Are they going on to single bases for skirmishing or team-bases ala FOW?

For man to man, the 5core 3rd edition rules will do you fine, though Jack uses a variant of Five Men at Kursk instead.

If you want team bases, as Martin suggests, Company Command.

I’d be tempted to base them in 3’s and call them fire teams or some such.

If you can get it printed, I can swing you an up to date copy of FIve Men at Kursk by email.
It hasn’t changed much though.

5core Company Command is one of my favorite games bar none. You owe it to yourself to play it regardless 😉

I’d do you a freebie but my printer is on the fritz.

Maybe someone here can volunteer ?

I gotcha, Jonathan 🙂

I’m sure you won’t be disappointed. Vietnam is crying out to be done at platoon/company level, the level of so many of the  personal accounts.

Sorry guys, I’ve been busy with the holiday weekend (hope all of you in the States had a great 4th of July!).  As mentioned, you could go either way, skirmish (squad) or platoon; you don’t have enough dudes for company.  So either play skirmish (you could play 5MIN style or 5MAK style), or play platoon level with 5Core Company Command*.

If you want to use 5Core Company Command, here’s how I would do it: it’s a platoon, just use fireteam-level basing.

Each squad has two bases, a rifle base (get 1K 1S) and an LMG base (1K 2S).

Your base platoon would have a command stand (Plt Cmdr, Plt Sgt, RTO) and three rifle squads of 3 rifle stands and 3 LMG stands.
Then you could throw in the occasional tank, track, MG team, recoiless rifle team, 60mm mortar team (if Marines) as support, if you like.
Though you’re still gonna need more than 12 dudes, though not many more.

*5Core Company Command is still my favorite, despite all the batreps and fun I’m having with 5MAK.  Think of all the KG Klink and early Cuba Libre games; I’m actually working on getting back to that, re-basing some of my 15mm stuff, to include Vietnam-era USMC.  Probably the US Army, ARVN, and Mike Force dudes, too.

V/R,
Jack

You know,I did do rules for cold war platoon level gaming 😉

They’re even kinda good…

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I must work on catching up. I have caught up on Cuba Libre but have Lacquered Coffins and Arab-Israeli Wars to work through. To avoid being scolded for posting a flood of catch-up comments, I have refrained from posting, but as Tony the Tiger used to say, “They’re Great!”.

Cheers gents.

Rod Robertson.

5 Men in Normandy will work fine for small skirmish actions in Vietnam. You should give it a go while you want to finish off basing and Company Command to arrive. It will also get your head around the 1/6 activation mechanism and the peeking/not peeking. Company Command is a little different but similar enough that just knowing how these work helps a lot. Or at least it did me!

You seem to mow a lot (based on FB) 🙂  You do have a large property though. At least you enjoy it!