tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1194749690795068416.post6807703963910931151..comments2023-12-26T04:19:36.731-08:00Comments on Gowan's 1/72scale projects and crazy ideas: End of University Splurge (over the course of a few months)Daisy Gowan Ditchburnhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07476802587483833107noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1194749690795068416.post-79929628585102948572019-12-01T23:22:28.214-08:002019-12-01T23:22:28.214-08:00I think your idea for the Vietnamese troops could ...I think your idea for the Vietnamese troops could work even better than my own. Would be more appropriate for the figures too. Local militia called up to fight. They would make up the majority of the armed forces. While a smaller core of professional troops would be maintained by each region (the Warsaw Pact troops plus) These would provide the first line of defence alongside the militias. Then there'd be the federal (in practice but not in name) armed forces which would be more professional and more uniformly equipped. The Spetsnaz and the Chinese troops would be a part of this force. These troops would have some bases in the different regions but would, in a defensive scenario, be part of the second line as the federal armed forces would need to gather together first before engaging.<br /><br />All three branches (militia, regional troops, federal troops) would act together in offence. While in the murky asymmetric border wars things would be more complex.<br /><br />All of which would stem from lessons learnt in the Latin Wars. I feel that is is somewhat appropriate for all nations to have rearmed to the best of their abilities. Aid having been funnelled in by various governments to support their preferred regimes against rivals. There might be high degrees of variation with both very old and brand new equipment in service.Daisy Gowan Ditchburnhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07476802587483833107noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1194749690795068416.post-41586572949854544662019-12-01T14:41:19.839-08:002019-12-01T14:41:19.839-08:00Wow! The Pan-Andean Peoples' Republic is bids...Wow! The Pan-Andean Peoples' Republic is bids fair to be a formidable opponent for somebody! The kit looks pretty appropriate from the mid-50s or so onward to the present, I reckon. My own 'history' of PAPR, Orotina and Gran Bolivaria was slated to end at about 1955 (roughly). Sounds as though all three nations might have used the end of hostilities and a general peace to import a whole lot of more up-to-date equipment!<br /><br />Your Vietnamese dudes I was thinking might be the sort of dwellers of swamp/jungle/mountainous country, lightly equipped with mountain guns, mortars, RPG-type AT, and reliant upon animal traction or portage. Very mobile on foot in thick country (that's where they live). <br /><br />Speaking of the Latin Wars, I really have done diddly-squat with them since I first dreamed up the idea over 30 years ago. But I did play out one border incident in which the PAPR tried to seize a small plain surrounded on 3 sides by hilly jungle country, and the border river. Three equally sized columns of infantry and tanks surged over the river, overran the border guards and pressed on. But the left hand column ran into an Orotinian force with Panthers that held, then pushed them back over the river. A flank guard in the centre road managed to hold the centre column long enough for the victorious Orotinian main group to counter-attack, whereat that columm, too, fetched up on the NW side of the river. By this time the right-hand column had reached the road junction, one branch of which led through the hill country, the other branching left along plain below the ridges. Apprehending the defeat of the other two columns, and the likely reinforcement of the still belligerent (though rather weakened) Orotinian battlegroup confronting them, this surviving column abandoned the offensive and slunk back across the border.<br /><br />This was never more than a probing operation by PAPR, though the Peoples' Committee would have liked to have taken the fertile small plain as a fairly easily defensible little conquest, and a bridgehead pending further incursions...Archduke Piccolohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15533325665451889661noreply@blogger.com