in the Philippines would be nice too.

Men of War: Assault Squad has the japanese campaign along the Soviet front, American, and has a battle in Singapore for the UK

 

[S/Sgt. Raider]

From most to least:

Guadalcanal
Tarawa
Random Burma Battle (Brits)
Phillipines
Okinawa
Iwo Jima
Pelileu

I'd like to see these all implemented, but most of all Guadal'.

 

[Stephen]

Imphal, without doubt.

 

[OnbekendeSoldaat]

is it possible to make map a whole island? like iwo jima is 1 map and okinawa ...

 

[=GG= Mr Moe]

Maybe Iwo, but Okinawa is suppossed to be over 400 square miles big.

 

[Nestor Makhno]

Okinawa, more so than most other 'battles' of the Pacific theatre was a long series of engagements - some of them very significant

 

[Nylle]

I'd like to see the airfield on Peleliu.
Peleliu... where the old breed was wiped out

 

[timur]

personally, both as a minor pocket historian and as a casual player, I'd love to see some more unique engagements that are often not portrayed. The Aluetians, Burma, Singapore, Manilla, Phillipine engagements (less so on the last 2, as some games portray them, but they still stand); these are all interesting and unique additions. People aren't always looking for brand names, and it often is advantagous to expand a little.

 

[Nylle]

Werry true timur!
The big well known ones acaly fit better for general games. But the unknown ones, thats where RO comes in!

 

[Stephen]

@Timur

Agreed (notice my above submission) but these battles would involve Commonwealth forces. Perhaps they will be added as a faction further down the line (though I doubt it) but as we only have the Japanese and Americans to begin with it will be difficult to go with those ideas.

 

[timur]

@Timur

Agreed (notice my above submission) but these battles would involve Commonwealth forces. Perhaps they will be added as a faction further down the line (though I doubt it) but as we only have the Japanese and Americans to begin with it will be difficult to go with those ideas.

The Aluetians and Phillipines/Manilla are still possible without bringing in commonwealth forces. If the commonwealth IS brought in at some time, however, that opens up a very large number of possible engagements that would be very interesting.

Also, I know its been brought up many times before, but if the RO-vanilla Russians could be brought in theoretically, than Manchuria would be a very unique scenario!

 

[Frostedfire]

The Aluetians and Phillipines/Manilla are still possible without bringing in commonwealth forces. If the commonwealth IS brought in at some time, however, that opens up a very large number of possible engagements that would be very interesting.

Also, I know its been brought up many times before, but if the RO-vanilla Russians could be brought in theoretically, than Manchuria would be a very unique scenario!

and room for modding --> the chinese could mod in their own campaigns vs the japanese too

 

[timur]

and room for modding --> the chinese could mod in their own campaigns vs the japanese too

oh, the possibilities that are opened by having a mod team equiped with an SDK in advance...
Mods on mods have often come far, far too late, but with all these pre-release mods, many oppurtunities are opened. A Chinese faction, for example, or the Commonwealth if RS decides not to later add one. So many posibilities all around!

 

[Trendkill]

Not to discredit the actual events and men who fought there but the sort of 'over-exposure' of the island hopping campaign in the Pacific Ocean theatre makes me more interested to see maps based on battles of the Phillipines or New Guinea campaigns, or maybe other even less known engagements.

The battle for Manila for example being one of the relatively few urban battles fought between the Japanese and US.

It's all chatter anyway, I'm just really excited about this game.