Vietnam Combat Operations update

[r6kunz]

[quote]ORIGINAL: r6kunz

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[cathar1244]

Some parts of the jungles were sandy. An Loc was terre rouge- red laterite planted with rubber plantations.

Mmm, quite red! Wonder if the soil has a high iron content. Reminds me a bit of Georgia clay.

Cheers

[r6kunz]

Cathar, Indeed a high iron content gives the red color. Not suitable for use as iron ore, but in parts of Vietnam, it is used to fashion rock-hard bricks for a tradition homes.

[r6kunz]

Great news re TOAW IV and Vietnam Combat Operations! I reached out to Stéphane and received this reply:


Stéphane Moutin-Luyat
Fri, Feb 15, 11:32 PM (6 days ago)
Hello Robert, Tried to send you a reply on my other mail address but it bounced back. You have my permission to reuse and alter the vco scenarios of course.

[larryfulkerson]

Damn good news. Thanks.

[r6kunz]

Yes, Larry, good news indeed.
I am road testing them now. I had FedEx printing print off all of the Documentation $150 in a looseleaf binder. They look sharp and a lot easier to use the detailed OpOrders.
I just finished Vol 1. A draw, but very informative of 1965.

I will try to get thru the first three turns of all fourteen volumes.
I will then get zip file off to you.
cheers
Rob

[Bamilus]

Looking forward to this

[Cabido]

+1

[cathar1244]

ORIGINAL: r6kunz

Great news re TOAW IV and Vietnam Combat Operations! I reached out to Stéphane and received this reply:


Stéphane Moutin-Luyat
Fri, Feb 15, 11:32 PM (6 days ago)
Hello Robert, Tried to send you a reply on my other mail address but it bounced back. You have my permission to reuse and alter the vco scenarios of course.

Very well liaised, RAK. And thanks to Stéphane as well.

Cheers

[Bamilus]

any updates on this?

[r6kunz]

Here is Stéphane MOUTIN LUYAT Vietnam Combat Operations, Vol 1. I have played it through and I found no blitzes.
Let me know if there is any problem, and keep me posted.

[Plochan]

Thank you.
This was one of main reasons for me to buy this game.[&o]

[r6kunz]

Thanks much for the feedback.
I found a couple of clitches- One minor with a major impact; After Volume 3, the ARVN Battations have a B-52 in their TOE! And cannot move, even when free to do so. I discovered in the New Equipment the US Advisor Team and the B-52G were in adjacent slots. So I transposed them and now the ARVN can move out with their advisor team.

A second glitch: in the last two Volumes that were completed (13 and 14, 1970): the equipment for the Cambodian units and some of the NVA supply bases were "Empty". I have not heard back from Stéphane, but have back engineered the units. I am currently playing the Vol 14, covering the incursion into Cambodia. It is probably the best in the series.

The research Stéphane MOUTIN LUYAT has put into this series is just incredible. Perhaps on the scale of detail as FITE, but more playable because of the each volume has an endpoint. And can be played (only) US/RVN (player) vs NVA/VC(PO). Too bad he does not plan on completing it,

As a tip, each turn (roughly a month) has a list of the actual operations and objectives. Victory points are associated with these, and are required to have a chance at a US/RVN victory. So print off the Documents that include the Chronology with teh Operatins and Ojectives.

I hope to get this over to Larry Fulkerson to include inte Recent Scenarios shortly, and thence to the next Update.

[cathar1244]

I discovered in the New Equipment the US Advisor Team and the B-52G were in adjacent slots. So I transposed them and now the ARVN can move out with their advisor team.

I wonder if any B-52 units now show flying advisor teams [:)]

Cheers

[comte]

Any updates on these being released?

[Aetius_Varras]

Would anyone happen to have a hi-res screen capture of the 4K map? Once again, the game says the map is too big to save.

[comte]

ORIGINAL: r6kunz

Here is Stéphane MOUTIN LUYAT Vietnam Combat Operations, Vol 1. I have played it through and I found no blitzes.
Let me know if there is any problem, and keep me posted.

Ok I gave this a go. The custom graphics are not working. Like for example MACV icon is not showing. Anybody know if I can fix this? I put it in the graphics override folder.

[BigDuke66]

If it's the graphics override folder of the game, that one is not working.
For graphics to be used put it in the graphics override folder under the Users path of the C drive.

[r6kunz]

I created a Scenario folder, Vietnam Combat Operations, in C:/ Program Files(x86)---> Matrix Games ---> Operational Art of War IV---> Scenarios ---> Vietnam Combat Operations.

I then went to Stéphane MOUTIN LUYAT aka Boonierat website:

https://sites.google.com/site/vietnamco ... tions/Home

Then download the scenario(s) you want (the small blue down arrow on the bottom right), and unzipped the scenario into your new VCO folder. Open and save (to convert to TOAW IV.

It has been some time since I did this, but I believe all of the components of the scenario will be in that folder. Any problems, I bet '66 can help us out.

This will need to be done for each of the fourteen scenarios. I will see if Larry Fulkerson can put this folder into one download. I will also see if Bob Cross can incorporate this folder in the next TOAW update now Stéphane has released it. (thanks again, Stéphane, if you are out there.)

I understand Stéphane does not plan any additional scenario past fourteen July 1970.

[r6kunz]

Greetings,
While research the web for Stéphane MOUTIN LUYAT website, above, I came across this interesting article that me anxious to look at this again.

https://ettubluto.wordpress.com/2019/02 ... /#comments

This might be a place to mention Boonierat's very unique addtion to the wargame genre'. He provided a very in depth manual that includes a week-by-week outline of the war, and the operations (think Operation Cedar Falls, etc.) and Missions (establish CIDG camp 25,47). Each of these are awarded VP, in addition to the usual VP for towns and destroyed units.