Emergency Miniature Work - 15mm USMC Super Cobra
Assault on Claudine 5 - Live Stream
Good morning, everyone.
Later this afternoon we’ll be hosting a live game featuring “Oriskany” and “Yavasa.”
We’ll be using Barry Doyle’s Valor & Victory to recreate one of the final assaults (May 6-7, 1954) of the Viet Minh against the French Foreign Legionnaires and Paratroopers holding the doomed airfield of Dien Bien Phu.
Culminating a months-long siege, this climax to the First Indochina War would end the conflict and spell the end of the French Empire in Southeast Asia. Shortly afterwards, the Americans would find themselves embroiled in this troubled region, leading to what we remember as the Vietnam War.
Join us today at 5PM UK time for what we hope will be an epic night-assault game of desperate, point-blank infantry combat!
The map for our game today. Hexes are 15 meters (6 inches at 15mm, a little under one foot at 28mm). Trenches, wrecked bunkers, ride paddies, barbed wire, and some woods to the east. 
French force, including French Foreign Legion. Looking at the 13th Demi-Brigade, it's pretty bad when four counters plus a light machine gun (23 men) represents the survivors from an entire BATTALION. Welcome to Dien Bien Phu.
Two BATTALIONS of Viet Minh (18th and 79th, of the 102nd Regiment / 308th Division). Presented at 2/3 strength since a previous assault by these units was already repulsed earlier that night.
French set up.
The Viet Minh first movement and opening artillery barrages onto the southern and western table edges. CHECK OUT OUR LIVE STREAM AND SEE HOW THIS GAME SHAKES OUT! 
More Dien Bien Phu please! I did some writing on this in college. Lots going on over at the UN with this, as well as US-French relations.
Thanks very much @pslemon ! We have quite a few of these videos on our YouTube Channel, I don’t know if they’re all here as well, I run a check and see.
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCrsewixu9dXUIMTQKJYPuEQ
More Indochina battles & skirmishes please in Valor & Victory…..love that war!