"FOW Vietnam AAR: Stand-Up Fight 1500 points" Topic
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| BlackKnight | 28 Oct 2013 6:56 a.m. PST |
My latest Vietnam FOW batrep is up here: link I hope you enjoy it. |
| Louie N | 28 Oct 2013 9:13 a.m. PST |
A good battle report. Thank you for posting. |
| Malibu Max | 28 Oct 2013 12:16 p.m. PST |
What is it with FoW and lining tanks/AFVs up track to track????
Another reason why I will never play FoW. Max |
| BlackKnight | 28 Oct 2013 12:44 p.m. PST |
Tell me about it…I was so hoping my mines would put paid to those clusters! Well, they did render one group combat ineffective for 1/3 of the game so I can't complain too much. :) |
| Dan Wideman II | 28 Oct 2013 5:50 p.m. PST |
Max, that has nothing to do with FoW. I've seen the same for years in everything from Command Decision to Battleground, to Flames. It's gotta be a gamer thing. I can't explain it. I've done it on occasion when trying to fit through gaps etc, but I don't know why people deploy like that in the open. |
| nazrat | 29 Oct 2013 6:24 a.m. PST |
Exactly, Dan! It has very little to do with the system being played and everything to do with the players running them that way. |
| Maxshadow | 01 Nov 2013 8:11 p.m. PST |
Isn't just because they are running too many AFVs for the table size? Solution bigger tables or less tanks. :oP |
| colkitto | 27 Nov 2013 1:25 p.m. PST |
Is it that they are not running a 1:1 ground scale? |
| Maxshadow | 30 Nov 2013 10:15 p.m. PST |
Well that's a good point too. |
| Tgunner | 14 Jun 2014 6:19 a.m. PST |
It happens in the real world too. Tanks and armor don't "take cover" like infantry do. We might take up hull down positions if we find them or look for patches of wood to obscure our vehicles, but we don't really take cover. Also, I've seen on many occasions armored units form up in dense formations while in tactical assembly areas. Granted, this is the US Army so we rarely have to worry about enemy air strikes. But I have seen tank platoons, even companies, nearly hub to hub. But generally we tried to keep about 25-50 meter intervals between us. @Blackknight- FYI, US Cavalry doesn't follow British/European rules for organization. Basically a regiment is a brigade sized unit. Squadrons are battalions. Troops are companies. Platoons are platoons. So your friend fielded an armored cavalry troop with two ACAV platoons and a tank platoon. But, just for confusion sake cavalry units organized as infantry, like 1/7th Cavalry during Vietnam were organized as infantry. So it was 1st Battalion, 7th Cavalry that was at Ia Drang Valley and it deployed an A, B, C, and D companies. 1/7 Cavalry wasn't really cavalry, it was infantry and was organized accordingly. |
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