"Nam '68" Rules?

[CapnJim]

On Military Matters here in the states must have pre-ordered some.  They have them listed as due in late October on their website.

 

[Overlord]

Most recent from what I have seen on FB is:

It's at the printers since 30th September, and they have a two week print time on that from what I heard, so, I would expect it back at PSC in two weeks, and out to backers by month end...
But don't quote me on that as an actual delivery date. Just my best guess.

An indication, NOT an absolute date 

[Cholmondely Percival IV]

Thank you. Even a projected date based on latest intel is an improvement on total radio silence.

[LORDHAY]

I ordered the limited edition hard back copy, dues in September, but no sign yet the PSC FB page seems to be all about the latest Battlegroup supplements

[Overlord]

Update today from PSC:

'Nam 68 Tour of Duty' is printed and on its way to PSC HQ. We hope to be shipping these out to the Boonies next week!
Once all backers have their deluxe hardbacks, we will set up the print on demand option!

[Cholmondely Percival IV]

This Boonie Rat can’t wait to get down to the PX!

[BeneathALeadMountain]

Thank you Overlord - excited now 

Andrew
BeneathALeadMountain

[HerbertTarkel]

PSC only announce via Facebook, if you don't use that platform they don't care about you.

Here and other forums we are reliant on PSC fans like Piers to pass information on.

This makes me… sad??

I am STILL WAITING for my Nam 68 book; I’ve emailed Anita from PSC co a couple of times since coming back from Japan - no result.

Facebook only? Awful. I do wish that maybe I had used PayPal now. At least I could have stirred their unrest with a dispute.

[SJWi]

Herbert, sorry to hear about your experience with PSC.  I ordered some 3D printed stuff from them back in August and it still hasn't arrived. Their "contact us" system on the website doesn't appear to work so I e-mailed Anita direct using an old "saved" address. She eventually answered yesterday ( ie 5 days later). It appears they are really snowed under. They ran a 30% discount sale in August at the same time as Nam'68 was on the cards plus I think the Bagration scenario book. Poor planning/timing seems to have overwhelmed them, but it is rather self-inflicted. No consolation for you however. I hope to see my models early next week. I hope they are worth the wait.  They look superb on the website but I have since heard of quality issues with their 3D prints.     

[HerbertTarkel]

Thanks for the response! I did order a Market-Garden book from them, and asked that it be sent with my Nam 68 to save on shipping - VERY WEIRDLY, I wasn’t charged anything for Market-Garden shipping - just the sale price of the book, which I received (and it’s just great!), and literally nothing in terms of contact.

I can only hope my Nam 68 book is inbound, sometime …

[Gunbird]

As soon as the Nam books arrive at PSC HQ they will start shipping the lot out (which should be any moment - stuff doesn't get printed in the UK anymore - way too expensive - so takes a bit of time to arrive). Most people will not get a shipping notice. Heck, I have the whole collection and to date I never received one, but they still arrived. And when they didn't, Anita got it sorted.

Anita is indeed a bit swamped, but you have to keep note this isn't Warlord or GW. PSC is just a few people. If you don't get a reply to an email just sent another. I've had to do it a few times. Annoying? Yup.

The "only info on FB" isn't quite true, but they have 1 man Social media team and they are working very hard to get a dedicated forum up and running so you can avoid Zuckerbergs not so social cash cow.

The 3D prints bit, their printer did a few wrong when they started. But as it is in the age of the Internet, a few complaints get blown up to "everything sucks" in 24 hours. Nowadays no exploding models etc. Plenty of good remarks to be found online about it now, but bad news sells, good news gets snowed under. When you receive them, feel free to post and give a good honest opinion about them.

[Cholmondely Percival IV]

I note that ‘Nam ‘68 is reviewed in the latest issue of WSS. It doesn’t say where the review copy came from, or whether it was a physical copy for that matter. More likely to have been a PDF, I suppose.

[Dice Roller]

Yeah, I read that review.
Sort of turned me off the rules, mainly because of the following:
- only US and VC troops covered (I'm sure they'll expand that in a cynical attempt to extort money out of us)
- limited to platoon actions (Vietnam was bigger than that)

It's put me off the boil.
I'm sure the rules do what they do very well. I'm just not so interested in what it is they're doing.

[Cholmondely Percival IV]

Hmm. I admit the WSS review made me think the scope is rather narrower than I would have liked, but then if it tried to cover the whole war from the point of view of all participants and branches of service it would doubtless do some things much better than others (or would still be in the works.)

Had the pre-order not been the only means of getting the hardcover I would also most likely have waited to see how it was received rather than plunging in.

[V]

Well the whole point of the rules is a narrow focus...

You are playing a the role of a US platoon in its tour of Duty in Vietnam.

It isn't by design to cover more, as we don't want it too... its whole point is to drive home the platoon experience.

It's all about period flavour and inducing the feel and encounters a platoon Commander of US troops might encounter for that year in Nam, and how the troops improve, get worse and go home...

It's a campaign, and it needed a tight focus to do it properly. That's why it's that narrow, it designed to be and due to that, it's 'feel' and narrative is far and above other more generic games.

So if you want to have that immersion, and almost an RPG feel, on top of tight tactical combat action, in a campaign setting, then you will enjoy Nam 68.

If you want rules that cover all manner of actions and forces, then try Ambush Valley... or the many other Vietnam rules. Lots of choice out there.


The rules are back from the printers and at PSC HQ, I'm still waiting for my copies, and they usually ship the customer orders before mine!


As for a cynical attempt to extort money... you clearly don't know Woz or myself, or how little money wargame books make... this isn't GW. 

We just make rules we want to play, and sometimes publish them... and it seems alot of people enjoy Warwick's design ethos for wargames.

We don't have plans for any expansions as yet, it's taken a few years to get this book released, so any further offerings will be down to popularity and if people want them. We haven't thought much on that, except some initial wondering of ARVN, NVA or SF units, but for now, no plans.