Sitrep Podcast: Historical Gaming (and Register for Upcoming Gaming Event)!

[templar007 52370xp 1]

Jim is always a class act!

[oriskany 60771xp 0]

Thanks very much, @templar007 – I’ll admit that stream was a LITTLE disorganized – but of course we’re rolling out BRAND new counters for a BRAND NEW expansion of a BRAND NEW conflict no one had played before … so we’re breaking new ground!  😀

[elessar2590 18207xp 0]

What I saw of the game looked really cool I’ll have to watch the Twitch Recording later in the week.

[damon 7525xp 0]

Had fun with this, it has potential for some interesting challenges

[templar007 52370xp 1]

A while back, someone posted some games rules for storming an airliner.  They also posted graphics showing the interior view of the plane.

 

I had it book marked but now can’t seem to find it anywhere.

 

Does anyone else remember this and have a link to the article or post?

 

Thanks if you do.

[oriskany 60771xp 0]

@templar007 – The project was from @elessar2590 , along with some beginning graphics.  I helped out with some additional graphics.

The Rescue of Lufthansa Flight 181

The Rescue of Lufthansa Flight 181

 

[templar007 52370xp 1]

Thanks Jim @oriskany  that’s the one!

I’m planning some Modern Miniatures Action for the upcoming three day weekend!

 

 

 

[oriskany 60771xp 0]

Part One of a video recording / battle report between myself and @elessar2590 :

It’s back to I Corps Sector, near the DMZ of South Vietnam, in the closing months of 1967. Whole regiments of North Vietnamese Army regulars are building up around Khe Sanh, Camp Carroll, the Rock Pile, Hill 881, and other points throughout the western reaches of Quang Tri Province. While the US Marines here don’t know the enemy is building up for the imminent Tet Offensive, they know the NVA is keen to take as much high ground as possible to facilitate artillery operations supporting a big offensive.

Valor & Victory is a WW2 squad-based tactical wargame that we have expanded to use in more modern conflicts. See if Elessar2590’s NVA regulars have what it takes to defeat a sweep and clear by Oriskany’s US Marine Corps!

Check out Valor & Victory at Valor-and-Victory.com

[jemmyParticipant 2428xp 1]

That´s interesting. Carefully advancing is rewarded is a scheme that is not so very much appreciated in other games.

One question: What is an FNG? I guessed it´s Fairly New GI, but I´m not quite sure.

[oriskany 60771xp 1]

@jemmy – you are correct about the “new.”  The F and the G … have different meanings. 😀 😀 😀

F*cking New Guy.

Derisive and derogatory term for the new replacement troops in a squad or platoon.  He hasn’t put his time in, he hasn’t “suffered” yet, he’s incompetent, his inexperience is likely to get someone in the unit killed.  Mortality rates for FNGs were astronomically higher than for more experienced men with even 30-60 days in the bush.

syn:  a “cherry,” a “boot,” (USMC), etc.

This was a real problem in Vietnam because unlike World War II and Vietnam, where draftees were in the field until the war was done and everyone knew that going in, troops in Vietnam had to serve a tour of only 12-13 months.  Everyone knew that, so no one wanted to stick their neck out, many troops were just “counting days.”  Also, because new men were always coming in and old troops always going out, there was never really a build up of overall unit experience in longer-term units.

In other language, in almost every squad, platoon, section, squadron, or battery in Vietnam, there was almost always someone who was “just in from the world” whom the veterans always felt was a liability, hazard, nuisance, or just a target for easy abuse.  This was the “FNG.”

 

[oriskany 60771xp 0]

Now it’s time for the conclusion of the Valor & Victory Vietnam game between myself and @elessar2590 .  Do my US Marines have what it takes to seize the all-important high ground from the NVA, limiting their ability to establish artillery fire on key targets for the upcoming Tet Offensive?

No spoilers, but suffice it to say … this one is CLOSE!

[oriskany 60771xp 0]

Sitrep Podcast will be going live at 9PM UK time tonight.  We’ll be recreating part of 3 Para’s assault up the slope of Mount Longdon on 11-12 June, 1982, part of the Falklands War vs. Argentina.

Come hang out!  We hope to see some of you there!

[oriskany 60771xp 0]

Scene of today’s battle.  😀

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[grimwolfuk 10506xp 1]

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https://www.battlegroupnorthag.com

Pre-orders soon

Check out the previous episode of SITREP as we have an amazing interview with Piers about this.

Link here: SITREP Podcast

[grimwolfuk 10506xp 2]

Hi folks you all might want to look at this as battlegroup is enter the cold war with 10mm minis from PSC, pre-orders now available from here.

https://www-battlegroupnorthag-com.backerkit.com/hosted_preorders?fbclid=IwAR02PvpuBv60FSkGHErwT0O0SjWtKKsRANWxTgXyMWPUuwFUUm900RVBa8s

Check out the previous episode of SITREP as we have an amazing interview with Piers about this.

Link here: SITREP Podcast

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