Total War: Ia Drang You can use the Flames Of War Total War rules to recreate the entire battle at Ia Drang. Gather your friends and field the full 1st Battalion, 7th Cavalry plus two additional companies of Airmobile infantry from 2nd Battalion. Or muster up the full 66th Regiment of the People’s Army of Vietnam.

Use the orders of battles on these pages to organise your forces as they appeared on 14 November 1965. You can download the Total War rules from the Flames Of War website, www.FlamesOfWar.com and use the Hot LZ mission to replay the first day of the battle. You might want to consider using a larger table or combining two tables to give each side more manoeuvre room for their increased forces.

Bigger Games - Bigger Victories Total War allows you to bring the big game to your game table and involve more than one friend in the fun. You can bring big armies to big tables a fight to the finish with everyone’s miniatures collection involved. With more than one company to command the possibilities are endless in developing the right strategies to lead your force to victory.

Tips for Fielding Large Formations When fielding large armies make sure the terrain and battlefield are conducive to moving these formations. Too much terrain can hinder moving a lot of figures while too little terrain can make it nearly impossible to close for battle as the killing fields are wide open and infantry charges become almost suicidal.

In addition, if you don’t have enough room for all your forces to fit on the table then they become prime targets for indirect weapons. Also, keep the total points used on both sides equal in terms of how many points each player will command. This prevents the game from slowing down while one player managing 200 points is trying to keep up with two players each managing 100 points. Also if you have each player handling more than 150 points apiece make sure you have allotted enough time to play the battle to an acceptable conclusion. Strategies with larger armies will take more time to execute especially with infantry-dominated forces.

Finally, when playing on large tables it is always good to have extra support materials like more than one tape measure, artillery template, and sets of dice. With massive amounts of men on the board expect to roll an equivalent amount of dice!