All,
Got the Vietnam figures painted up yesterday, let's get it on! It's September 25, 1967, the Brigade has been on the ground in the 'Nam for four whole days and has troops out on patrol. Someone up high is looking at for them, so the squad is sent east along Highway 20 (made up) instead of west, where all the recent contact has been. SSgt Bleier is able to muster a full complement of troops, and so all eleven men are on the move.
The squad has been in a Ranger file coming down Hwy 20, but up ahead it opens up for a bunch of rice paddies and the village of Ap Bac 14. SSgt Bleier gives the hand signal and Sgt Greene begins fanning fireteam 1 out into skirmish line to the north of the Hwy, while Sgt Russell continues with fireteam 2 down Hwy 1. SSgt Bleier is standing in the road, kind of scratching his head at the sight of all the locals didi mau-ing out of the area. It doesn't take him but a second to realize this coincides with his making a tactical error, a rookie mistake, 'getting caught with both feet in the air." SSgt Bleier's squad has hit a likely ambush site and has both of his fireteams on the move in the open… He had just opened his mouth to holler when the first shots rang out…
Overview, north is up. The US squad is at left (west), moving east on Hwy 20, near the intersection with Hwy 30 At top right (NE) is Hill 25, bottom right is the village of Ap Bac 14. Fireteam 1 is north of Hwy 20 in skirmish line, while fireteam 2 has moved south off the road but is still in file. SSgt Bleier is standing on the road. Civvies are trying to leave the area via the west, north, and south board edges. Enemy forces are present in north (on board edge, just west of Hwy 30), on Hill 25, and in the ville. They are all unspotted.
Team 1 getting it's butt handed to it; red beads are serious wounds, yellow beads are light wounds, and dead guys are, well, dead guys…
Enemy mortar rounds start falling…
Doc White sprints back out into the paddy, grabs Sgt Greene, and drags him back to safety (second time he did so, previously he rescued Spec4 Harris), while PFC Swan drags himself over to Doc. Stallworth, previously sitting at the embankment for Hwy 20, sprints across the highway out into the paddy, grabs PFC Blount, and drags him back to Doc.
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Both sides got bloodied, US took too many casualties. A fun game, with more write-ups on the way.
V/R,
Jack
is back from Council of Five Nations.
