I remember in 1942 we did the Wake Island map which is still the best map ever made.
We had a large group on the Island as the Japanese, and a large group of players as Americans.
I think we had the max number of players.
We had a beach invasion happening with artillary support from the ships, while landing craft were getting creamed by Shore Batteries,
We had a dog fight happening in the air, while a Japanese plane buzzed in and gunned the Carrier. Meanwhile the Destroyer that had moved in shore with all guns manned moved back out to support the carrier and the fighter attacking the carrier was shot down by anti aircraft fire.
There were joke points and ambushes through the Island Snipers hiding on the hills going against each other and armor and transports pushing up the road towards the central base.
Meanwhile the american's on the beach were pinned down by fixed bunkers and they had to painfully clear them out.
About halfway through the battle the Japanese guys realized that they were getting cut down and retreated from the base into the tree lines and made life merry hell for the American's who had to move up hills to take them.
The battle lasted two hours.
It was a great experience flying in a American fighter, tipping over to look down and seeing about 4 or 5 battles happening at the same time with artillary explosions and seeing assualt boats crawling towards the beach full of troops.
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