Plated a bit of the Ildrang module. Not bad, but as usual, not a finished product.
Good points
Good, clear map.
Includes helicopters! Including slicks with door MGs, attack choppers with forward firing fixed MGs and either a 40mm grenade launcher or 100mm rockets. Only one of the seven scenarios uses the slicks (8 slicks landing a reinforcements into a hot LZ. Four scenarios include attack choppers as air support. There are even chopper leaders, much the same as armour leaders.
The helicopter rules make up five and a half of the seven pages of rules. I haven’t played a scenario with helicopters yet, but the rules seem reasonably sound.
Air support also includes two types of aircraft, the A-1 “SPAD” and F-100 Super Sabre.
The US counters are airborne troops with 7-5-8 squads and 3-4-8 half squads. Perhaps the morale level is a bit high, my preference would be for 7-5-7s to maintain the same morale as the normal ASL morale level for US airborne.
M79 grenade launchers do not appear as weapons, instead using an SMC “Thumper Gunner, who is a hero armed with an M79, stats are 3-4-9. Don’t know about these ones. A firepower of 3 is of little impact, so the counter is best used as a normal hero.
NVA are 5-4-8 elite squads, 5-4-7 1st line, 3-4-7 2nd line and 3-3-6 Conscripts. VC are 4-2-7 squads and 2-2-7 half squads.
Not so great.
M60 is considered a MMG has an RoF of 2, firepower of 6 (!), a range of 10 and is 3pp. Seems like a M60 on tripod, but nothing in the rules about it.
The rules and counters show RPG2 with an IFT equivalent of 12 and the LATW with an IFT equivalent of 16, yet the scenario cards show counters for both only having an IFT equivalent of 4 for both.
Why are they included? There are no buildings or walls on the map, and no AFVs in the game.
The rules include counters for NVA snipers as 1-1-8 SMC (aka the old SL snipers) with a IFT modifier of -4 (-3 if wounded). They are not, however, included in the scenarios, instead two of which include “sniper half squads”. These set up HIP anywhere on the map, including, apparently, within the US setup area. These units are 2-3-8 mmc but have a -2 IFT modifier, and normal range doubled for their first shot, being treated normally thereafter.