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larryfulkerson -> RE: Campaign for South Vietnam Vs Larry (11/29/2017 4:35:35 PM)
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ORIGINAL: Narses
Actually Larry your reinforcements provide these unit for information counters on even numbered turns and my
FWA provide the calendar counters on the odd numbered turns.
While we are on the subject of information counters Curt Chambers also uses allied unit for two allied
information areas.
One allows me to choose between Free Fire zones for my aircraft (actually just free fire everywhere).
Free fire gives 100% air shock but costs the Free World Allies (FWA) one VP each turn it is in use.
If the moves to the other end of the off map free fire track it activates Restricted rules of engagement
and implements a 50% air shock penalty.
The other info area use a counter unit for each US division, indep bde or major air unit. When they are
disbanded (at various EEV costs) the division etc will arrive as reinforcements the next turn. They will
then be replaced by cadre unit that you disband to withdrawn the US division etc and send it home.
Notice the 12th Avn Grp has no white unit to disband to withdraw its unit from Vietnam. That is because
the US will recover no EEV points if the 12th withdraws. With no way to withdraw those units they will
remain until total us withdrawal. The MACV Spt Grp behaves the same.
Hey Bill: Thanks for the info and everything, but what I said was my lame attempt at humor. But it's good you
said all that stuff so we will all know. And you're correct in all that verbage. I didn't know that about
the 12th Avn Grp though. Thanks for bringing that to my attention. You want my NVA to destroy it for you?
You wouldn't have to worry about it then. Just park most of the stuff at Da Nang during the monsoon season.
The Thailanders have this really cute custom that during the monsoon season it's okay to splash water on a
stranger downtown just because the person is probably already wet from the rain. So they figure they might
as well make a game out of it. The Thai people splashing water on each other....it's a riot to watch.
Anyway, DaNang had Pierced Steel Planking for runways and taxiways but the airbase at Bien Hoa was like
a modern airport when I was there. Concrete runways, taxiways, aprons, flightlines......it was amazing what
the CB's did to the place. It had a library and a swimming pool. And there was talk of putting in a bowling
alley. It all belonged to the Vietnamese because it's their base, we're only leasing for 99 years or something
so any permanent facilities become the property of the South Vietnamese. It was okay with the Americans
because they didn't have to pay for it and when they left to go home it was forgotten overnight. Let 'em have
it was the saying.
I was out at the flightline one day working on A-37's and OV-10's when the Vietnamese BB stacker aarrived to
deliver some 500 lb bombs and I watched as he would climb up on the low-boy trailer and roll the bombs to the
end of the trailer and kick them off the end of the trailer to watch them drop the three feet or so and hit
the ground like there was nothing wrong. None of the bombs had fuses on them, there was never any "danger"
to what he was doing but it really looked wrong to me. Disneyland is almost as strange as Vietnam.
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