Nam 68 - Battle Report Mission 1 (AAR) - History and Wargames Blog

 I have been looking at the recent NAM 68 Rule Set by Warwick Kinrade, known for being the author of the Battlegroup WW2 rule set. 

Two lovely AARs, using 15mm minis. 

AAR: Nam'68 Mission 1: Village search and Sweep August 01, 2025

and

AAR: Nam'68 mission 2. Jungle scrub security patrol

The rules play similarly to Battlefront WW2. Tweaked for the Vietnam War focusing on the small squad and platoon size games. Skirmish level as some call it. Its available as a Print on Demand copy from The Plastic Soldiers Company. 

The NAM 68 Facebook Group Can be found: Nam68 Facebook Group

Black Horse Regiment - 11th Armored Cav - Battle Report

 This is a great little video of a game and nice bit of history. 
Well worth a watch. 

Long Shot Wargaming Channel certainly did a great job on the table and game.

Vietnam Gaming Forum - Fields of Fire Reloaded

 Want to find more info and posts on Vietnam Miniature Wargaming, history and Model Ranges, Battle Reports etc, then let me recommend - Fields of Fire Reloaded Forum. 

The original forum sadly went down and this is a replacement. Not sure all previous members realised the forum was re-created. 

A good mix of folks from across the globe and some interesting games and info for all aspects of the Indo-China and Vietnam War periods in all Scales from 6mm, 15mm, 20mm and 28mm.

https://fieldsoffire.forumotion.com/

Battlefront - Name Ruleset

 Here is a great little video by Little Wars Gaming Group about the Battlefront Nam Ruleset for 15mm Vietnam. A successor for the original Tropic Lighting Rules adaption for Flames of War. 

Here is the previous to the battle report for their big game! 
A gorgeous table and great game. A standard I would love to get to one day with my Vietnam Gaming. 

And here is the actual games report in all its glory! 

If you loved that video and wondered how they made the table here is a video on the table terrain making. 

Time Fly's

 And so it is now late in 2025.. I have had a tough year.. not done a huge amount of gaming and had some major health issues. 2024 saw two doses of covid and some broken toes and this year has seen a prolapsed disc in my spine on 30th of April and then months of recovery and boom it got worse in October and now I am back on the road to slow recovery and avoiding surgery I hope. 

Gaming wise, last year I started to get the urge to do some more Vietnam.. dug out my 28mm trays of old Mongrel and Baker Company and TAG mini's and was hoping to get them painted. Also picked up some bits from Battlefronts NAM 15mm range and the rules. 

So hoping to setup my self to get back to painting and get some NAM games in next year. 
And return to some regular blogging once again. 

I seem to have a habit of finding systems and miniature ranges just after they have gone out of print. 
Certainly seems with Gale Force Nine and Battlefront merging or buyout, which ever it is.. the Nam range has been dumped in leu of Team Yankee.. Which frankly from the games I have seen played suffers with the whole Flame of War Tank Carpark issues again. 

I like the Nam rules as they seem to do a pretty reasonable job of reflecting the differing tactics of the Communist and Free World Forces in the Vietnam Conflict. 

So I am looking forward to getting some figures painted and table ready and some scenery for 15mm and 28mm built up and on the table. 


Update - I just hit post on this and then had a look back at some of my previous posts and games and wow.. 2011.. was the first posts here I made. 
A lot has changed for me and a lot hasn't. Its kinda scary. I guess that Wargaming and Table Top Roleplaying is still in my blood! 

Anyone after some more Veitnam Wargaming fund the Fields of Fire old Forum, got replaced a few years ago with the new "Reloaded" forum site. You can find it here: Fields of Fire Reloaded Forum