1967 20mm Vietnam Game

Ran a game last weekend using Disposable Heroes with some house rules to include wounding and reducing the damage of the weapons to make it less deadly. A US Platoon supported by an ACAV and an M113 for casevac purposes versus two platoons of PAVN regulars. PAVN eeked out a win when they blew up the M113 loaded with wounded with a lucky RPG hit. All 3 players had a blast and want to play again in the near future. I will be running a scenario at Mini Recon outside Austin, Texas next month with my stuff.






More pics are available on my google photos link to my album: https://photos.app.goo.gl/n4KEj3fbSTpoWjR4A

Looks like a good game - what do the beads indicate? (a nice choice of markers)

Thanks OTB! The yellow drops mark a unit that has been activated. DH has alternating rounds where one side activates a unit, and then the other side, etc. The red drops represent a pin and a unit can have multiple.

Evan,
Game sounded like fun. Game table looked great! Disposable
Heroes is a favorite locally. My best gaming buddy has used
it a bunch for WWII and their modern variant. Never played it
for Vietnam even though we both have the Long Road South
supplement. Look forward to more. Thanks for sharing.
Sam

Thanks, Sam! Yeah it was really popular here for a long time, but bolt action and force on force kind of split everyone up for awhile. I feel that DH gives a fun game and rewards fire and maneuver fairly well. Plus each player can easily command a platoon which allows for bigger games with multiple players. We are playing again tomorrow to play test the scenario I want to run at Mini Recon. It will be a semi-historical battle where a US company needs to take a hamlet and key road as part of the drive to cut off communist supply lines to Hue during Tet.

NIce lookoing game. It is nice that you will run a game at a convention.

I recognize your Elheim. Nicely done. Elheim may have the only left handed 20mm NVA figure.

Tom

Garryowen wrote:NIce lookoing game. It is nice that you will run a game at a convention.

I recognize your Elheim. Nicely done. Elheim may have the only left handed 20mm NVA figure.

Tom

Thanks, Garry! Yes, it has already drummed up some interest on FB so I decided to run two games during the con to make sure everyone has a chance to play. Ha! I think they must be the only manufacturer with a left-handed NVA figure.

I must confess, that as much as I like Elhiem figures, I have sidelined all but one of the lefties. No offense to any southpaws here, just my quirk. If I ever paint over a hundred NVA, I would include another.

Tom

Learned something new! Had no idea that anyone made
left handed NVA!

Nice battle. Looks like you had fun
Joe

Garryowen wrote:I must confess, that as much as I like Elhiem figures, I have sidelined all but one of the lefties. No offense to any southpaws here, just my quirk. If I ever paint over a hundred NVA, I would include another.

Tom

But I thought Communists were leftists....

OTB!!

Maybe I should pull my extra out and paint them.

Tom