Begin Your Tour of Duty In Vietnam With Flames Of War
March 11, 2013 by brennon
Battlefront are taking you to the jungles of Vietnam with their latest book Tour of Duty that allows you to play out the patrols and deadly ambushes that took place during the 1960's and early 1970's.
Tour of Duty adds new miniatures, new rules and new scenarios to the tabletop and challenges you with an interesting setting that might have you fighting a little differently.
The scenarios themselves sound fantastic with 'Hot LZ' helping recreate the tense moment when troops were dropped in or picked up from deep within enemy territory.
Of course no game setting would be complete without miniatures...
First up we have a pair of nice looking helicopters. I can already hear the Flight of the Valkyrie blaring over the sound system and imagine a couple of marines sitting on the side of that UH-1B HOG. The HUEY COBRA is also one mean looking gunship.
There are also some fantastic tank sets you can pick up. The K-2 (T-54) Ironclad Company set and K-3 (PT-76) Ironclad Company became available on Saturday 9th March as did everything else show above!
As with everything from Flames of War you can read a lot more about each of these sets on their actual product page. So if you need to brush up on your military history they can steer you in the right direction.
Will you be taking on the jungles of Vietnam?
The thing is wars like this bring into stark contrast what all wars actually are, and that kind of casts a harsh light on a hobby like ours. I am not a warmonger by any stretch of the imagination, but I enjoy playing games about war. It’s normally pretty easy to reconcile myself with that, but when I see products like this it gets harder to ignore that my hobby is basically all about some of the worst violence committed throughout human history. Every war we reenact with little men is a terrible thing off the table, but some are… Read more »
You dont surf, do you Charlie? 😉
I don’t understand why you would think people would think of Vietnam as any more ‘terrible’ than the Second World War. There were far more horrible deaths and atrocities in WW2 than Vietnam. Is it because it was a guerrilla war? WW2 had plenty of guerrilla fighting in it as well. I’m not trying to sound patronising I just don’t understand what you mean.
if your not comfortable with histroical gaming then fair enough, from a gamers point of view modern conflics like Vietnam, Iraq, Afgan and so on gives a new angle on tactics. I tend to play the insergents/ “bad guys” as its a break from the 7 foot space marines.