timerover51
Deity
I am working with the Storm Over the Pacific scenario, and I have a problem with one of the Tech advances. Airborne Warfare, allowing parachute troops, is listed as a 1945+ advance and is at the end of an advance chain. The problem is that Japan used a small number of parachute troops during the invasion of the Netherlands East Indies in early 1942, while the Allies were conducting large-scale parachute drops in 1943 and 1944. One of the most dramatic drops, in my view, of the entire war was the dropping of the 503d Parachute Regimental Combat Team on Corregidor Island in Manila Bay. That was in February of 1945. For
an account of that attack, see here: http://www.ibiblio.org/hyperwar/USA/USA-P-Triumph/USA-P-Triumph-18.html
What I would like to do is move that advance to 1942, so as to allow for much earlier use of parachute drops, but I am not sure what effects this would have on the 1942 advances. Help would be greatly appreciated, as I have never tried this before.
an account of that attack, see here: http://www.ibiblio.org/hyperwar/USA/USA-P-Triumph/USA-P-Triumph-18.html
What I would like to do is move that advance to 1942, so as to allow for much earlier use of parachute drops, but I am not sure what effects this would have on the 1942 advances. Help would be greatly appreciated, as I have never tried this before.