Le Franc Tireur 16

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