Vietnam 5e

Aarakocra (birdmen) would be super cool as the indigenous defenders. I'm imagining them hiding in foggy canopies, swirling down and death-from-aboving the invaders.

VC: Goblins
USA: Dwarves
It doesn't offer the 2 kinds of vietnamese (one allied one opposing to the 'invader'), but it gives you an easy kind of superiors tech+superiority complex+severe stubbornnes. Also potentially gyrocopters and all the other tech to truly cheese it up. The reason for zhe dwarves to invade would be resources. Thinking about it it's the standard scenario for dwarves anyway, but not under the earth.
ALSO forest goblins are best goblins.

>>52110813
I also thought they would be cool! But my other idea was maybe Tabaxi (cat people) or perhaps a variant of Eladrin? (Misty step for diversions) or a new subspecies of Dire Elves?

>>52110769

>trap ideas

Hidden trenches, spike pits, tripwire explosives.

Just fucking google Vietnam war traps.

>>52110854
Fuck me, I didn't read the whole last sentence. I thought it was just a generic fantasy homebrew.

>>52110889
>B-but magic

You could probably make some dope glyph of warding traps or stuff like that. Magical landmines.

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>>52110925
>Magical landmines.

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>>52111001
Think about it.
>Explosive Runes: When triggered, the glyph erupts with magical energy in a 20-foot-radius Sphere centered on the glyph. The Sphere spreads around corners. Each creature in the aura must make a Dexterity saving throw. A creature takes 5d8 acid, cold, fire, lightning, or thunder damage on a failed saving throw (your choice when you create the glyph), or half as much damage on a successful one.

Literally blow up pleb knights + it would severely highten the tension of travelling through a thick, damp, dark jungle, with wild elves running around and a potential 5d8 being stepped on.

>make a dex save for me please

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>>52111080

If you put the rune on a metal, or stone slab, you could make it a proper landmine

>>52111131
Doesn't even have to be an object, just a magical rune on the ground, covered by leaves/dirt.

How devilish.

>>52110769
Im running this now
Wood elves as vc
Dwarves are russians
High elves are china
Conglomorate/mostly humans as America.

Astral bomb landmines/boobie traps
Little kids blowing themselves up w/ shoeshine bombs al la rambo bactstpry
Gyrocopters

Shit's cash

>>52110769
Invading army: Hobgoblins - organized, militaristic, industrious, pack a decent punch for their CR.
Defending army: Halflings - not the stereotypical jolly kind, these guys are one hell of a nasty fuckers.

Optional Twist: There's shapeshifter or illusionist double agent that's playing the sides against each other and escalates the conflict whenever it would mellow down. His real goal is unknown.

>>52110769
>>empire army
Dragonborn
>>rebel army
Lizardman

>>52116215
Made them red chromatic dragonborn because napalm.

And the Lizardman being supply by elf because red army support commies

>>52111167
Yeah, but shrapnel > explosive force

>>52111167
I could see doing like >>52111131 said, putting it on a stone slab. You could have a wizard in a tunnel somewhere carving them onto flat stones and handing them out to infiltrator to slip through the wire at night to lay on trails and roads.