Ahistorical OOBs in HPS SBs

[TheBigRedOne]

I took the time today to scan through a couple of scenarios where I was familiar with the units involved. Indeed, none matched. Here is the blurb from the manual that explains everything.

The memory of the Vietnam War is still very real today, both in the minds of those that served and those of their families. Many who served did not return and many of those that did return, returned with strong feelings about their experience that they will carry with them for the rest of their lives. In the making of the Vietnam versions of the Squad Battles games, there was a desire not to invoke unwelcome personal feelings about the war, either in the individuals who served or their families. Therefore, a decision was made in the design of the Vietnam games not to use actual names of the leaders, even when they were readily available through the historical record. Likewise, the assignment of quality of those leaders was made in a purely random fashion based on the situation and not according to any judgement as to the abilities of the actual leader. Since there is also an assignment of quality to individual units and there was no intention to cause this to become a reflection of the quality of the historical units, the organization name and structure is also designed to be generic. Although this results in a certain non-specific character to the game in this regard, it is felt that this is preferable to making any personal identification to someone or an organization in an unappreciated way. It is hoped that no one misinterprets this result in a negative fashion as a careless attention to detail but rather understands the result by its intent.

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What "We Were Soldiers" painted was an awful movie. As in Lone Wolf McQuade awful or "Wow, I cant believe people actually got paid for this". The book it was adapted from, We were soldiers once.. and young, while it was a hard read was much better

Interestingly, Hal Moore had some input into the movie and was very satisfied with it. Clearly there was a great deal of Hollywoodization of it, especially the final battle scene where Moore leads a bayonet charge on the NVA camp...