Big Hearts, Small Men
Ever since I first started wargaming the Vietnam War I have held the vision of large-scale, sweeping, battalion-sized battles. Numerous things prevented me from realising this vision, such as figure-scale, figure availability, expense, time, rules availability and so forth. Consequently, like most other gamers of this period I have, until now, stuck with the tried and tested, namely 15mm and 20mm skirmish gaming.
But there is an alternative, it's called 'down-sizing'. If I wanted games of this size and magnitude I had to adopt a new approach (or else win a fortune and grow very long arms) and so I decided to look at smaller scales, namely 10mm.
"Big Hearts, Small Men" is my account of this new venture which I hope will encourage others to give it a try.
Vietnam wargaming with 10mm scale figures
- Why choose 10mm? - An introduction to collecting 10mm Vietnam wargaming figures, it's benefits and drawbacks
- Force Composition - planning for and organising your forces. Basic TO&Es. Figure Availability.
- More Bang for Your Buck! - Cost comparisons of buying 10mm Vietnam figures as oppossed to 15mm and 20mm scales.
- Painting Infantry - requirements of painting at 10mm scale. Step-by-step guides to US and NVA infantry.
- Allied Infantry - illustrated guide to figures available
- NVA and VC Infantry - illustrated guide to figures available
- Armour - US and NVA armour organisation and painting guide
- Helicopters - painting guide
- Riverine - review and painting guide of Kennington Miniatures Armored Troop Carrier (ATC), Armored Troop Carrier, Helicopter (ATCH) and Monitor.
- See also: Terrain - making suitable terrain pieces for 10mm scale
- Rules - availability, reviews
- Battle Reports - after action reports of games played
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