Author Topic: (COMMERCIAL) Empress Miniatures' NEW Vietnam Range (Read 392533 times)

Poiter50 · « **Reply #1965 on:** April 21, 2020, 01:59:43 AM »

Yep, mud and dust is a great reference, grabbed that a couple of years back with birthday vouchers.

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carlos marighela · « **Reply #1966 on:** April 21, 2020, 02:47:33 AM »

Those Aussies have turned out well my only nit-pick would be that the bum bags should be the same colour as the rest of their webbing. Different coloured Bren pouches are correct but the bum packs were part of the standard webbing and issued in OG.

@Splod. I was thinking the same thing for planning and budgeting purposes but my willpower failed me and I ended up sending Matt a wad of $$$$.

On a vaguely related note, I've been re-reading Horner's Phantoms of the Jungle and I am really looking forward to some SAS.

carlos marighela · « **Reply #1967 on:** April 21, 2020, 02:57:17 AM »

Oh and some more reading material:

https://press.anu.edu.au/publications/vietnam-vanguard

Blackwolf · « **Reply #1968 on:** April 21, 2020, 04:30:19 AM »

Sleeping With Your Ears Open(SAS) by Gary McKay is worth a read,plenty of interviews etc

carlos marighela · « **Reply #1969 on:** April 21, 2020, 04:41:44 AM »

As is In Good Company, his personal account of experience as a platoon commander with 4RAR. He won a Military Cross during his tour and the book is an excellent account of service in Vietnam. IIRC he wrote another tome on Vietnam but the title escapes me.

Blackwolf · « **Reply #1970 on:** April 21, 2020, 05:03:50 AM »

Indeed,have it in my bookshelf. I think the other is Delta Four: Australian Riflemen in Vietnam.
Trackers by Peter Haran is good too,though if you’re a dog lover skip the last chapter...f.....g bureaucrats.

Poiter50 · « **Reply #1971 on:** April 21, 2020, 05:44:45 AM »

Second Trackers, excellent read and "bureaucrats!!".

Quote from: Blackwolf on April 21, 2020, 05:03:50 AM

Indeed,have it in my bookshelf. I think the other is Delta Four: Australian Riflemen in Vietnam.
Trackers by Peter Haran is good too,though if you’re a dog lover skip the last chapter...f.....g bureaucrats.

Splod · « **Reply #1972 on:** April 21, 2020, 06:33:40 AM »

Quote from: Blackwolf on April 21, 2020, 05:03:50 AM

Trackers by Peter Haran is good too,though if you’re a dog lover skip the last chapter...f.....g bureaucrats.

I'm not sure I can read it now!

Blackwolf · « **Reply #1973 on:** April 21, 2020, 06:40:53 AM »

Quote from: Splod on April 21, 2020, 06:33:40 AM

I'm not sure I can read it now!

Yep mate. I’ve read it once,can’t bring myself to read it again( my girl,Cattledog/Bull Terrier is just having her dinner as I write).It is still a very worthwhile book.

carlos marighela · « **Reply #1974 on:** April 21, 2020, 07:00:26 AM »

Do have a squizz at the 5RAR book I linked to. The whole thing is downloadable. Enough detail to provide with gaming scenarios for a month of Sundays.

Blackwolf · « **Reply #1975 on:** April 21, 2020, 07:48:56 AM »

Quote from: carlos marighela on April 21, 2020, 07:00:26 AM

Do have a squizz at the 5RAR book I linked to. The whole thing is downloadable. Enough detail to provide with gaming scenarios for a month of Sundays.

Definitely,I’m looking forward to it. Cheers for the heads up

Just downloaded to my IPad

Ultravanillasmurf · « **Reply #1976 on:** April 21, 2020, 08:31:54 AM »

Thanks for the background stuff.

Paul @ Empress Miniatures · « **Reply #1977 on:** April 21, 2020, 09:44:47 AM »

Quote from: carlos marighela on April 21, 2020, 02:57:17 AM

Oh and some more reading material:

https://press.anu.edu.au/publications/vietnam-vanguard

That' ;)s a brilliant resource Carlos. Huge thanks for that. Some very interesting photos as well.

carlos marighela · « **Reply #1978 on:** April 21, 2020, 11:53:54 AM »

More piccies on the 5 RAR Association website and info on the battalion’s second tour (1969/70).

https://www.5rar.asn.au/contents.htm

Of course if you want the real mother lode of contact reports and scenarios, there’s an ADFA site I’ve linked to before but well worth repeating. Maps pretty much every contact and many mine incidents in Phuoc Tuy Province and beyond that 1ATF and 1 RAR were involved in. Plenty of other useful info including excellent topo maps. Some nice piccies too.

https://vietnam.unsw.adfa.edu.au/battlemap/

carlos marighela · « **Reply #1979 on:** April 23, 2020, 12:21:00 PM »

More free reading material.

3RAR First Tour (‘67/68):

http://www.3rar.com.au/1sttourvietnam68/3RARVietnam6768Book.pdf

Making some urban terrain for Hue ? Get double use with A Coy 3RAR clearing Ba Ria, Phuoc Tuy’s provincial capital during the 1968 Tet Offensive. Exciting tales of derring do as individual platoons with APC support run missions to rescue Australian advisors and CIA agents.

Plus the epic battles of FSBs Coral and Balmoral.

https://vietnam.unsw.adfa.edu.au/the-real-story-first-battle-of-coral/

Enemy account here:

https://vietnam.unsw.adfa.edu.au/the-battle-of-coral-so-hoi-13-may-1968-the-141st-nva-regiment-account/

For Ba Ria see also:
https://vietnam.unsw.adfa.edu.au/the-tet-offensive/

and

https://vietnam.unsw.adfa.edu.au/baria-tet-68-province-senior-advisor-report-february-1968/

3RAR, second tour(1971) :

http://www.3rar.com.au/yours%20faithfully/Yours%20Faithfully.pdf

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