Montagnard Strikers

[Sunray]

My daughter is a canny lass who indulges her daddy's love of wargaming. She even is aware of 10mm scale and what they look like. So when she  spied a blag of 10mm white metal at a car boot for a proverbial quid, she invested and posted them to me.

A mixed bunch - Pendraken, Minifigs and another brand which might the old War Games South - all Africa Korps - or as we all are aware on this forum- DKA.

The ones I believe to be Wargames South are a shade smaller than Pendraken, but neat sculpts that capture the baggy desert gear. When I placed them beside the Pendraken they looked like a diminutive Asian race.   Hmmmm!!!!

A paint job in 1970's duckhunter cammo and I had my Montagnard Strikers. ....or indeed any indigenous Third World 'hardened' militia .  One of the things that addicts me to the BKC/C W C  rules  is the different class of troops that one can designate , and the impact on the table.

[Duke Speedy of Leighton]

Good find that lass!

[Sunray]

My son does not think so.  My hardened militia whipped his National Guard in a skirmish last Sunday.  He now calls them my Hobbit Battle Group.

[toxicpixie]

Haha, does he blame you, the dice or your lass

Good idea there, and good find!

[Duke Speedy of Leighton]

Question that is bothering me...
Does anyone do defenders, midfielders and goalies to match?

[cameronian]

What pray is a 'Montagnard Striker', is it a brand of matches, an industrial agitator, a footballer, a kind of clock ... ?

[Ithoriel]

What pray is a 'Montagnard Striker', is it a brand of matches, an industrial agitator, a footballer, a kind of clock ... ?

10mm Montagnard Strike Team lead by a 12mm US soldier

[Techno]

 

[Lord Kermit of Birkenhead]

You can delete the bad ones you know Phil.....


IanS

[toxicpixie]

Isn't that what Stalin said?!

[Techno]

You can delete the bad ones you know Phil.....
IanS

I deleted a whole thread yesterday.....And the forum still appears to work ! 
Cheers - Phil

[Sunray]

For those interested in Vietnam history, my inspiration for the Montagnard "Strikers", cam from  Leroy Thompson's  book, Uniforms of the Soldiers of Fortune Blandford Press, 1985.

Montagnard is a French term for Mountain men. and referred to the tribes in the Central Highlands of Vietnam,   The French and later the Americans formed them into unpaid defence groups and also into  elite 'Strike Forces' .   Hence the term 'Striker'.

[Ithoriel]

Picture I posted is actually of one of the Montagnard Strike Teams, who seem regularly to have had US "advisors" attached.

[Sunray]

Yes, I loved the 12 mm /10mm contrast 

On the Military History online forum there is currently a thread on the fate of these elite fighters after the Americans abandoned them.  Many found their way to the west.  They take the name  "Hmong " as they still have no wish to be known as Vietnamese.

We tend to perceive the Vietnam war as Americans/Aussies versus VC.  The role of the various units of the Nungs, Montagnards and the ARVN is largely neglected on the table.   (pause reader, as Nung comes up on Google)

We could use a good M41 light tank. Those by other manufactures are way over scale for 1/150.