"Product Review: Battlefront's Sampans from Resistance" Topic

"In the new-ish Brown Water Navy book for the Vietnam Era of Flames of War the Local Resistance forces get some interesting new watercraft. Notably, Brown Water Navy adds Sampans to the Organization chart for the Local Forces. To help new players they have updated their old VPABX10 Local Forces with a new Local Resistance box set VPABX12 that includes all the land based Resistance teams, but also adds a Sampan option for each team.

Now if you're a new player this is great; all your Resistance options are there in one box. However, if you're on your 2nd tour of the Nam you already had land based teams from VPABX10. Insert sad panda mode….but STOP right there mister (or miss)!!!! I will share two little tricks that can help you maximize your purchase. First, you can sell half the Sampans with the land based figures and make some of your money back, because in a river fight you can never go full Sampan. The other method is to modify your Sampans with some extra figures or, like I did, just cut the rice/straw bundles off of the land figures and add them as cargo to the Sampans…"

Full review here
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Amicalement
Armand

The Resistance teams look more like civilians then they are VC/NVA. So I could always use more to work in the rice paddy terrain.

Yeah, Resistance teams might as well be civilians.

If you're a real jerk, you can put actual civilian models on the table in addition to your Resistance teams.

(smile)

Amicalement
Armand