It’s been a crazy weekend, folks.  Apologies, let me catch up with some replies. 😀

@suetoniuspaullinus – Those French / Foreign Legion / pro-government local troops sound awesome, especially if they’re as great as the ones you’ve already shown.  Of course so much of the battle was fought at ranges that would never fit on a 28mm table (sieges don’t often make the best wargames), unless you recreated the Viet Minh overrunning one of the French strongpoints.  THAT would be epic.

And I great work on the Russian from 2nd Chechen War.  Is he a dismounted vehicle crewman?  I ask because of the headgear.  Could be wrong.

@limburger – Red Dawn in a Moderns Setting.  My first impulse was Force on Force (I guess it always us when it comes to Moderns), because of the regular vs, irregular dynamic at play in those firefights.  But others have made better suggestions, Force on Force usually has larger battles than are feature din that movie (there were never more than eight “Wolverines” plus the Air Force Lt. Colonel played by Powers Booth).  So squad level tops.  Also, the Wolverines always had surprise.  The one time they didn’t they immediately starting losing people … fast.

So the other folks’ suggestions would be better. 😀

@hobbyhub – in a past episode of the SitRep Podcast we talked about playing Team Yankee in 6mm, but leaving all measurements, ranges, movements, etc. unchanged.   It greatly alleviates the “fender to fender” dynamic you mention.  Also, at 6mm, the same size table encompasses a battlefield  x6.25 times bigger in surface area than at 15mm.  This helps soften the “compressed battlefields” we often see.

@davebpg – I  need to get some 15mm HMMVWs so hard.  I’m cleaning out / giving away a lot of my “lead mountain” to clear the hobby table so to speak, I still want to build a 1991 USMC Desert Storm force and 1991 Iraqi force in Team Yankee one of these days.  I’ll need HMMVWs aplenty for that.

@piers – I love those helicopters for Vietnam.  I was having a helluva time finding any for the Tet Offensive series a while back.  I had to settle for Revell 1:72 scale models.  They looked good enough, but are very fragile for gaming miniatures and had way too many parts (especially for gaming minis, you need more than one).

@phaidknott – I’ve got a .pdf copy of Fistful of TOWs, although I haven’t gotten to play it yet.  I’ll admit I raised an eyebrow when I saw how large the file was.  But yes, a huge chunk of the book is unit listings, etc.  Probably one reason I haven’t tried it yet is when playing platoon-based games, Panzer Leader updates like Tactical Combat Middle East or GDW Assault has usually scratched that itch in the past.

How would you compare FFOT with other 6mm platoon-based mini games like, say … GHQ Micro Armor?  I imagine it is more detailed?