Exploring New Free Marianas Map & Learning The History | DCS WORLD 

Interesting Cap I didn't get a notification this time. Has RU-vid changed anything Go Gary Go, Goooooooooo Gary...

The air strip you all took off from initially was the old Japanese airfield, now call Orote Air Field. It hasn't been in service since '46.

Waiting for Cap to do an exploration of the Mariana Trench. In a plane.

The search for Frederick AFB shall forever continue on...

the scenery reminds me of 'Test Drive Unlimited', driving round Oahu in an open top Lamborghini listening to Alpinestars 'Carbon Kid'

Just took a stroll on this map , loving it so far. Great potential for grand scale carrier battles

Good Morning Grimm Reapers. I'll be your Officially unrecognized Tour Guide of Guam ... Ya'll took off from an old Japanese airfield, on Orote Point, left over from WWII onboard Naval Station Guam. Don't know if it's still there but there used to be a wrecked F4U Corsair and some Quonset Huts on the NE end of the runway. We did FEX's (Field Exercises) out there ... (6:14) That is a look at one of the landing beach's from WWII, near the villages of Santa Rita and Agat ... (7:04) The Lake in the jungle is Fena Lake ... (7:34) Where you took the left turn to look at the lake you were just about above Mount Lamlam, the highest point on Guam with 3 crosses on top of it. I climbed up there back in about '87-'89, it's covered in Sword Grass ... (8:04) Guam's National Wildlife Refuge, contains the only wild heard of Water Buffalo (Locals call 'em Carabo) left on the island, they shit everywhere ... (8:27) The "Old Hangers" by Fena Lake, are actually earthen explosives bunkers, part of the Naval Magazine area, yeah they store bombs out there and have the explosives range out there as well. Fought a wildfire out there back in jeeze '87-'89? It was small, but a fire in the Mag Area is never good! ... (9:36) "Little Reef" is the Glass break water, protecting Apra Harbor, also known as the outer harbor ... (10:22) The tank farm (seen to the left) caught on fire during Super Typhoon Pongsona, Dec '97. I believe 6 of the tanks burned and they held the entire islands fuel supply, yeah, it sucked for awhile ... (10:27) National Historical Park is also a landing beach from WWII, on Asan Beach. Close by are the Piti Bomb Holes (Spoiler Alert, they are not "real" bomb holes) ... (11:22) Yes, there is a small scale version of the Statue of Liberty, it is in Paseo De Susana Park. Also home to Chamorro Village, huge tourist destination and Great BBQ. Not shown is the Paseo Baseball Park ... (14:05) To the left is the old Naval Air Station Guam, now de-commissioned and turned over to GovGuam ... ( 22:32) "What's that?" Glad you asked. It's the Naval Communications Telecommunications Station Guam and Double Reef Beach or Haputo Beach, home of Tweeds Cave. Navy guy who escaped capture by the Japanese during their invasion. He was aided by a local Chamorro family and survived the war. Good story about survival, research it ... (23:25) What's Anderson Air Force Base used for? Bunch of bombers deployed there, I've seen B52's, B1's and B2's. Yesteryear, bombing runs into Vietnam and today into Afghanistan. I think there is a Navy Heavy Lift helo squadron and Coast Guard air assets as well. Also used to keep South Korea "In Check." ... (23:40) Big drop down to The

Great video, and the idea of mixing it with some history bits is great. Enjoyable and educative at the same time. Keep it up bois!

Cap now you guys have to recreate those long missions those guys in the mustangs flew to escort the b29’s when they bombed the Japanese mainland. Basically you have to fly for 8 hours (that’s how long the missions were). Pretty please with sugar on top

12:45 RC: “There are a lot of Americans on Guam” 🤔Same on the Northern Marianas, Puerto Rico, American Samoa, US Virgin Islands etc. They are all US citizens by birth.

10:40 that was a pretty smooth product placement lol

ED really did a great job finding the only 1000km x 1000km region of the world with roughly 10 square meters of land to model a free map for. Seriously did they really need to make that much ocean if there is NOTHING there at all? At least we can do some island scenarios on a free map. Or we could if the frame rate wouldn't be abysmal even on decent hardware.

Ohhhh yes. Anyone trying to make an ocean based mission will be thrilled. It was four days ago I made a naval action in the middle of the Black Sea, to simulate an ocean battle. I did learn that it takes 92 Harpoon missiles to get through that defense. 6 flights of Hornets.

"Todays challenge is to get all the Reapers to take off...." Sounds reasonable... oh there's more!

Saipan is my favourite island. A good place for a very rich CSAT equivalent if DCS would make it.

@1:31 That old airfield to the north on Guam is now the newly commissioned Camp Blaz Marine Corps Base. It was activated on October 1st 2020. Still has that new car smell, if you don't mind the brown tree snakes or the homicidal birds.

Big "golf balls" at 22:33 are part of the Naval Computing and Telecommunications System. They protect big satellite communications dishes from severe weather. We have similar domes (for a different reason) near where I live.

