Somewhere over the rainbow…

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@unclejimmy  nah you didn’t miss anything. I just started doing some terrain and was to lazy to upload the pictures here so I just linked my Instagram account 😉

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@oriskany – well, the SK don’t like anyone! I used to watch a TV show called ‘The Bush Tucker Man’. Awesome. The man himself is a Major in the Aussie Army, but was SASR and served in Vietnam when he was a young soldier. One of the shows was him in some ‘jungle’ type terrain and he starts talking about it being like Vietnam. He says, “This is just like where I grew-up, so when I got sent to Vietnam it was just like being at home.”

Some of the places he goes are totally inaccessable by land and he gets dropped off by helicopter. For a “joke” they didn’t come back for him and he just laughed and added, “…well, it only took me two weeks to walk back home so it wasn’t that bad.” His actual job is research into survival foods from all of the continent. He has spent years working with Koori people to learn all of their tricks and skills. If you have never seen it then just watch one episode.

The book is fantastic too.

The Aussies would also cut-down an standard issue SLR so they could use it in the jungle! They called it “the bitch”. I have fired loads of SLR’s and they are big and nasty. An SLR is 7.62 and non of your girly 5.56 nonsense either. I don’t even want to know what if feels like to shoot an sawn-off version! Ever fired a sawn-off shotgun?

Australia is a strange place. If you want ‘weird’ then read about the Dreamtime. Vegemite! The Paul Hogan Show. Their national dish is toast.

The motorbike doesn’t have any weapons. Infinity is like that. The rider has a shotgun and that’s it. It belongs to a Recon regiment – hence the bike. You can dismount and wheel the bike next to you as cover! You can also use it to block access and leave an anti-personel mine attached. I’ll find the rider…

As a former ‘biker’ I would not like to ride into any combat on a bike. I dodged a moth riding back from Edinburgh one night and nearly ended-up in a ditch. A 222kg motorbike is not very forgiving. The old US MP Harley-Davidsons where so big and heavy that you couldn’t u-turn it on a normal road and if you drop it you need a couple of guys to get it up!

However, this mini is more of an off-road design and would be really good for recon. We use them in the desert. Quads too. Get a silencer fitted to the engine and unless you are reasonably close to it you won’t hear it. A lot of the ISIS spotters ride bikes…dress like them and your in!

Glad to hear you have been taking it easy…for a change! 1000pts.

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@sundancer – I think I get it! I just joined Twitter a few weeks ago. I am catching up slowly, but the Twitter thing is just to keep in touch with my friend’s band. I keep missing their shows.

Well, I suppose I had better do something. I did get a great bargain…2xPak 40’s (PSC) the whole sprue for £5.12 and I got here in less than 28hrs. Now, do I build one or keep it for tomorrow?

 

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@unclejimmy Twitter is a dangerous place with a lot of evil people with bad hair 😉

Did some more hobby but I put all the pictures in a project.

Affordable housing

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@unclejimmy – I don’t know about South Koreans in general but the few ROK Marines I met back in the day were harder than coffin nails.

Australian SLRs:  Yeah, these characteristics are all represented, or at least approximated, in the Vietnam expansion I’ve been developing, testing, and using for Valor & Victory (originally developed free to print-n-play by Barry Doyle).

7.62mm ammo, thus they get a 6 range … instead of the 5.56 NATO / .223 Remington (gets a range of 5) … and any pistol round gets a range of 4.  (MG and .30 cal rifle rounds get a 6 and pistols get a 4 in original Valor & Victory, smaller assault rifle rounds like the 5.56 NATO / .223 are sort of between the two, so I gave them a 5.

20-round magazine and only semi-auto fire, so base ROF firepower of 0.5/man instead of 0.75 (fully automatic weapons, as outlined in original V&V).

If I ever made up older Ia Drang-era US Air Cav with M14A1 battle rifles, they’d get the same firepower and range rules.

Cut down SLR and generally lower pack load (if any pack at all): +1 movement speed (same as NVA / VC, faster than Americans)

+1 to all Assault checks, cause they’re naturally crazy Australians (also, something of a consolation prize after I pegged down their firepower rating for the semi-auto SLR rather than the full-auto M-16s.

Oh, also they have 6 casualty points for a full squad, 3 for a half squad.  Again, natural badass-ness.  VC and ARVN get a 4/2.  NVA and US Army gets a 5/2.  USMC and Special Forces get the same 6/3 as the Australians.

Basically, I made them up as US Marines with faster speed (less equipment and ammo) and slightly lower firepower (semi-auto battle rifle rather than a fully-auto assault rifle) – also higher range for the larger caliber round.  Also, the Australians get the better assault …

… but I can’t have the Australians be better than the Marines (different is okay, but not better).    So I might take that assault rule and apply it to the Marines, especially since I am taking the Elite rating <i>away </i>from the US Marines (it hurts, but I gotta be honest here, Valor & Victory elite status needs to be reserved for truly next-tier units.  Maybe <i>some </i>Marines, but not automatically for all).

Anyway, I’m rambling here, so …

Motorbike –

The rider with the weapons sounds great.  In Panzer Leader you see those German and later Italians recon teams with motorcycle side cars with MG34s and Breda 30s and the like, they always get pasted.  I hope your motorcycle gas better luck!

Taking it easy –  Believe it or not, I actually have been.  I actually got to bed before 12:30 last night, and didn’t get up to 7:30.  Gasp, seven actual hours of sleep!  The decadence!  Episode 10 of Ops Center is ahead of schedule so I don’t screw around too much when I get home tonight I might be in bed before midnight, which means I might even get a real weekend almost to myself!  Yay!

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