This Vietnam mod will adapt all the game to Vietnam war. First, Us human side vs IA Vietminh (guerilla infantry without guns and tanks), and in second time, I will perhaps add a North vietnam regular army oob (with AA weapons, guns, tanks)
The reason of this mod : I noticed that the game engine is more adapted to guerilla wars than to "regular war (I observed that the IA tactics are very oft to attacks in a place, and then go away, and then attack again, etc)
The helicos (Huey, OH-6A, CH-34 dog, etc) are in fact armored units with new special icon + special speed parameters :
MaximumSpeedRoad=999
MaximumSpeedRough=999
Helicos have HMG, phosphore grenades and napalm. They are very fast, dangerous and efficient to search and destroy vietminh squads or to do reco operations. Logistic helicos (medical, supply, Command) have now their special place with house rules : these rules complicate the work of USside (human side) vs Vietminh IA : units with heavy casualties are less efficient because human player have to use medical and command unit to "rally" these units (see house rules above). So, in battle, the human player have to limit casualties. If he does not, the risk is that his units become unawailable on the battlefield without medical and command support . But medical and command support has a price in the oob, and you can not buy a lot of command and medical units without accept to have less fighting units in operation...
The us side must also take care to ammunition stock of his units : if not, he will have to use "ammo" unit to be able to give new fire orders (house rules)
I have to use some little house rules, waiting Mister Johnson Sean O'Connors reinforcements in Vietnam
The mod works fine. I will upload it somewhere when it was finished
But I will have to do : I have 4 or 5 kind of helicos, and I will have to calibrate their respective speed.