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@unclejimmy – I don’t know about South Koreans in general but the few ROK Marines I met back in the day were harder than coffin nails.
Australian SLRs: Yeah, these characteristics are all represented, or at least approximated, in the Vietnam expansion I’ve been developing, testing, and using for Valor & Victory (originally developed free to print-n-play by Barry Doyle).
7.62mm ammo, thus they get a 6 range … instead of the 5.56 NATO / .223 Remington (gets a range of 5) … and any pistol round gets a range of 4. (MG and .30 cal rifle rounds get a 6 and pistols get a 4 in original Valor & Victory, smaller assault rifle rounds like the 5.56 NATO / .223 are sort of between the two, so I gave them a 5.
20-round magazine and only semi-auto fire, so base ROF firepower of 0.5/man instead of 0.75 (fully automatic weapons, as outlined in original V&V).
If I ever made up older Ia Drang-era US Air Cav with M14A1 battle rifles, they’d get the same firepower and range rules.
Cut down SLR and generally lower pack load (if any pack at all): +1 movement speed (same as NVA / VC, faster than Americans)
+1 to all Assault checks, cause they’re naturally crazy Australians (also, something of a consolation prize after I pegged down their firepower rating for the semi-auto SLR rather than the full-auto M-16s.
Oh, also they have 6 casualty points for a full squad, 3 for a half squad. Again, natural badass-ness. VC and ARVN get a 4/2. NVA and US Army gets a 5/2. USMC and Special Forces get the same 6/3 as the Australians.
Basically, I made them up as US Marines with faster speed (less equipment and ammo) and slightly lower firepower (semi-auto battle rifle rather than a fully-auto assault rifle) – also higher range for the larger caliber round. Also, the Australians get the better assault …
… but I can’t have the Australians be better than the Marines (different is okay, but not better). So I might take that assault rule and apply it to the Marines, especially since I am taking the Elite rating <i>away </i>from the US Marines (it hurts, but I gotta be honest here, Valor & Victory elite status needs to be reserved for truly next-tier units. Maybe <i>some </i>Marines, but not automatically for all).
Anyway, I’m rambling here, so …
Motorbike –
The rider with the weapons sounds great. In Panzer Leader you see those German and later Italians recon teams with motorcycle side cars with MG34s and Breda 30s and the like, they always get pasted. I hope your motorcycle gas better luck!
Taking it easy – Believe it or not, I actually have been. I actually got to bed before 12:30 last night, and didn’t get up to 7:30. Gasp, seven actual hours of sleep! The decadence! Episode 10 of Ops Center is ahead of schedule so I don’t screw around too much when I get home tonight I might be in bed before midnight, which means I might even get a real weekend almost to myself! Yay!
