Nam '68: Major Malfunction
The Catalyst
This projects start was the long-awaited delivery of the Nam ’68: Tour of Duty by Warwick Kinrade and published by Plastic Soldier Publishing. I’d long been wanting to start a Vietnam war project, but just hadn’t been able to settle on either a scale of gaming system so it just kept getting pushed back, when this came up for pre-order I was a easy decision, I love Warwicks rulesets, both the Soldiers of and Battlegroup series of games are in my view some of the best going, and I couldn’t wait to see his take on Nam’.
The book is an excellently produced and quality hardback book, featuring many period photos for inspiration along with some great miniature photography from @piers the layout and presentation will feel very familiar to existing publications.
The rules are set at a skirmish level with you commanding up to a Platoon sized force, from small firefights to the full platoon in action and are very flavoury set within the often asymmetric warfare that marks the conflict. A particular highlight from first glance looks to be the ‘Tour of Duty’ campaign system that sees your platoon in action through 12 months of the war.
I’ll be posting a more Indepth look at the rules and a review of them later in the project.
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