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These look great @piers, as usual. I especially like your restrained basing for them. Most people try to say welcome to the jungle by over planting the bases with the end result of figurines looking like they belong to the bottom of an aquarium. Besides there is much more terrain in Vietnam than just jungle. Your bases look more natural and would fit into most of the other terrain of Vietnam.
I suppose it is good to see other companies creating wargame rules for Vietnam War. The basic rules in the pattern of BG at the skirmish level is well suited for this war. To be honest wargaming wise I just can’t go their. For my family and I that war has not ended, it is just to painful. I study it to try to understand how 2 of my brothers went to, but what returned was not my two brothers. What was them somehow died there. I don’t have issues with it being wargamed or with people wanting to play it. Hopefully I am not that stupid, this is just my personal journey.
If your game is to include ANZUS forces I would like to point out a mistake other game systems have made about our Centurians. They tended to look up the stats of Mk v or Mk III and paste them into the game system. First off we only had 8 Mk IIIs we bought second hand from NZ after we purchased 143+ Mk Vs from Britain. In their Vietnam configuration they are more vulnerable to HEAT rounds than a standard Centurian as we has to remove their side skirts. They sometimes do not include a rule for the effects of canister rounds. We fired literally tons of the stuff. So much so the the three vanes welded to the barrel was their to assist in aiming the round. The coaxial .50 caliber rifle was replaced with a .50 caliber MG. If the game is to include ANZUS Forces and I know how anal you are about research I am probably telling you something you already know.
May I suggest the Battle of Firebase Coral, sometimes referred to as Battle of Coral-Balmoral that happened on the early hours of May 13th 1968. It has everything on offer. Day and night actions, losing and retaking of buy-in positions, Apps and in the closing stages Centurian tanks and off board fire support from the other near by firebases. The Battle fizzles out around the 28th of May. It lends itself to a series of linked skirmishes or a narrative campaign. Sadly even hear in Australia it is an almost forgotten battle with most of the public attention going to the Battle of Long Tan. 🙁
I like the job you have done here and can’t wait for US forces to be completed. Meanwhile I’m off to paint some early Pz-IVs.
