Reply To: Vietnam US Marine

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Realized I never  gave a +1 to the thread.  Oops.  Fixed that.  Definitely like Vietnam, it’s one of my top five “gaming settings” for historical (WW2 East Front, American Revolution, Arab-Israeli Wars, Vietnam, WW2 Pacific).

Looks like you DEFINITELY had more luck with minis that I did when I jumped into Vietnam.  I was doing 15mm, granted … but three armies, US Army/Marine Corps, NVA/PAVN, and VC/NLF.  The VC were actually the best ones.  But the US troops were clearly just WW2 figures with M16s, and even worse were the NVA, who were all wearing British desert-style SHORTS fo some reason???    And the NVA jungle helmets looked more like British colonial sun hats.  Okay, with some inventive painting it didn’t look too bad at 15mm … but annoying nonetheless.

I do like my Marine Corps M48A3s, though.  Marine armor, baby!  Task Force X-Ray in Hue City, February 1968!