Sunday, 30 August 2020

Dinassaut!


I've been thinking of ways to squeeze extra mileage out of my river terrain and, although Vietnam Brown Water riverine actions seemed like the obvious thing, I have switched focus to something similar but far more interesting. I'm a big Indo China War enthusiast and have existing plans for 15mm and 10mm wargaming, using No End In Sight, so it's an obvious choice to look at smaller scale riverine actions by the Dinassaut units in Indochina. 


I had thought about this before but not in 1/600th scale, in which it would be possible to model the tactics and formations used by the Dinassaut convoys on anti-Viet Minh operations. In fact, it just so happens that I have a small selection of 1/600th Skytrex (now Heroics and Ros) amphibious craft in the leadpile, which I had no use for after acquiring them in a bundle for coastal warfare games. As you can see, they scale really well with the terrain and can easily be converted into the modified versions used by the French. 



I can add some more boats from Heroics and Ros and get hold of infantry and vehicles for both sides from Oddzial Osmy. There's a lovely model of an LVT Alligator including crew, half of which I can waterline for amphibious operations, as well as some Vietnamese civilians, US WW2 infantry for the CEFEO forces and possibly WW2 Japanese for the Viet Minh. I can also get some of the Brigade Models Vietnamese village buildings, which I can incorporates into some paddy field land terrain tiles to fit alongside the river sections. There's also air support from Tumbling Dice!


I was thinking of Fivecore Company Command as the rules, so it would, be a company / platoon level game with each stand representing a section of infantry and vehicles being at 1:1 scale. It would all be very small but I quite like the idea of a compact, portable but visually impressive set up, especially as it is also very cheap compared to the larger scale alternatives. I think this is worth my time and effort to develop further, so will continue my research and development.

5 comments:

  1. This looks very interesting. I have also seen pictures of riverine interpretations of “Gaslands” if that floats your boat (pardon the pun)?

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  2. Sounds like a winning idea to me.

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  3. Looks great will follow on with interest. You could try the ules in the back of Buckle for your Dust to give you some ideas perhaps.

    Cheers,

    Pete.

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  4. Yes I think it would work well using some WW2 1/300th scale rules of some sort?

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