AAR: The Walking Dead

[Suhiir]

Apache? In 1967? Look again.

It's an AAR, feel free to say what you like as the "point" is to tell us what you thought, when, about what; and what you did to react to it.

[FASTBOAT TOUGH]

I hope this is going alright and isn't to long in description.

I've decided to just post the last two screenshots from TURN 12. Still in Clockwise fashion. I think for continuity's sake, it's best to post the turns in a separate posts.


Turn 12 SE Corner
Not much happening here, but you'll note what my Sea Knight helos and mostly my COBRA gunships unmasked for me. You might notice the 2nd Cobra flying towards FBD, flying over the road on the WEST edge. At the first flag to the EAST you'll see how far my jeep got before it was ambushed very early in the game, so I know the NVA are in those trees. Where the road runs off the map to the SOUTH, you'll find my Sniper in the trees with full LOS of the flags to the NORTH/ACROSS and one further to the SOUTH where the road swings to the RIGHT and off the map to the EAST. In the trees by each of the flags in the SE corner in ambush positions, sits a Recon Section w/supporting LOS to cover those flags/Sniper and beyond. Those arrived on TURN 5. This was a Intel Goldmine for me as it set mind to future plans with the hope that some of any future reinforcements would come overland at some point. But again the "wheels were turning" and I just needed the tools to get the job started.



TURN 12 SW Corner
On the NORTH side of the river you'll again see the situation I was in around Fire Base Dragon (FBD) and my 2 Cobra Gunships coming in from the EAST "on the road" they would help me in many ways while I had them. The 1st attack came from SOUTH of the river and, it was sizeable by the VC, they were "MOTIVATED". If you don't "Buckle Down" right off I can see where some might get overwhelmed to a degree, this reminded me of the Ia Drang Valley in 1965. Except you have the advantage of having a "cozy" FB for your guys. It only rained Mortar/B-40/Heavy Artillery occasionally, OK, that's not quite true. You will get pounded early and in cycles throughout. I literally EVERY SINGLE TURN hit that MORALE button for every unit in FBD. AND I'M GLAD I DID IT!! I don't know if I would've exhausted all the turns this Scenario allows for at 60 Turns otherwise. If I'm wrong on that (turns) please Suhiir correct me.

Going to enjoy the rest of this night before it's back to work for me.

And if Don you're looking in after I get all these posted, I'll start my submission checks from the last patch in a more "organized" fashion, however, in a "catch as catch can" I haven't come across any issues.

Regards,
Pat

[FASTBOAT TOUGH]

I went to delete the pictures from IMGUR from my profile page and came back here to review a couple of things and found the pictures I deleted gone from the post as well. As things were fairly "static" from Turn 12 through 17 in those areas, I'm posting below the Turn 17/12 pictures below. They were originally on Page 1/POST #9.

I have modified the write up for the 1st one below.

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Turn 12 N.W. Corner
In the upper right corner those 2 Marines still someone forgot about them but there was suppression issues with the one surviving Recon Engineer as well. Both would go onto to win the Medal of Honor. They just took out a 37mm AA unit (W/Loss of 2 Recon Engineers) at their current position and the B40 Rocket sites just to the East. They would further take out several mortar sites as well as the game progresses. You'll note the first of 3 Sea Knight helos in the "gunship" mode at bottom middle. They're heading towards the open area 300m to the North of that helo shown. Air attacks in that area showed smoke, which at the time convinced me there's mortars positioned there.

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Turn 12 Lower S.W. Fire Base Dragon
Showing my fire suppression missions with threat axis to the North and S.W. You can also see the heavy fighting that occurred to the South near the main gate and you can see where I lost my tank around Turn 10 as well.

Sorry for the screw up. Not sure what to do about deleting them IMGUR without deleting them from here.

HOWEVER THAT'S FOR ANOTHER DAY!

I'm off for my daily walk.

Regards,
Pat