The Golf Ball domes are communication stations. That part of the island was a Navy base known as NAVCAMS (Navel Communication Area Master Station). All communications to US warships in the Pacific flowed thru NAVCAMS on Guam. I was stationed there from 91-92 as part of Marine Barracks, Security Forces, Marianas Islands. We provided security for NAVCAMS and the Navel Magazines further south. Those bases were closed in '92 due to base realignment and force reduction after the Gulf war

So cool since I grew up in Rota and spent some time in Saipan. Now I play DCS and everything I know irl helps with the map 😂👌

The Japanese civilians had been told by the Japanese army that the Americans would eat them and so to avoid being eaten they threw themselves off of cliffs rather than be taken. The army had told them this in an attempt to get them to fight but by the time of the suicides, most of the men had already been killed during to invasion so the ones left alive were women and children. To save their children from being eaten, mothers threw them over the cliffs and then followed them.

"The stealth bomber currently crashed"??? That was like 10 years ago! lmfao.

@ 7:54 that's what we on Guam called Naval Mag. They're actually old bunkers. They're all over Guam. There is no solar farm on Guam, we have one single wind turbine that never works. @ 22:18 I can see my subdivision out Cap's window.

It (A.B. Won Pat International Airport) used to be called Naval Air Station Agana and the Guam International Airport. It was penciled into the July 1993 BRAC Commission at the last minute by the Guam Senator who was on the committee.

Grim Reapers HQ! Que up the Austin Powers Dr. Evil intro music. Who doesn't need an evil lair on an evil island?

It's like a field of dreams.... If you build it they will come!!! 😉

New Subscriber to your channel. I ran across you by complete accident. But Ive been watching these videos for a few days and I am greatly entertained. Thank you.

You missed an island. The small bombing range. Most northly of the all.

I have photos of that German jet propelled flying wing , in pieces, at the Smithsonian

Those aren’t hangers, I believe they’re quonset huts. While it’s possible to use them as hangers for a single piston engine fighter, they were typically used as barracks.

Are these antennas the reason why a mobile reactor is deployed there? 500 kilowatts EACH?

Absolutely the best map yet from ED for air to air refueling!

a little cool thing about this map: theres a field of solar panels, and you can destroy them individually. it causes crazy framerate drops tho, kinda funny

THIS COULD BE PERFECT FOR WW2 PACIFIC MISSIONS AND THE UPCOMING F4U Corsair!

There is a Statue of Liberty in the Susquehanna River in Pennsylvania!

It’s Naval Mag. A navy base where they store ammo etc

How many Reapers are going to take unwanted and sudden dives into the trench? If you find a giant shark initiate self destruct.

The weird takeoff base is the current US Naval station at Guam

Nice event! Really liked the Wiki narrative as you guys flew by the sights. I see a tour guide or two in your futures.

Hey someone's got my skin on...you... 🤣 That was great thx Cap!

14:41 DONT blink

14:41 that scared the bollocks out of me

you can see the sea!

Since the land is so small, I hope the map is not heavy on GBs.

There used to be a wrecked B-52 in between the end of the runways on Andersen and one of the roads on base. It got wrecked in a storm and they just shoved it off with a dozer or something and left it. Wonder if that shows up.

You do an exploration thing like this but in mfs2020, but instead of 1 area, just do the whole world in 1 sitting.......

+Grim Reapers 4:04 😆the Reapers missed the opportunity to do that scene from Area 88 in DCS where the harrier flexes on everybody who was stuck in the queue by doing a vtol takeoff; would have been cool to see.

Great Vid, I was instantly on here watching because i currently live on the island of Saipan. The game has recreated it very accurately. The little island you were talking about moving Reaper HQ to is named Managaha pronounced Man-ya-ga-ha. it's a resort beach twice as beautiful in real life. The place you called Pizza Hut aka Saipan International Airport was also recreated very accurately in that the 6 Jetways are missing from the departure terminal just as they are in real life, that is because they were completely ripped off of the terminal building by Typhoon Yutu. Great Map , I'll be flying over my house in no time. By the way, the pizza way out here isn't bad at all. it is better than Papa John's

10:45 'And now a word from our sponsors...'

Assuming DCS gets around to adding WW II aircraft carriers and some of the naval planes from that era (the F6F Hellcat comes immediately to mind), you could do a great mission as the Grim Reapers - the name of the fighter squadron from the USS Enterprise, CV-6.

Did a Huey tour of Tinian and Saipan. Hope those Marines appreciate how many golf courses they liberated.

I must say, although I hate Razbam like a bad hang over, the Harrier is one of sexiest planes out there. I don't even have a historical connection to it really, I just love A-G jets with quirks and bubble canopies :) Cant WAIT to fly it over these beautiful islands in VR. ALSO, and Im not being a schmooozer because I dont even watch GR very often but... The Orion is the best HOTAS for the money hands down. Virpil is a competitor for sure but winwing has better value at the moment. Absolutely stoked that I can bolt on a collective and learn how to fly whirly birds properly without rebuilding my setup

@ 22:15 - That is exactly what she said.

the performance of the map is crap. as DCS is since 2.7. Eye-candy only. Performance nowhere. DCS is what BIGNEWY said: a DEAD END.

