From MartinC More US Marines (145pts)

 Any one who has ever discussed wargaming in jungle settings will know my opinion. It's a stupid idea. The trees are too numerous and too tall. Every time you move a figure you lean back up with half the jungle hanging from your jumper. 

Tactically it is also a pain, hidden deployment, booby traps and fog of war are difficult to do. It's slow and patchy.It's one of those games that is best played by email with the umpire running the game and you just getting sketchy updates. Actually I'm playing one of those at the moment, and ACW game, and I'm really enjoying it. No birds eye view is a whole different game.

So a couple of weeks ago Empress announced a flash sale of spare figs. It was Vietnam based and so I bought 29 USMC figs, the NVA figs had all gone.

They arrived in the week and I was massively impressed with the figures, done by Paul Hicks who is randomly a friend of a friend on Facebook. Nothing surprising there but the shared friend has never heard of wargaming (the world is small - 6 degrees of separation and all that.) I appear to be rambling, must speak to Noel about making rambling coherent.

So I've painted them

There are 2 sections of 3 fire teams, this is the 1st.

They were a joy to paint

and i'm really pleased with them

For a random selection of spare figs there is very little duplication

There are too many M60s, think that may be an oxymoron

2nd Section, there is an extra M79 figure (see comment about M60s)

Have I said how much I like the figures.

Will need to buy some NVA and VC and a helicopter and.....

I've been looking at rules but I think I'll use Bolt Action, i do like the rule mechanism (tank rules are rubbish but not planning any of them at moment). Ambush Alley has some great action cards (Community Chest) and I will incorporate those and some booby trap rules.

The games will work well solo and as a dungeon crawler (have A4 terrain tiles with visibility 1 tile NSEW. move an any direction from a tile and all visible tiles are removed and move back the removed tiles are replaced with random tiles. Basically you are lost in the jungle.

Anyway

Scores = 29 x 28mm = 145pts