Thanks guys, 'preciate it!!

Peter - I'm was familiar with the 90mm RCL, just couldn't imagine humping that bastard up jungle covered hills and ridges in 90 degree heat with 100% humidity.  Everything I've read says the grunts left them in the rear and used LAWs as portable RCLs.

V/R,
Jack

Quote from: bigjackmac on 27 August 2016, 07:20:31 PM
Thanks guys, 'preciate it!!

Peter - I'm was familiar with the 90mm RCL, just couldn't imagine humping that bastard up jungle covered hills and ridges in 90 degree heat with 100% humidity.  Everything I've read says the grunts left them in the rear and used LAWs as portable RCLs.

V/R,
Jack

Me neither, but i qouted this:

Its maximum range was about 2200 yards (meters) but effective in the range 450-800 yards (meters). The M67 was used extensively in Vietnam, especially against bunkers and other fortifications

Makes me think they kept it back and only brought it when they think they would need it.

Maybe it was helo'ed in once contact was made?  I just know that bastid looks heavy!

V/R,
Jack

Don't know, but i wouldn't wanna lug it around in the jungle, that's for sure!

Mind you it would be handy in fire base and camp defence. Must have a look at my Vietnam Firebases Osprey when I get home. Think the marines may also have taken the Ontos with them to Nam.

Yes they did. There's newsreel of it in action in Hue

IanS

Yeah, the Ontos was definitely in Vietnam with the Corps, and I've seen the Army with 106mm recoiless rifles on Jeeps and M-113s.  But that's my point; it's a great weapon to have, you just need something to carry it!

V/R,
Jack

All,

Next up in my Vietnam stuff is some Peter Pig NVA and VC.  Now, please recall I've already shown you pics of a bunch of Peter Pig VC rifles, RPGs, and RPDs I'd finished awhile back.  But I decided I had too many VC, so I took some VC I had lying around, and some VC I'd already finished, and painted them up as North Vietnamese Army (NVA) regulars.  Then I took some NVA heavy weapons crews I had lying around and painted them too, splitting them between NVA and VC.


The whole gang: there are 28 NVA infantry, six NVA heavy weapons crew, six VC heavy weapons crew, sixteen VC casualty figures (which I'll also use for NVA), and an unmanned 14.5mm machine gun and an unmanned 7.62mm machine gun (the two reddish brown bases).  Unfortunately I forgot to take closeups of those two.


A look at one of the NVA riflemen.  To see a bunch more pics, please check the blog at:
http://blackhawkhet.blogspot.com/2016/08/peter-pig-vietnam-15mm-nva-and-vc-with.html

Well, there's my bad guys, and I love the figs, just solid, well cast poses.  We'll be seeing these soon; we have to, because they'll face off against whomever I go with from the good guys, be they Marines, Army, or Special Forces of some type.  More to follow.

V/R,
Jack

Nice work, Jack.

Cheers - Phil

Top work

Go for Australians. They have floppy hats, Centurions and the wonderful FIST, the M113 with a Saracen Armoured Car turret on the top. Already got loads of stuff in 15 mm for this and had some good games. There are some really helpful websites out there and one interesting thing is that the fora tend to include a number of vets.

You can have some really interesting scenarios ( which reminds me I really ought to finish that article ). The trick is not to make the overwhelming US firepower too effective.

One game I took part in some years ago at a WD COW had as one of the Vietcong options to not actually be on the table, just use dummy markers. The US player lost by the number of innocent civilians he killed etc.

Incidentally the VC and NVA  seemed to be able to move recoiled rifles and 23 mm aa around in the jungle.

Thanks Lemmey and Phil, I appreciate it.

Jeff - Australians just really aren't my thing (in Vietnam; I've been eyeing some Eureka Australians for Bardia and SW Pacific in WWII, and I love their Modern Aussies).  Not sure what article you're referencing, but if it's got scenarios, please do!

I do have Vietnam-era Aussies from Pendraken, used them in my Cuba Libre campaign as local forces, and I've got Vietnam-era Aussies from Flashpoint Minis, but I plan on using them as various SF-types.  I'm looking at US SF, LRRPs, SEALs, Mike Force, SOG, Phoenix, all that cool/crazy stuff.

Yeah, handling the NVA and VC in a cool representation of their elusive nature is hard to figure out, but a lot of fun.  I'll probably go pretty conventional, though I hear Peter Pig is updating "Men of Company B," in which that type of stuff is a feature of the rules.

V/R,
Jack

Nice minis!

Aspecially like the machine guns!

I remember playing in a couple of Vietnam games, multiplayer on the US side with the umpire controlling Charlie

A raid on a village in a small clearing in the jungle. The player commanding the M41 Bulldog got keen and charged through the village, as he turned to come back he went into the edge of the jungle and shed a track. He spent the rest of the game screaming over the radio for infantry support. Near the end of the game he was getting really nervous as he could hear Charlie moving closer through the jungle. He let fly with a beehive round killing half the US squad coming to his aid

The other game was a sweep across some paddy fields, I was the air controller. The US commander was chewing me out for not calling in enough air support. I responded, "if you weren't getting people wounded so quickly I wouldn't be calling in all these medivac missions and would have time to call more air support". For some reason my response was not well received, at least by the main commander

One of our best was a tiger hunt!
Whoever bagged the tigger got a free pass home.
Amazing how Buddist monks resemble felines at 200yrd in the brush.

Another great game was Players controlling VC attempting to down a radio mast. US forces were randomly deployed and each had their own objectives

Another good one is cache search for US troops, and cache evacuation for VC.