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...