Is the statue on Two Lovers Point restored on this map ? Real world you could easily see this from a WW2 aircraft today.

5:11 feel or no feel

Lovely tour

The field you first took off of isn’t just a patch of concrete. Check it out here: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orote_Field?wprov=sfti1

I’m so excited to play on this map. Love the videos and keep it up Cap!

Would like to see GR scenic tours of the other maps LOL

Looks really good. I did some flying around tinian island and got pretty bad performance at 2k with everything on lowest setting XD. Was hoping it would be better than other maps do to it being mostly water, but i was wrong. I can at least get ok performance at 1080p with everything on minimum(decent enough for me to want to come back). But hey, isnt the vulcan api update around the corner?

...after looking at this map, I wish I had a float plane in DCS even more badly! Vought OS2U Kingfisher WW2 floatplane in DCS please please please!!! :D

Map looks awesome, little heavy for my potato though :) Is there a reason Marianas doesn't work in quick mission build? I am only able to play it in mission editor.

Baseball.

How is CAP able to run his engine so high for so long without it seizing? EDIT: He had both rads wide open?

C'mon over to Guam Cap.. anytime. Check out Larry Hillbloom, founder of DHL ... he had a mansion on Saipan.

Thank you for this. I have a technical question: I can see the map and chose it, but can not fly the Su25 or P51 on the map. Free Flight will not give an option to fly on the Marianas map. Nor does any Create Mission allow me to fly on it. Do I need to buy another airplane or a mission or any other DLC to fly on it? Steam edition. Thank you

Hey Cap, I was wondering how did you manage to spawn all those aircrafts on that runway at 0:47 with no spawn points. I've been trying to create missions where you have to takeoff from those unused airstrips and I just can't get around to it

Whistler, no! Golf is a great sport.

yo cap as i clicked on a video i got a 30 min video from you but as a advertisment

The golf ball things spread around look like "RAF" Menwith Hill near Harrogate in Yorkshire. Similar to the old "RAF" Fylingdales in the North Yorkshire Moors, once three massive golf balls now replaced by an enigmatic pyramid standing proud in an otherwise barren moorland landscape. All in reality strategic US ballistic missile defence and covert communications interception bases. For a Cap bonus point they are technically geodesic domes if you should ever need to test their structural integrity with some high explosive delivered from on high.

grim you hiring new inexperienced pilots

I can’t wait for these guys to invite me to their streams lol I’m the token good fighter pilot with NO piloting verbiage 😂😂

Thanks Cap always got the goods

I can't figure out how to get this map... It doesn't show up on my installation and when i can find the Steam page for the map, it doesn't have an install button. Any clues?

Did Cap do a Harrison Ford landing? lol

I don't see this as an option as of yet on my DCS World. Where do I go to download this map

How do I get the map? I'm new at DCS. I have "World" and "Open Beta" installed. Thank you.

So amazing looking! Thank you for the video tour!

"it must pick up so many emissions" Cap, do you think of what you say before you speak?

I’m dissapointed non of the harriers did a vtol take off

What's the bell like structure on left side of mustang's cockpit?

im gutted. i clicked download from steam. it now says its in my library but not showing in the dcs beta. how can i reinstall it? im new to dcs. so any help would be appreciated

Sigh… they are radar all of them. Being an Astronomer I’m sure they aren’t telescopes 😘

i need the mission node for it can you give it to me

where do you find the new map

@All: hey wassup. i am fairly new to DCS and i watch your vids to learn and for laughs(ROFLMFAO) : ) from time to time you guys try some stunts to see if theory matches virtual-reality(ex, the Top Gun canopy to canopy thing). ever since i started wit flight sims(F22 lighting-wish i still had a win 95 computer) i have always wondered if a fuel-tank(empty or not) could be used to get a bandit off your six. is there any way possible you guys could demonstrate this??? i am waiting your response : P

Grim Reapers, i am asking you now,how in the big big world did you got this?because:I CANT DOWNLOAD THIS, BECAUSE IF I CLICK DOWNLOAD,HES ONLY STARTING DCS AND NOT DOWNLOADING THE DLC!

is this map on open beta only at the moment?

Early access. Only open beta not?

I was stationed at Andersen for 3 years, really wish I made this so I could help with all the inaccuracies, of which there were many

I do not know if anyone else has had this problem but I downloaded it but when I get into the game it's not showing up I tried restarting my pc nothing works

The turkey shoot is on its way,

Missed opportunity here. Should have had everyone grab a chopper or warbird for this, planes that are good at slow and low. Nice opportunity to show off your Hinds and look more closely at the sights! I enjoyed the sightseeing none the less, good video!

Someone has checked FPS?? ANY one else has issues with the FPS? ?

Who maps

This map look so good! First comment Cap

$30 bucks I could swing but $60-$80 or so is steep for all that water.

Another terrible map DCS need update scenary like MFS 2020

"sexy, sexy boys" needs to be DROPPED!