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Originally Posted by Palle
-The Viet Minh are incredibly tough. They fight to the last man in most circumstances and you have to kill their squads to the last man. Even squads with a mere 1-3 men in them will rally and fight on. Their morale is thus higher than both the Waffen SS, the Foreign Legion and the Marines. This puzzles me somewhat, but they were tough little buggers. So it is sort of OK.
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For the record, the NVA Unit Experience and Unit Morale for that time period is rated at 75. Given they had been fighting the Japanese then the French this is fair. French Exp / Mor for that time period is 65 /70 which, under the circumstances is quite fair.
"Average" Legionaires for that time period ( which co-incidentally also included former Waffen SS troops ) is +15/15 which puts then significantly higher than the NVA/Viet Minh ( maybe too high....) so when you added 70+15 you get 85 and allowing for the random factors that's still above the NVA/Viet Minh 's 75 so
please explain how you arrived at the conclusion that "their morale is thus higher than both the Waffen SS, the Foreign Legion and the Marines" ..........
......when the best basic Waffen SS Morale possible would be 86 ( it could go a bit higher with when the randoms are factored in).In 1943 German Morale is rated 75 and the SS get an 11 boost=86 ) and the Foreign Legion in 1950 would rate an 70+15=85 Morale and the best the standard NVA/Viet Minh could musted is 75.
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A Bo Doi formation would get +10 but that just puts them equal with the Legion but those are elite troops. The regulars in that time period get +5 which puts them less than the Legion but equal to French Paras for that time period so both sides should be equally "tough"
Don