narrowed new books down to vietnam only... email for entire list of books on various subjects all books shipped media mail at actual or near actual cost. ...
hello, more books for sale: 629 Classic Aircraft: chapters/articles on the stuka, zero, spitfire, b-17, p-51, b-29 hb oversize photo heavy $20.00 630 German...
Hey guy's today I received some of the Flashpoint miniatures VC and Vietnam hootches. I must say they are really nice. They are a new company with a focus on...
Hello all, I was wondering if anyone else is using this conversion for crossfire and if so how are you basing your fire teams? I mean, are the M-79 blooper...
In the First Cav, we had a M-79 "blooper" in each rifle squad, and an M-60 machine gun in each rifle squad. So a platoon would have three. Every one carried...
Alex Newman
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Sep 10, 2006 6:45 pm
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... Also, were M-60 included in U.S. Marine ... Dave, the M60 machine gun in the Marines comes from a seperate weapons platoon. There are 6 M60's in the...
An articel on convoy ambushes (setting them up and surviving them) has been posted for FNG on the THW Yahoo group. The next articel will be on the Rome plow,...
I think that the M-60 assignment is also based on the year - in the book, We Were Soldiers Once and Young, there seemed to be 4 M-60s and some (3 or 4, cant...
That sounds exactly like the state-side organization we were trained with. By 1968-69 the U.S. Army finally realized they were not fighting in Europe or Korea....
Alex Newman
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Sep 11, 2006 9:33 pm
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HI, Sounds good.Would you happen to know of any NAM rules for 1:1 1/285? I'L Probably be using GHQ figures. ... ...
If you google '10mm Police Action' you should get to a set of very useable rules for these smaller scales, written by David Manley. I use them with the odd...
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David Manley
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Sep 12, 2006 5:17 pm
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I have been on and off this group for a while. I finally want to get my act together and get gaming this lot. My choices are to finish the PPig 15mm I started...
Arc of Fire works well for both 15 and 20mm. They can be used for any 20th Century conflict including Vietnam.The rules are designed for squad to company size...
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Could someone help with these. Firstly a general question: were tactical markings Army-wide standard or unit specific? I also need info for the D Troop 1st...
FNG will work just fine. has a built in campaign system if you are so inclined. Here's a review http://homepage.ntlworld.com/neil.shuck/revfng.html ... any...
Hi All: New to the Nam gaming iwse and still just getting my bearings. Can anyone suggest a link to (a) TO&Es for 1968? I want to build a company or two at 1:1...
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please take me off your mailing list i keep receiving emails from lots of diffrent people and i dont know why . i do not wish to receive any vietgaming emails...
kelly eaton
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Sep 23, 2006 10:28 am
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NVA: they didn't wore the balck pijama but russian patterned unifomrs both in green and kaki (kaki was an "export" variation supplied mainly to VC main force ...
Well Mark you can try my vietnam site at http://pages.zdnet.com/sfclarke/vietnam It's mostly for MoCB from PP but it does have information on toe's Nigel...
Right off the bat, the NVA do not wear the famous black p.j., onoy the VC. NVA wear khaki. Alex...
Alex Newman
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Sep 24, 2006 12:50 am
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Not "Russian" patterned if I may say so. The Soviet pattern in the 60s was still very much a WW2 derivative. IMHO the Vietnamese NVA uniform was far more...
Thanks everybody, good tips. I see my message re: NVA was not clear. I wanted a painting guide for the NVA and a technique for getting good results on VC black...
I have found mixing a little Navy Blue into black for the highlights works well. HTH Do you want to do early NVA or late? The early uniform was Khaki and the...
... I *do* use charcoal grey to highlight black, but sparingly - it gives the impression of 'washed out' black - fine if that's what you want. But other than...
Hi All: I'm going to do troops for 1967/8. I have a load of Ospreys on order, just not here yet. Would the NVA be in khaki still? I'll try that highlighting....
