Written by Mark Heel and published by Partizan Press, Leith-on-Sea, Essex, UK, 1990, for $7.00, Nam is intended as a fast set of company/battalion level rules designed for use with 1/200 scale miniatures. The troop scale is 1:1, with troops based by fours. The ground scale is one millimetertothe meter. Play is sequential, the various tactical rules being explained as the sequence is described, in only four pages. Basic morale rules and spotting rules are included, as well as normal fire and movement. Nam provides a reasonable equipment list (noOntos, but III live), three pages of organizational tables, a page of painting and terrain making advice, and two pages of campaign rule suggestions, along with a simple map. The intended player span of control is a US/ARVN battalion or a VC/NVA regiment. Though notas detailed as manyof the otherrules sets on the market, Nam accomplishes its goal - to push troops around without a lot of bookkeeping and provide an enjoyable game. Reviewing Stand Houston 1/900 Ships Russo-Japanese War GHQ 1/2400 WWII and Napoleonic Ships Panzershiffe 1/2400 Ships Skytrex 1/3000 WWII Ships Elan Enterprises 30mm Willie Dixon 25mm Napoleonic French in Egypt Two Dragons 15mm Sikh and Indian Wars Connoisseur 15mm Napoleonics Two Dragons 15mm Samurai and Vikings RSM 15mm Franco-Prussian Figures GHQ 1/285 WWII Pacific Napoleon's Battles Rules Featherstone's Complete Wargaming Book Fire and Fury ACW Rules Rules for Ancient Miniatures Rules Battles for Empire Napoleonic Rules Supreme Warlord Ancient and Renaissance Campaign Rules A Little More Grape, Capt. Bragg Mexican-American Wargames Rules The Napoleonic Source Book Les Gens Braves Franco-Prussian Wargames Rules Mitrailleuses and Machine Guns Book Prussian Infantry in the War of 1870-71 Soult: Napoleon's Maligned Marshal Book Kriegspiel 1824 Dutch Army of William III Booklets Napoleon's Grand Army 1813 Book GHQ Normandy Terrain Booklet Tiger, Tiger, Burning Bright WWII Rules Nam Vietnam Wargame Rules Soldiers of the ECW (1) Infantry The Red Army of the Great Patriotic War 1941-1945 Booklet GDW's ASW Forms Booklet Ardennes 1944 Remember the Maine, To Hell With Spain Booklet Back to Table of Contents -- Courier Vol. IX No. 5 Back to Courier List of Issues Back to Master Magazine List © Copyright 1990 by The Courier Publishing Company. This article appears in MagWeb.com (Magazine Web) on the Internet World Wide Web. Other articles from military history and related magazines are available at http://www.magweb.com