BOHICA Vietnam Rules update.

[CapnJim]

My favourite bit was the guy who broke his ankle. The odds on the die roll achieving that were huge. 

Stuff like that happens with a certain regularity in our games.  Cowboys shooting other cowboys in the groin, a lackey killing the hero at the last minute, a lone cop holding off the hordes of baddies with just a pistol, Lance Corporal Smythe taking out all the German armor with his PIAT, a whole Swedish division blundering off the table...if it's possible to roll in our games, we end up rolling it, odds be damned.......makes for some interesting games though, that's for sure...

[Paul @ Empress Miniatures]

Part Three.

When the civilians reacted to the Huey landing by grabbing their weapons they began to move in on the RECON unit. More importantly it began a domino effect  with the possibility of more VC appearing on the table. With some more excellent throws an entire platoon with heavy weapons appeared. Order very simple. Move as fast as possible towards the enemy and attack.
This they did, collecting village VC as they moved.

On the left flank the RECON held their position and fought off the VC fairly effectively but not conclusively.
Eventually the Skyraider pilot made radio contact and was on station. RECON threw a smoke grenade and the pilot confirmed the red smoke and target identified. The VC in the area realised the danger and were able to make a swift run out of the path of the plane.
With the worst possible die roll the napalm canisters missed their target and exploded further on.......missing everything but some vegetation. WOOSH!!!!

The pilot went round again probably due to the amount of bad language being screamed at him by the RECON LT.
In the meantime the VC were moving at speed towards their position and beginning to encircle them on the right flank. All getting pretty grim and the RECON unit was beginning to consider evacuation.

I will attach pictures when I can get them to load 

[NurgleHH]

As a fan of Danger Close (and the version before) I would be interested in the changes you made to make it big. What changed for Vietnam?? And what means big for you in vietnam? Is it more a "We were soldiers"-asymetric battle???

[Paul @ Empress Miniatures]

BIG as in it has a lot more detail specific to Vietnam and BIG because it can handle larger units as well as the smaller units of the original Danger Close.

It maintains the original mechanisms, although some tweaked slightly but goes into a lot more explanation as to how things work. For example communications move from a few sentences to a few pages which is due to more detailed explanations and a lot more detail specific to Vietnam. 

[CapnJim]

BIG as in it has a lot more detail specific to Vietnam and BIG because it can handle larger units as well as the smaller units of the original Danger Close.

It maintains the original mechanisms, although some tweaked slightly but goes into a lot more explanation as to how things work. For example communications move from a few sentences to a few pages which is due to more detailed explanations and a lot more detail specific to Vietnam. 

Alrighty then.  Well, there's more money I'll end up giving you, Paul...besides, one can't have enough sets of rules, can one?

[has.been]

Will it have a QRS ?? 

[Paul @ Empress Miniatures]

Will it have a QRS ?? 

Yes of course.

[Paul @ Empress Miniatures]

Alrighty then.  Well, there's more money I'll end up giving you, Paul...besides, one can't have enough sets of rules, can one?

 

[Paul @ Empress Miniatures]

 

[Paul @ Empress Miniatures]

 

[tomrommel1]

What a nice game indeed!

[CapnJim]

What a nice game indeed!

Indeed it is!  I like the ground-level views in particular.  But the whole shebang is way cool! 

[Paul @ Empress Miniatures]

Cheers guys. You will notice that some of the pictures are sideways. This is done for atmosphere so you can see what it would look like laying down and under fire 

[CapnJim]

Cheers guys. You will notice that some of the pictures are sideways. This is done for atmosphere so you can see what it would look like laying down and under fire 

Ah.  I thought it was gun camera footage from the trail Skyraider...

[Paul @ Empress Miniatures]

PART 4
Having shouted rude words at the pilot he promised to do better. RECON were now under fire from a VC section on the left flank who. with some local villagers were gradually sneaking forward towards the RECON unit.

A purple smoke canister was thrown into the jungle area and the pilot contacted. This time the Skyraider screamed in firing rockets and hit exactly on target killing and wounding many of the VC and sending the remainder running away.  Phew.

The LT decided that things were more stable and so the main landing could begin. Following radio contact they awaited the large noisy UH34's bringing the Marine platoon. These soon appeared and moved towards the planned LZ. Firing suppressive fire from their MG's to keep enemy heads down.

With only some small arms buzzing around they successfully landed and their passengers jumped out and ran for the high ground to take up defensive positions.

Suddenly things looked a little brighter.

Da Dd DAAAAAA!!!!!