Tour of Duty: I Corps 1967

Well it is time to blog about a conflict that I greatly enjoy talking about. There are so many misconceptions about the scale of the fights in the Vietnam War it isn’t even funny. Most gamers seem to think that this was nothing but a skirmish war where squads or platoons set up or got ambushed on patrols. Sure this did happen, I won’t deny that at all, but it was a small part of the overall war effort. There were actions involving battalions of Free World forces and they were a very common occurrence. Anyhow, let’s move on to the real reason for this post.

My Pops yearly visit ended about two weeks ago and my recovery made my gaming time extremely limited. So we skipped our annual Nam gaming sessions this year, but we have decided to give a big go of it next year and running a 4 week mini campaign. We are considering focusing on the Hill Battles of 1967, which really is the 1^st battle for Khe Sanh.  If not the Hill Battles we will stick with 1967 and delve into the battles around Cam Lo, this was a particularly ugly fight that my Dad actually participated in.

Now we have not decided if we are going to use FoW Vietnam or a rule system of our own design. IF we use FoW Nam it will be highly (and I do mean highly) house ruled, I would have to write up a USMC army list cause they have not covered the Marines yet. More on this as it develops and as always I will share any rules or house rules that I write with the community.

So over the next year, I need to paint another entire company of USMC, a pair of M50 Ontos tank destroyers, another company of NVA and flesh out my Main Force VC. I am also hoping I can find some 1/100 Sea Horse or Sea Knight helicopters as well, I hate having to pretend Huey’s are Sea Horses. Since the USMC did not even get transport Huey’s until near the end of the war.

Until next time, keep your powder dry and lead flying!

The Clean Slate

This is a time of great endings and fantastic beginnings into a bright future for miniature wargaming. It is time to say goodbye to 40k/Sci-fi centric Galaxy in Flames and move forward into blogging about all of my miniature wargaming experiences. It is hard to say goodbye since I built a very solid community on GiF and made a ton of new friends there as well, but I honestly feel that in the light of everything that has happened to me in the recent past it is time for a re-boot.

I have re-booted many things in my personal life to contend with my health issues. My life has been a constant struggle for the last 10 months, and as I can see the light at the end of this dark tunnel I need a change of direction in my hobby life as well.

I will still offer 40k hobby content as well as remaining on Deepstrike Radio to talk about 40k lore. I also will be offering content of Flames of War, Grunts 15mm Sci-fi, Muskets and Tomahawks (French Indian War skirmish), Warzone Resurrection, Lord of the Rings and anything else shiny that strikes my fancy.

On top of all that Special Operations Killzone will be here as well, with plenty of updates starting in late June or July. I have enlisted the help of my Father and Brother to help me finish a few Killzone related supplements that have been in the works for ages now. These will include Killzone Zombie Apocalypse and Killzone Campaigns.

So here we are, a Clean Slate for Big Jim in life and hobby, it is an exciting time and I hope that y’all will follow me on this journey.