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Miniatures Adventure => The Conflicts that came in from the Cold => Topic started by: Pijlie on January 30, 2023, 01:19:38 PM

Title: Comparative review of rulesets to play the Vietnam period with
Post by: Pijlie on January 30, 2023, 01:19:38 PM

It is still a Work In Progress. You will find them here. http://pijlieblog.blogspot.com/2023/01/playing-nam-comparative-review-of.html (http://pijlieblog.blogspot.com/2023/01/playing-nam-comparative-review-of.html)

I hope you will enjoy reading it and welcome all feedback.

Title: Re: Comparative review of rulesets to play the Vietnam period with
Post by: CapnJim on January 30, 2023, 09:57:53 PM

Interesting read.  I have most of those, and have played a couple.

You may also want to look at The 'Nam, by Wayne Bollands.  Heck, we've also used Fistful of Lead: Bigger Battles for Nam stuff, to good effect...

Title: Re: Comparative review of rulesets to play the Vietnam period with
Post by: Golgotha on January 30, 2023, 10:18:02 PM

Very useful keen to seeing more here.

Title: Re: Comparative review of rulesets to play the Vietnam period with
Post by: Cat on January 31, 2023, 12:52:45 AM

I'm still partial to RAFMs venerable Charlie Company by Greg Novak.  Brilliant campaign system.

Title: Re: Comparative review of rulesets to play the Vietnam period with
Post by: carlos marighela on January 31, 2023, 01:05:44 AM

Quote from: Cat on January 31, 2023, 12:52:45 AM

I'm still partial to RAFMs venerable Charlie Company by Greg Novak.  Brilliant campaign system.

+1 to that.

Title: Re: Comparative review of rulesets to play the Vietnam period with
Post by: SJWi on January 31, 2023, 06:07:12 AM

Pijlie, all the rules you list so far are IMHO 1-1 skirmish/platoon level. Do you plan to cover company or battalion level rules?  I only ask as I have a big collection of 1/200 figures, vehicles, helos and even riverine and have never found a decent set of rules for them. I did find a quite interesting set called "From the Delta to the DMZ" but they struck me as being a beta set and not completely finished/playtested.       

Title: Re: Comparative review of rulesets to play the Vietnam period with
Post by: tomrommel1 on January 31, 2023, 10:01:51 AM

For squad level rules xenos rampant could be used. I tried it and it works quite well it is a bit more abstract though.

Title: Re: Comparative review of rulesets to play the Vietnam period with
Post by: brunei35 on January 31, 2023, 10:45:25 AM

Thanks for posting - will be buying FNG off the back of your review

Title: Re: Comparative review of rulesets to play the Vietnam period with
Post by: Pijlie on January 31, 2023, 11:22:09 AM

Quote from: SJWi on January 31, 2023, 06:07:12 AM

Pijlie, all the rules you list so far are IMHO 1-1 skirmish/platoon level. Do you plan to cover company or battalion level rules?  I only ask as I have a big collection of 1/200 figures, vehicles, helos and even riverine and have never found a decent set of rules for them. I did find a quite interesting set called "From the Delta to the DMZ" but they struck me as being a beta set and not completely finished/playtested.     

As a rule I only review rulesets I have played or will soon play. Lacking a 15mm or smaller scaled collection the playtesting of company-sized is not in scope.

However, I could be more clear about this a the start of the overview, so I will clarify it in the blog. Thanks for the feedback.

Title: Re: Comparative review of rulesets to play the Vietnam period with
Post by: c0cky30 on January 31, 2023, 11:23:15 AM

https://carportgaming.blogspot.com/2019/09/

Title: Re: Comparative review of rulesets to play the Vietnam period with
Post by: M4A3E8 on January 31, 2023, 03:12:26 PM

May I suggest BattlegroundHD.

battlegroundhd.com