Great pictorial Charlie Don’t Surf AAR from the archives of Kevin Gonzales.
A surprise NVA human wave attack led to the American first platoon being overwhelmed. After overrunning 1st Platoon the NVA was able to get within six inches of the company commander, who was forced to call napalm on his own position!
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Absolutely brilliant pictorial AAR from John Savage and chums, who played one of the scenarios from the Lard Magazine: Relief of the MACV Compound during the Tet Offensive.
Click on the photo below to see all, but highly, highly recommended:
Fantastic-looking After Action Report from Alex Sotheran of #stormofsteelwargaming featuring the first scenario from the Surf’s Up! scenario pack for Charlie Don’t Surf. Plenty of great pictures, and there’s even a video.
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Here’s another pictorial AAR from Kevin G taken from the Charlie Don’t Surf Facebook Group.
Some superb looking action from another river assault game. I’d love to get my figures onto this terrain!
Here’s a Charlie Don’t Surf AAR from May that I missed on the CDS Facebook Group: Kevin G running two Battle for Hue games at Kublecon:
Here are some fantastic pictures from Kevin G. taken from the Charlie Don’t Surf Facebook group featuring an assault from a brown river force in Vietnam:
Kevin G posted some great pictures of the two Battle of Hue games of Charlie Don’t Surf that he ran at Kublacon this year onto the CDS Facebook Group. Here they are again for those who don’t do the ‘book.
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Also on show at the Lardy Games Day A Writtle Bit of Lard was a great looking game of Charlie Don’t Surf put on by Nick Bellamy.
Here are some pics, also from Ian Roberts, but this time from the CDS Facebook Group:
And as Preparation Prevents Piss-Poor Performance, here are some shots of the playtest that Nick ran a few weeks before:
Yesterday, Milton Hundred Wargames Club demoed a game of Charlie Don’t Surf at SELWG.
They had a load of interest, plenty of people stopping and asking after the rules…who later went over to the TFL stand! A big shout out to Full Metal Miniatures for printing the sampans as a test. They’ll be on his web store soon!
Here are some pictures of the game, posted onto the CDS Facebook Group by Steve Thomas.
Russell Smith posted some great pictures from a recent game of Charlie Don’t Surf onto the CDS Facebook group.
Check them out below:
You can find lots more CDS AARs here.
Steve Thomas from the Milton Hundred Wargames Club took a game of Charlie Don’t Surf to the Rapture Festival last weekend. The scenario was inspired by the Battle of Snoopy’s nose.
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Nick Bellamy and chums played through the Fix and Destroy scenario from the Charlie Don’t Surf scenario pack, Surf’s Up, again last week.
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I haven’t yet managed to get to a Deep Fried Lard yet, but good to see plenty of Lardy gaming taking place last weekend.
One of the games played was a CDS scenario taken from the Surf’s Up scenario pack.
Click on the pic below to see Alastair McBean’s AAR:
This Saturday just gone saw the inaugural Clotted Lard games day at the Devon Wargames Group. At what will hopefully be an annual event, large numbers of fellow Lardies gathered for a fun-packed day of gaming.
You can read the after action report of the games day itself by clicking here.
One of the games on show was a superb 10mm game of Charlie Don't Surf! put on by DaveJ. Click on the picture below to see a quick AAR from Carojon, accompanied by more photos of what looks like a most impressive game:
Here's something we haven't had for some time: an after action report for Charlie Don't Surf!
This is taken from the CDS Facebook group, and involves a small force of US troops conducting a sweep through a village searching for rice and weapon caches.
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Charles Eckart has sent through a nice little Charlie Don't Surf! after action report.
Here we see the US carrying out a Search & Destroy mission: a company of 173 Brigade infantry reinforced by three ACAV tracks and three M48A3 tanks searches for the newly arrived NVA 95B regiment that is trying to establish a base in South Viet Nam near the Cambodian border.
It is an unusual game, in that the PAVN forces are strong enough to put up a semi-conventional fight combined with guerrilla tactics.
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Last week, I mentioned Dan Wade's superb blog Wade's World of Wargaming. Well, last year, Dan put on a Vietnam demo game at Call to Arms using Charlie Don't Surf! and a mash-up of a couple of scenarios from the CDS scenario pack, Surf's Up!
Dan reported on the demo game, and how he later played it through to a conclusion at home, over a series of blog posts which (and I hope he doesn't mind) that I have combined into one glorious battle report.
Click on the pic below to see his superb terrain and figures:
Dan Wade writes a great wargaming blog called Wade's World of Wargaming. There are loads of great posts and great pictures showing off Dan's collection of beautifully painted figures and terrain.
One of Dan's particular interest is Vietnam, so here's a very quick pic-only AAR from the period which I hope he doesn't mind me reproducing here. The game features a bit of tank-only action: click on the pic below to see all...
A quick Charlie Don't Surf! battle report from the Dr Fischer's Game Night blog dating back to 2014.
Based on a real encounter, with information from the actual after action reports, the game doesn't go quite as the umpire had planned...
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A final Charlie Don't Surf! battle report lifted from the, I think, defunct, Tao of Lard blog (no posts since 2013).
Here a company of US troops are tasked with checking a village for caches of rice...but will Charlie let them go about their work unmolested?
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