Mini la Drang - Chain of Command

 

This was a warm up game for a larger game planned for the summer where we plan to re-fight la Drang in the Vietnam War. This was the second warm up game, in the first the NVA won hands down so tweaks had been made to rules. 

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This game was played using Chain of Command with amendments from DMZ v2, then with house rules. The terrain was based on a board game called “It Started Here”. The US had two infantry Platoons the NVA also had two plus some extra sections and heavy weapons.

The game started with a patrol phase in the basic rules. This went well for the US as they managed to control the dry river bed. The NVA had however had the jungle covered hills.

When the game proper started the US capitalised on having the dry river bed and brought on their the majority of their sections. This formed a impressive fire base. The NVA were slower deploying and basically became out gunned. To add to the pain “off table support” in the form of artillery and air attacks just compounded the the problem.

The NVA battle plan was to be aggressive which only made things worse.

As a historical re-enactment of a Vietnam battle, the results were realistic, US firepower is all powerful. However as a game not a good day out for the NVA.

Changes made to the rules were mainly to reduce the casualty rate. This was done by reducing ranges and the addition of a Spotting Dice (lifted from O Group rules). The Spotting Dice if failed made the terrain effect a level better.

Figures used for this game were 28mm mostly Parkerfield Miniatures, West Wind and Rubicon.

Scenery scratch built (except trees), this included the first Ant Hills I have ever made.

Thanks to Andy, Vince, Nathan and Steve M for giving the house rules a good testing.