OMG! These ARVN units are so weak!

[Ronzy]

I have been an avid player of this game for several months, but I have mostly focused on US vs VC/NVA scenarios.

I am currently engaged with a scenario with ARVN forces vs NVA forces (Hill 50 - Alabama Ticks), and the ARVN performance in this scenario is just atrocious. ARVN Paratroopers (the supposed "elite" that the ARVN have to offer), are just massacred left and right against NVA regulars. OMG ... they can hardly hold anything, and the NVA regulars have the upper hand in everything they do against the ARVN.

I now see why a previous poster says (summarized) that he "likes to play ARVN against the game because it is a challenge." The ARVN are so weak against the AI controlled NVA Regulars (constantly taking heavy casualties, becoming disrupted, and retreating) that the game becomes a WW1 fight in the trenches type simulation where 1:1 bloody casualty counts are the rule of the game. I am aghast (because, up to this point, I have been focusing on the scenarios that are primarily US forces versus VC/NVA forces).

Wow! And I suppose that this, in the grand scheme of things, is that the game is showing how ARVN forces 1:1 versus NVA is a 1:1 blood bath that could not be won.

Just wow!

[Jason Petho]

Exactly, right?

They are definitely paper tigers.

There are some decent troops, but they are rare. The Rangers (NOT ALL), Marines and Airborne. But alas, not all are created equal.

I recently did that scenario as well, there's a video on my channel, it was rough. Really rough.