Panzerblitz: ACAV, Mechanized Warfare in Vietnam (5 scenarios)
From Design Notes (included in the download archive), By Alan R. Arvold:
"Back in 1973, in the magazine Jagdpanther #2, there was a Panzerblitz article titled “ACAV, Mechanized Warfare in Vietnam. The authors of this article were Rick Pavek and Steven Cole. It was another in the mass of armored warfare variants that came out in the early to mid Seventies that were based on the game Panzerblitz, both in professional and amateur periodicals. The article contained supplemental rules that would deal with the unique terrain that Viet Nam presented, plus simple rules for paradrops and helicopters. It also had two counter sheets printed on paper, which meant that they had to be mounted and cut out, and six map sheets which when put together made three Panzerblitz size mapboards. One strange thing about the mapsheets, there were no bridges where the roads crossed the
streams, only fords. (I guess the authors thought that Nam was so backward that they did not believe in
bridges.)
The article contained five scenarios. These scenarios were rather crude in their structure and organization. Victory conditions were very simple in all five, whoever scored more victory points in killed enemy units won. There were no victory points for objectives or units exited. Thus the scenarios in a sense became slaughter fests in their play and outcomes. The unit counters and unit organization in the scenarios were based on those of another game, namely SPI's “Red Star/White Star” (1972). It seems that the authors did not have access to information that the more professional designs were only just beginning to acquire at the time (the Federal Government was still operating in its Cold War mentality in that any information that was released was frequently laced with falsehoods and misinformation, after all we didn't want the Communists to find out what we were really up to). Thus the armored cavalry units will look strange in that they are still using M114s long after they were historically removed from Viet Nam and their organization is based on the ones that were being used in Europe at the time, not Viet Nam. Still I felt that these scenarios deserved inclusion in the Divided Ground: Viet Nam module and have taken it upon myself to convert them to that format. Here then are those scenarios."
My thanks for Alan R. Arvold for sharing these files with the CS community [:)]
