{"id":13011,"date":"2022-03-12T11:30:23","date_gmt":"2022-03-12T11:30:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bucksurdu.com\/bucksblog\/?p=13011"},"modified":"2022-03-12T11:30:23","modified_gmt":"2022-03-12T11:30:23","slug":"reading-up-on-the-philippines","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bucksurdu.com\/bucksblog\/2022\/03\/12\/reading-up-on-the-philippines\/","title":{"rendered":"Reading Up on the Philippines"},"content":{"rendered":"

I am interested in the Philippines in the early part of WWII. \u00a0I commissioned Steve Barber to sculpt some figures for the period to supplement the between-the-wars figures from Pulp Figures. \u00a0I have also recently ordered the Philippine scouts from Brigade Games. \u00a0Now I am in search of historical rather than “typical” scenarios. \u00a0To that end, I found a bunch of good books that have arrived. \u00a0Like when I became interested in the Mexican-American War, I will binge read bout this period. \u00a0I hope to find enough scenarios to make a good scenario supplement for Combat Patrol(R). \u00a0I am sure there are more, but here are the ones in my reading queue. \u00a0I am hoping they provide a source of scenarios for Bataan before the surrender as well as the guerrilla war. \u00a0I didn’t realize there were so many guerrilla commanders in the Philippines or how many of them went on to be founding member of US Army Special Forces.\"\" \"\" \"\" \"\"\"\"<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I am interested in the Philippines in the early part of WWII. \u00a0I commissioned Steve Barber to sculpt some figures for the period to supplement the between-the-wars figures from Pulp Figures. \u00a0I have also recently ordered the Philippine scouts from Brigade Games. \u00a0Now I am in search of historical rather than “typical” scenarios. \u00a0To that … Continue reading Reading Up on the Philippines<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":13012,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[2,4],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bucksurdu.com\/bucksblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13011"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bucksurdu.com\/bucksblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bucksurdu.com\/bucksblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bucksurdu.com\/bucksblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bucksurdu.com\/bucksblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13011"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.bucksurdu.com\/bucksblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13011\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13017,"href":"https:\/\/www.bucksurdu.com\/bucksblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13011\/revisions\/13017"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bucksurdu.com\/bucksblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13012"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bucksurdu.com\/bucksblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13011"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bucksurdu.com\/bucksblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13011"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bucksurdu.com\/bucksblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13011"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}