It’s been a great weekend down at Newark for The Other Partizan. I had help from guys from the club with a Vietnam demo game . We made a weekend of it staying over the night before with a few beers and a curry , then an hour or two on the Letxscape gaming cafe that stayed open .
Sunday turned into a really busy day for me with lots of interest in the game ,the terrain and figures and a lot of great feedback. It was a real social event with lots of guys from the blogging and You Tube community popping by for a chat . I did an interview with Wargames Illustrated as well , they took a load of pictures and video . I barely left the table all day and didn’t get round to much shopping , although I don’t often buy much from shows . I did pick up some ferro sheeting from Cortani to line the Vietnam figure trays for magnetisation, they also had some pre painted small paddy fields I snapped up along with some more 10mm ACW from Pendraken .
I had a good chat with Ged from Gringo40s about the range , what might be in the wings and what else I would like to see adding - this project still has real legs .
All quiet before the storm
The US entry points .
A Slick carrying a senior officer has crashed - now was it malfunction or something more sinister . A rescue was to be mounted . There have been some reports of VC activity in the area.
The Huey Cobra lead the way to provide firepower
Is it all innocent in the village?
Transport and CasEvac arrive
Hang on that’s NVA in the village
Extra squads are waiting to deploy on big Chinnok
The badly wounded are loaded onto the first flight out
There are VC closing in on the downed chopper from the jungle area
A Napalm strike on the jungle edges blunts the VC moving to the landing zone.
It’s become a hot LZ
The Skyraider watches as the injured senior officer has been spirited away into the village - it can’t take a chance on firing.
An RPG bang on target hits the Chinook just after it’s squads have exited . But they are under small arms fire too
A last ditch rescue charge is foiled by an RPG that blew the M113 to smithereens .
The captured officer is put onto a sampan - destination the Hanoi Hilton
The US , lost 6 dead , 6 injured , an officer captured . A destroyed Chinook , a damaged Cobra and Huey , and a blown up M113 .A total failure . The VC and NVA lost over 60 guys so it was pretty painful.
Table and toys look wonderful Dave. Sounds like a great day out.
ReplyDeleteThanks Peter
Deleteawesome, bizarrely the napalm is too small
ReplyDeleteHmm .. bigger tea lights … more bases .. I did have it 4x1 and did look cool .
DeleteBad day for the Americans but a great looking game.
ReplyDeleteYeah . Although they were inflicting lots of casualties they just weren’t getting done what needed to be . I was fun to watch it develop
DeleteThat was a sight to see Dave. Grest to meet up for a brief chat face to face once again.
ReplyDeleteCheers Ray - I caught up with you all over the day - good chats .
DeleteLovely table and toys, Dave! :)
ReplyDeleteThanks - it’s been fun pulling it all together
DeleteWow, what a fabulous sight to see. Bravo to you, Dave! The whole setup really looks superb.
ReplyDeleteCheers - it’s coming along nicely!
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