LFT # 12 has been out of print for many years now. The demand was steadily growing for a reprint, or, at least, for us to return to the Pacific. After LFT # 15’s success with its DTO boards, widening the Desert “Lybian” experience to a real full Desert Theater of Operations that includes the Mediterranean basin, we thought it was a great time to plunge back into the PTO. So here is LFT # 16 !
Contents
– Editor’s Foreword
– 10 questions to Olli
– Tiger Meet 2022 : The Last Bid + Men of Steel
– Tiger Meet 2023
– The Forgotten Blitzkrieg
– Japanese Tank Division 1942
– ASL humor
– A Mediocre Dragon
– "Bambrush ?"
– PTO Basics *
– LFT maps artwork
– LC Charts
– Japanese MMC Chart
– Defending in Japanese scenarios
– Sons of Beaches *
– Seaborne Assaults *
– Sims Ridge *
– Bibliography
The four * articles are updated LFT 12 articles.
80 pages in English.
The Scenarios
| ID | Name | Nations | Date |
|---|---|---|---|
| LFT327 | Thai Beaches | Thai / Japanese | 8 December 1941 |
| LFT328 | Punjabi Tenacity | Punjabi / Japanese | 25 December 1941 |
| LFT329 | Gaining Time at Baliuag | Japanese / US | 31 December 1941 |
| LFT330 | Quinauan Point | Japanese / Filipino | 2 February 1942 |
| LFT331 | Rescuing the Pocket | Filipino - Japanese | 12 February 1942 |
| LFT332 | Point of Departure | Filipino / Japanese | 12 February 1942 |
| LFT333 | Goodenough ? | Japanese - New Zealand | 23 October 1942 |
| LFT334 | Cpl. Anzac | Japanese - New Zealand | 17 February 1944 |
| LFT335 | Infuriatingly Invisible | Japanese - New Zealand | 20 February 1944 |
| LFT336 | Fourteen Paddles | Japanese - New Zealand | 23 February 1944 |
| LFT337 | Not So Ichi-Go | Chinese - Japanese | 5 May 1944 |
| LFT338 | RJ-177 | Japanese - USMC | 3 August 1944 |
| LFT339 | Zig Zag Pass | Japanese - US | 1 February 1945 |
| LFT340 | Spring Cleaning | Japanese & Vietminh - French | 3 April 1946 |
| LFT341 | Harvesting Opium | French - Chinese | 6 April 1946 : |
The scenario designers are, in no particular order :
– Laurent Closier
– Lionel Colin
– Robert Hammond
– Philippe Naud
– Steve Swann
– Xavier Vitry
The maps needed to play the scenarios are the following : Hz 1, LFT 1, LFT 2, 9, 34, 35, 36, 37, 38, 43, 62, 67, 72, 76 and 88.
The maps
12 PTO maps, with Light and Dense Jungle :
7 sheets of PTO Overlays :
Errata
LFT329 Gaining Time at Baliuag :
The scenario card shows a M3A1 tank : it should be the M3 version.
LFT330| Quinauan Point :
The scenario card shows a M3A1 tank : it should be the M3 version.
