This weekend I was invited to the League of Gentlemen Wargamers
big Vietnam bash.
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| The mighty brown water navy about to depart on operations |
The event was held at the base of the Kirriemuir Wargames
Club in Kirriemuir Angus. Peter Nicholson,
Colin Jack and others provided the troops and terrain. On the Saturday we played thru a series of 5
two player mini games that Dave O’Brien had devised to familiarise the 10
players with the Bolt Action rules. The
rules worked well and after the first mini game most of the players were
comfortable with the basic rules. My
contribution to the event was to work out the Bolt Action weapon factors for
Vietnam and come up with rules for helicopters and the brown water navy
warships. I have posted an excel file with
this information on the Bolt Action Yahoo forum.
On the Sunday we played a single massive game on a 30ft by
up to 8ft wide table. Peter Nicholson came
up with the scenario. It proved to be a VC victory with the heavily
equipped US side failing to achieve any
of their major objectives.
It was a great event – the terrain and figures were very
impressive and everyone enjoyed the gaming.
I really liked the brown water
navy and the helicopter fleet. More
photos with descriptions at Flickr
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| View down the 30ft long table - at this end firebase with port, then 5 villages, at far end a field hospital and POW camp |
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| US advanced hospital under VC mortar fire |
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| RPG rocket falls short of a Heliship |
Fantastic looking game, can you share how you constructed the paddy fields?
ReplyDeleteCheers
Stu
It depends on which paddy fields you are on about.
ReplyDeleteMine which are the larger ones are based on plastic card with Kapa board for the edges and carved to angle the sides which is probably the biggest difference between mine and Peter's. One the Kapa was glued in place it was then covered in tetrion and painted and textured to suit. I used door mat for the rice glued and painted in place but it would be easier now by using the tufts that are now produced, although more expensive. The water was just painted dark brown then a thick layer of gloss varnish poured in and moved about slightly whilst it was drying to create a ripple effect. In all they were very easy to produce and I have meant to make more but just never found the time.
Great looking game!
ReplyDeleteChristopher