Vietnam extra miniatures wargame POLL (First Round!)

Hello everyone,

We are seeking opinions and feedback from gamers to select which additional types of miniatures are to be ADDED to “The War in Vietnam” game that is up on Kickstarter right now.

The War in Vietnam is already 1/3 funded in just over a week, so the creator (that’s me) and the designer would like to include even more sculpts in the game for free! (in addition to the 800+ the game already offers.) Please let us know your preferences.

Poll Rules: Anybody here on A&A.org can vote (even if you’re not pledging to get any game), and you can select up to seven (7) choices that you think would be neat additions. Remember, these will be added to the game’s 800+ miniatures free for backers of the campaign.

Suggestions: If you are unfamiliar with any of the miniatures we’ve listed for this poll, we encourage you to read about them on Wikipedia or so (All miniatures are historic, of course.) Besides learning some interesting things along the way, you may decide that something is really cool that you hadn’t considered.

Results: The poll will run for one week, but you can see the results as the poll goes along if you vote! You may also change your mind and change your votes if you wish (after, perhaps, you’ve read more about this or that helicopter or tank or whatever), and you can change your votes as many times as you’d like. After this poll is finished, we’ll do another poll (Round Two) to see who the finalists are! (which gives you another chance to modify your votes based on what wins Round One).  8-)

Thanks for your feedback,
Eric

Yes, just about.

Yes, every edition would get all the extra and new pieces (even the base edition!)

Thanks for backing the game!

Because of the way the castings are arranged, the Aussie could be gray (on the same cast as all the other gray units, like the aircraft carriers, the WW3 game’s British and Bund pieces, etc.), or simply olive green like the Americans (or possibly light green like the ARVN, although that might confuse it with the ARVN.) The only way to actually have another color is if we had a whole bunch of figures to do in that color (an unfortunate reality of the manufacturing process) :-)

At least he would be distinct.

Well I must say that the poll is very interesting so far.

At the moment, the frontrunners are:

AH-1 Cobra
US Marine
Vietnamese Village
H-34 Helicopter
Army Ranger
Viet Cong extra type
Earthen bunker
Australian and ROK Marine

However, the 155mm howitzer and M-50 Ontos are right behind.

Poll still has five days to go!

Thanks for participating,
Eric

Oh, you bet! I am excited to bring to this to everybody.

New ads will be going up this weekend, and I’ll have a new video on the Kickstarter page tomorrow (with any luck).

Narvik,

Firstly, thank you for backing the game!

As to the poll, yes, I have different polls out to gauge different preferences (and it’s just a matter of adding them all up). There are the backers (like you) and then there is the general public of gamers who have no vested interest in the game, per se. Kinda like the ‘wisdom of the crowd’ sort of thing. It is interesting, the various polls are very close to each other.

And, guess what, as a backer, you now get to vote twice! (the poll here and the poll once you actually back the game!)  :wink:

Regarding the video, yes, I have a new video planned. Hopefully it will be up by this evening, as a matter of fact.

As to BGG, I actually sent them of a bunch of images and the like, but they’re not exactly greased lightning as to when they get things up, and probably they’re even slower on the weekend. But more is coming, yes indeed!

Great idea about the WW3 game! I will do that (making its own BGG entry); thanks for the suggestion. It’ll probably take BGG a week to get that up, too, but better late than never. Great idea. That game will have a couple hundred pieces.

As to zombies, I’m going to stay well clear of that. I’m not involved with this game because of the money (that’s what it’s so cheap for all the stuff you get); I’m doing it because I am involved with Vietnam veterans projects in my personal time, and I just find the war very interesting for a number of reasons; this game is a chance to present the war in a game setting that anyone can play and actually understand the war while having a good time.

By the way, for anyone that does like zombies, I can recommend a good old classic movie called The Last Man on Earth (starring Vincent Price). One of the first zombie movies made, but still a good movie even these days. That’s about as far into zombies as I get, but a decent little movie.

Eric  :-D

Greatly appreciated. Everybody has until the last week of March when the Kickstarter campaign ends, so that might give you some time.

Even still, my man, prioritize that vacation! Life is short and you’ve got to enjoy it while you can.  8-)

Aha!  :-D

There IS a Hanoi Jane event card in the Communist’s event deck!

That’s great to hear!

This game is unique in that the topic is the designer’s singular passion, so it’s not merely the next variant, ya know. You walk away from each turn feeling like you have the secret new understanding of the Vietnam War.

I’ve designed and developed a lot of games professionally, but I had never quite seen a game like this, one that is simple and yet also historically accurate. Wargames should have been designed like this from the beginning.

:-)