"Operation Rush Delivery, Fight #5" Topic

All,

It's 0534 on 20 July 1990, and the invasion of Avalor, a small Caribbean island-nation near Cuba, upon which Castro-regime holdovers have been organizing, training, and launching attacks on the homeland, is underway. Previously three Reconnaissance and Surveillance teams from 10th Special Forces Group were inserted to support the invasion; one is in position in OP India, but the second team was compromised and extracted, and the third team (Rebel 33) was ambushed and wiped out. Now 1st Lieutenant Huerta's 18th Grenadier Guards of the 6th Parachute Battalion are jumping from C-130s onto three separate Drop Zones (DZs) in the pre-dawn darkness. They will immediately form up and march on their objectives, the terrorist training areas and barracks on Avalor, manned by terrorist trainees and their Venezuelan and Iranian trainers.

In the last two fights we saw Lt Jaramiho's 1st Platoon successfully seize DZ Crow and Lt Escobedo killed in action while trying, unsuccessfully, to secure DZ Bluebird. Here we pick up the action at DZ Albatross, where bad guys alerted by the earlier firefights are watching paratroopers of 2nd Lieutenant Reyna's 3rd Platoon descend and crash to the earth.

Overview, north is up. We've got a small village spread across the map from south to north, a dirt road running east-west with a sub-net running south and back west off of it, several crop fields, and scattered jungle. The table is 3' x 2' and I'm playing these fights solo using Ivan's "Five Men at Kursk," slightly modified to get a more modern (and deadly) feel.

A Cuban paratrooper punches out one of the bad guys. To see how the fight went, please check the blog at:
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I took a bit of extra time to go back and name (or at least ID) all the Cuban troops, hopefully it made for an easier read. I'm looking at about four more fights to seal up Operation Rush Deliver: two platoon+ sized fights, one to take each objective, and two small SOF hits (Unit 101 taking down the HVTs), plus the dogfights over Havana. Coming right up!

V/R,
Jack

"Fresh from cleaning out his drawers". Best line so far Jack. Glad you named the Goat. Julio praying may not go over too well with his fraternal socialist brothers but as they say "there are no atheists in foxholes".One more for the "good guys". Still rooting for the bad guys even though I know how its going to turn out (I think).

JJ – Thanks man, I appreciate it, and the next batrep coming up on Thursday.

Defender – Thanks bud, and hopefully the batrep was easier to follow than some of the previous ones. Regarding Julio praying, you've got to remember, this is Free Cuba! Julio is a Catholic, capitalist, democrat! I.e., the good guys!

Stop rooting for the bad guys, ya damn Commie! ;)

V/R,
Jack

Awesome ! ..'Julio cleans off his bayonet ….'

Thanks Jimmi! Anything come in the mail yet?

V/R,
Jack