History and wargaming

We played this game almost three weeks ago, but as the whole family have been enjoying a rather vigorous season flu for two of those weeks I’ve had to postpone writing this until now, and consequently with some loss of details. I had two new players taking control of 3rd squad bringing the plt HQ and one M60 mg team as support on a local security patrol mission. So far so good, sweeping a jungle scrub area with an abandoned Montagnard village and a logger camp. This time though the threat level had risen to medium(Mike), with some reasonably well armed regional VC rather than the local guerillas encountered last mission. Mission 2, part 1: MISSION BRIEFING Operation: Jungle Sweep – Pilot Recovery & VC Presence Recon Date: 12 February 1968 Location: Vicinity of grid coordinates XT 123456, I Corps Tactical Zone, South Vietnam Unit: 1st Platoon, Charlie Company, 1st Battalion, 5th Cavalry Regiment, 1st Air Cavalry Division OBJECTIVE Conduct a reconnaissance patrol in the desig...

Here's some more reinforcements (as I keep postponing writing up an AAR for our last game): a UH-1 Huey and a downed helicopter crewman. The huey is a Battlefront kit and the crew from Peter Pig. 

Life's been busy lately but I'm slowly getting some more Vietnam models finished, with a new game scheduled for next Sunday if nothing unforeseen happens. I also had a package of various VC and a whole platoon of US Marines from Flashpoint miniatures arrive all the way from Australia, and quite happy with their look so far! Honestly surprised how the cost of shipping from Australia is just slightly more expensive than getting a package from France or Spain... Anyways, here's the latest arrival, a M48 Patton that I painted up as in USMC service. I'm not sure I succeeded with the tone of green, but afaik USMC vehicles were more dark green-ish rather than classic american olive drab...    

 Another batch of US grunts for Vietnam, finished up both fire teams of the second squad and a few additions to the platoon HQ, i.e the medic and the platoon sergeant.

I finally got to run a game of Nam’68 with two mates of mine visiting the scorching hot(!) north. We rolled up a Search and sweep scenario with 5 search points, sweeping down a main road in the late evening(the approaching night sub-plot). I gave them a reinforced squad and a M60 team (dividing the two fireteams between them and sharing the M60 team), a slap on the back and let them out into the jungle. Oh yeah and a partly generated Mission briefing to set the scene (not necessary to read): MISSION BRIEFING • Date: 14 January 1968 • Location: Village of Phu Lac, Quang Ngai Province, South Vietnam • Unit: 1st Platoon, Charlie Company, 1st Battalion, 5th cavalry Regiment, 2nd Brigade Combat Team, 1st Cavalry Division. OBJECTIVE Conduct a search and sweep operation in the village of Phu Lac, a small rural settlement suspected of concealing Viet Cong supply caches. The village is located approximately 12 kilometers southeast of Quang Ngai City and lies adjacent to Highway 521, a ke...

I've managed to finish up another US piece, a Forward HQ unit used in Battlegroup, or some kind of senior command for other wargame rules. They're all 15mm Peter Pig, well fed and nice little pieces to paint up.