Dien Bien Phu (Legion Wargames)

Very nice, as usual

Joyeux Noël

Examples of counter (backside and frontside)



Only backside

I wish to make DBP a fast playing tournament game. I will introduce a make or break system. The Viet Minh places a regiment order marker on a French strongpoint. That regiment is now ordered to continue its assault until that strongpoint is reached and conquered. While reaching it, the regiment will suffer two consequences of its assault as well as battle results (in addition to losses). The consequences are fatigue and distress. The assault will continue with movement and fighting until the order marker is reached or the units reatreat - make or break.

After each movement and assault a unit gets increasingly tired until it gets exhausted (two sides of a marker). The more tired it gets the lower its effectiveness is. After each fighting, results of distress may accumulate. First is gets disrupted and then eventually shaken (again, two sides of a marker). So a unit that starts fresh will eventually end up both exhausted and shaken, but still able to fight though.

Along the way it might also get a battle result as surpressed, which will stop an assault. A regiment can continue until the steam blows off and hopefully it will have reached its objective before its battalions receive retreat results, perhaps due to their increasingly poor status.

The trick is to know how far in among the French the Viet Minh should place the order markers. To far in the units might not be able to reach it and take unnecessary losses in the process of their struggle to get there. Also, failure is not good for morale. Not far in enough, the gains might not be that impressive and, who knows, maybe you could have taken that extra strongpoint also. And, of course, success is good for morale.

Une idée quant à la date de parution ?

Realistically, next year.

C'est raisonnable.

Work is proceeding. This game will not be burdened by a lot of complex rules. This will be a tournament game and have one single rule: Assault!

Design is proceeding. It's going to be a great game.

http://www.kangerproject.com/DienBienPhu/

Au travail, plus vite, plus vite

Map is updated. Click on the link above.

As you can see, the picture is stylized into fewer and clearer colour fields at 600 dpi. This should work well when printed. I also wanted to make the icon almost physical with its big and dramatic picture. Perfect for companies clinging onto a hill at DBP.

Les choses semblent bien avancer, non ?

You mean they are too complex? Perhaps. I have adjusted them a bit now.

I have a marker in Dien Bien Phu showing on a track how much food the French have left. Will this do?

DBP graphics (map & counters) can be seen, as they are now:

http://talk.consimworld.com/WebX?8@@.1dd51d86

(message 166)

This last counter is a bit "cliché" isn't it ? A funny one indeed
You should maybe also add a "handball" counter as a symbol ?

I will probably in the end change the snail into a baguette to make it more conventional (or should I have a frog instead ).

But then, of course, there must "the alternative commander", as always

Très bon !

I'm looking at the order of battle in Dien Bien Phu on the 13 March. Could this be right?

Bétrice: 3/13 DBLE bn
Gabrielle: 5/7 RTA bn, thai co, 2 CMMLE ptn
Anne-Marie 1: 3 BT co
Anne-Marie 2: 3 BT co
Huguette 6: 3 BT co
Huguette 7: 3 BT co
Francoise: thai co
Huguette 1: 1/2 REI co
Huguette 2: 1/2 REI co
Huguette 3: thai co
Huguette 4: 1/2 REI co
Huguette 5: 1/2 REI co
Hguette 1-5: thai co (in any of the five Huguettes)
Dominique 1: 3/3 RTA co
Dominique 2: 3/3 RTA co, 2x 1 CEPML ptn
Dominique 3: 3/3 RTA co, 2/4 RAC bty, 31 BG co
Dominique 4: 3/3 RTA co, 2x 2/4 RAC bty
Dominique 5: 2 BT co
Dominique 6: - (was not constructed yet)
Eliane 1: 1/4 RTM co
Eliane 2: 1/4 RTM co
Eliane 3: 1/4 RTM co, 31 BG co
Eliane 4: 1/4 RTM co
Eliane 10: 4/4 RAC bty
Eliane 11 -
Eliane 12: 2x 2 BT co
Epervier: 2 BT co, 2x GAACEO (Epervier was not really constructed yet, so technically these units were at D4)
Airfield: 2x 8 BPC co, 2x 1 CMMLE ptn (At the southern tip of the airfield)
Claudine 1: 1 CEPML ptn, 2 CMMLE ptn, thai co
Claudine 2: 1/13 DBLE co
Claudine 3: 1/13 DBLE co
Claudine 4: 1/13 DBLE co
Claudine 5: 1/13 DBLE co
Claudine 1-5: thai co (in any of the five Claudines
HQ area: 2x 8 BPC co, 3/10 RAC bty, 7x M24, 3x 1 BEP co
Junon: 1 BEP co
Isabelle (Wieme): 3x thai co
Isabelle: 2/1 RTA bn, 3/3 REI bn, 2x 3/10 RAC bty, 3x M24 (But in which strongpoints were they?)

I'am not a specilist enough to state if that's perfectly right

And you call yourself French

I'am not French, I'am Roman

And I'm Viking, therefore Norman, therefore British, therefore European, therefore a modern Roman...too