Talking of lugging M72s around, the photo I mentioned earlier of the French 57mm RR shows what looks like the reloads dumped on the dyke between the paddys-...
Something interesting: I work with an older gentleman who claims to be from Laos. Today, Veteran's Day, we spoke a bit about my time with the 82nd Airborne...
Hi When we had a Vietnam display at one of the airshow here in California, I portrayed a Recruiter for Air America....We had 5 ex-pilots come up to me and tell...
Some of us are looking at having a sculptor create some 20mm minis for Vietnam to fill in some gaps. These would be things such as civies in various poses,...
Hey Darby! Just FYI, in case you didn't know, but the fellow who does Platoon 20 at East Riding Miniatures has re-worked some of the old molds and has released...
The company is CP Models/TQD Castings. The reason we're going this route is that most of us have a lot of SHQ minis, and just about nothing mixes well, as...
Hello! I am trying to find out more about how the Ground Surveillance RADAR units worked in Vietnam. I understand that there were 4 Short Distance GSR's...
Joe, From alt.war.vietnam ... I don't know what "PPS" means. We had radar on Jamie (B 2/19 Arty, 1ACD) in about June '69. We were north of Tay Ninh,...
Greetings! I am a new member primarily interested in the Squad Battles TOD section of this group, although I am genuinely interested in the Vietnam War as a...
Map4a is timberwolf or Timberwolf Map5 ??? but I might have it on disk The guy had to put passwords on almost all of his stuff because a fellow gamers was...
Thanks for replying. I thought that might be the case. At least we know it was possible. I had thought about using the editor from TOD and playing with a...
I'm introducing Vietnam skirmish gaming to my gaming group and I was wondering which of the two rule sets would you run first? I'm more familiar with FNG...
Hello, Kent. How soon are you planning to do this? I am working on the Viet Nam version of my man-to-man rules that I developed for the Old West. It's a...
Having played Charlie Company a lot our little group tried FNG and got through half a game before canning the system. I think you will find Charlie Company...
Hello! I put up an After Action Review for a CWC Vietnam game on my blog last night. It is rather long, but it has a lot of pictures too! The game is a 2000...
Wow, I was on Jamie with D 2/7 Cav, December 69 to maybe April 70. To: Vietgaming@...: mrg3105@...: Fri, 19 Dec 2008 23:55:03...
Alex Newman
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The place was over-run by both the NVA and rats. The rats were worse. To: vietgaming@...: zennine@...: Fri, 19 Dec 2008 17:49:58...
Alex Newman
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Jan 3, 2009 3:28 am
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Oh man.. totally sorry about forgetting ya ;) I'll email you the maps without the passwords in a few. From what I remember of the game each combat used...
I remember reading a short piece about a Sth Vietnamese Marine Officer who was in charge of a Marine armour unit in 75 and him talking about the Nth Vietnamese...
Were the rats VC or regular? ;) Cheers Greg ... -0800Subject: RE: [Vietgaming] Re: US Army Ground Surveillance RADAR in Vietnam ... 70.To: Vietgaming@...:...
Since they were recruited locally, I can only assume they were VC. To: Vietgaming@...: mrg3105@...: Sat, 3 Jan 2009 12:44:07...
Alex Newman
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Jan 3, 2009 7:46 pm
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Logical, and funny...:) On the serious side, does anyone actually know how useful these early GSR radars were in Vietnam? There seemed to be quite a few...
I remember a temporary LZ in Cambodia where they used ground rader, and the terrain resembled a golf course. And the NVA launched a ground assault that nobody...
Alex Newman
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Hi Guys, I hope Iım not intruding. Iım not a spammer, just a small business owner trying to spread some news where I think the spreading might do some good. ...
And yet I have seen photos of these things set up on top of the M113s on their tripods. Doesn't take them above tree level of course, but in the lowlands it...
It just occurred to me that the ground radar was not being used to observe troop movements, but to track in-comming ordinance. I know they told us that one...
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