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Offline Pijlie

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

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

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Re: Comparative review of rulesets to play the Vietnam period with
« Reply #1 on: 30 January 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...
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Offline Golgotha

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Re: Comparative review of rulesets to play the Vietnam period with
« Reply #2 on: 30 January 2023, 10:18:02 PM »
Very useful keen to seeing more here.

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Re: Comparative review of rulesets to play the Vietnam period with
« Reply #3 on: 31 January 2023, 12:52:45 AM »
I'm still partial to RAFMs venerable Charlie Company by Greg Novak.  Brilliant campaign system.

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Re: Comparative review of rulesets to play the Vietnam period with
« Reply #4 on: 31 January 2023, 01:05:44 AM »
I'm still partial to RAFMs venerable Charlie Company by Greg Novak.  Brilliant campaign system.

+1 to that.
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Offline SJWi

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Re: Comparative review of rulesets to play the Vietnam period with
« Reply #5 on: 31 January 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.       

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Re: Comparative review of rulesets to play the Vietnam period with
« Reply #6 on: 31 January 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.
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Offline brunei35

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Re: Comparative review of rulesets to play the Vietnam period with
« Reply #7 on: 31 January 2023, 10:45:25 AM »
Thanks for posting - will be buying FNG off the back of your review

Offline Pijlie

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Re: Comparative review of rulesets to play the Vietnam period with
« Reply #8 on: 31 January 2023, 11:22:09 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.

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Offline M4A3E8

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Re: Comparative review of rulesets to play the Vietnam period with
« Reply #10 on: 31 January 2023, 03:12:26 PM »
May I suggest BattlegroundHD.

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