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Not sure which has been longer lately  … the weeks or the weekends.  🙁

Anyway, let me try to catch up with some responses.

@unclejimmy- glad you liked the Australians in Vietnam video.  Tell you who was even harder, at least suggested by the numbers … the South Koreans.  Seven times as many troops deployed to Vietnam at just about any time … ten times as many casualties.  I might have to make up a ROK force for Vietnam Valor & Victory now.  I already have ARVN so we all have someone to laugh at.  😀

The green motorcycle looks awesome!  Just for recon and transport?  I might be missing them but I don’t see any weapons on there.  Then again,would a motorcycle really make a good COMBAT vehicle?  Lord knows they used plenty in early- and mid- World War II for fast recon … and yes, you do see plenty of them in Panzer Leader. 😀

@irredeemable – I like the Joker!  Now we just need a Harlequin figure as well.  😛  “Ya better treat me right, Mista J!”  I’ve heard good things about that U-Boat game.  I hear it’s actually pretty hard for the group to survive a complete mission.  Like most co-op games, because you’re never playing “against” opponents, the game itself is hard as balls.

Thanks, @ceppie – Yeah, you don’t hear much about the ROK in Vietnam.  Not sure why.  They were deployed mostly in III Corps sector, north of Saigon, along the coast.  These guys were positively vicious 1964-68.  The only complaint about them is that sometimes they weren’t easy to control.  There are some reports of atrocities when they took things too far.  They were deployed up to II and I Corps briefly when the Tet Offensive hit in 68, the US Commander of I Field Force at Cam Ranh Bay didn’t like them because he couldn’t control them.  After Tet they kind of deflated, they lost a lot of their aggression.  The political support back home largely faded because American financial support for South Korea in the war wasn’t what it used to be.  Accordingly, they lost a little of their motivation.  I swear I’ve run across one historian who called them the “Hessians” of the Vietnam War.  When the money dries up, so does the eagerness to fight.  But for the first half of the war they were pretty insane.  Separately from ARVN, I think, as the South Koreans and South Vietnamese did NOT get along, at least their officers.

Wargaming time for the moment is all Valor & Victory, Panzer Leader, and Darkstar.  It’s already more than I can handle, games are being cancelled and postponed so I don’t miss content creation deadlines for Ops Center and Sitrep.  I haven’t picked up a paintbrush since February.

I like the Stealth Suits and the Drones!  😀

Yes the hotel up there where we stayed at was nice.  Nothing fancy, but clean, safe, quiet, and comfortable.