Not Here! Not Now! (No spoilers)

[Weeble]

I'm up to turn 6, ARVN won't rally, think the SEALS have messed up and the F*****s still keep coming/appearing.

Nice one WBW, this is a real challenge!

I am hoping careful target selection and 'superior firepower' will dig me out of this mess. However...

Weeble

[Weeble]

Turn 10

"Sunray is down" !!!

Just lost my (damaged)A0 (MACV Local HQ) to a misplaced COIN strike as I was trying to 'lean into' on a counter-attack from the pocket I had been forced into! Typical, as I felt I had started to contain the enemy into a definite area (all around me). I think this needs to be a case of "Sauve qui peut ". Shame about the General (and the SEALS) though...

If I remember correctly "Arc Light" is what I'd be begging for now, though given the historical basis re attacks on other bases/towns across Vietnam I would probably be at the bottom of the pecking list, plus flight times from Guam ...

No, f**k 'em, I don't want to eat brown rice for the rest of my life (which will be very short unless I get out of here). I will try a "retire to prepared positions" and get a ML out of this.

Rorke's Drift with 'Fifth Columnists', Napalm and performing SEALS?

Excellent scenario!!!!


Weeble

[Weeble]

Endex

"Down in Flames"

Went down to a DL, the lost objectives and the General(RIP) didn't allow for the casualties I inflicted in a high-speed retrograde deployment with the forces I still could control/rally to swing it to my hoped for ML....

Thoroughly enjoyable, 5 Stars *****

Andy "Weeble" Weaver

[desh44]

Try this one again Weeble it is winnable...not easily but you can get a decisive victory out of it
Good Luck
Tom D

[WBWilder]

Hey Weeble. WOw! Good reports. Thanks for the news from the front. Westmoreland will be speaking to you personally about this. Right now he is "entertaining" NVA and VC in Saigon during this horrid Tet Offensive.

Yes, it is winnable, but most will not do it the first time. I designed it and still got a draw the first time I played it. After a dozen or so replayings, I got my decisive.

Some hints are below, but do not read unless you have run out of options.

Sorry! Time ran out. Weeble wants this one "no spoilers." I'll take care of that right now.

Even so, its a nailbiter all the way.

WB

[scJazz]

Hey WB,

MV with 61 US/ARVN casualties (KIA/WIA) versus a body count of 330 VC.

TO: MACV HQ
FROM: Lt Colonel Watson
RE: Enemy Action During Tet

Our base near Ben Tre came under heavy attack by main force VC elements along with infiltrators and ARVN traitors. The attack lasted for around 1 hours and only timely intervention by patrol boat units and Navy SeaWolfs prevented my HQ from being overrun. During the attack General Kao (referred to as Warlord Fat Cat in earlier reports) was successfully evacuated along with his family (wife and 3 mistresses). The evacuation resulted in the destruction of two SEAL teams (3 KIA, 5 WIA, none expected to return to theatre). Actually to be honest it was the overly aggressive nature of the teams as they tried to counter-attack the assassination team sent after Kao. The local ARVN commander Sergeant Lon Than and his HQ team were all killed by ARCN infiltrators. Lon Than's CO Lieutenant Gi has not been seen in weeks. While we managed to hold the base and the bridge over Ben Tre the total breakdown in morale and command around here is becoming epidemic. Neither of our APC crews had full loads of ammo aboard a fact that cost the lives of more than a few good men. I would like to recommend the crews of PBR Hard Times and Lady Luck for posthumous awards, details to follow. You may be receiving reports of US MPs forcing ARVN units to advance over the Ben Tre bridge at gunpoint. This is untrue. The MPs were pinned by enemy fire earlier in the fight and the ARVN squads managed to get to the bridge and begin crossing first sadly the ARVN squads managed to get caught in a crossfire with main force VC on the east side of the bridge and ARVN infiltrators (using M-16s) on the SW side). The ARVN squads took severe casualties re-taking the bridge.

Thank God my tour is nearly up! I'll be back in civilization in 3 weeks.

Godspeed an end to this waste of good men,
Lt Colonel Watson

[scJazz]

Superb scenario WB I loved the tension of being hit from everywhere all at once. The river ran red with blood from the kill pocket I created with arty, air, riverboats, and the 1 infantry MG squad that managed to get into position.

[WBWilder]

Nice, Jazz. Very good AAR in a military sitrep mode. I liked it. I really did.

Its a wild melee and you jumped right into it. Navy Cross for some of those PBR crews.

Damned Seals, too gung-ho for their own good!

My thanks, buddy, for a job well done.

A marginal is something to be proud of.

WB

[scJazz]

Hey WB given any thought to doing some battalion or regiment sized scenarios? I've noticed a tendency for you to create company sized engagements heavy on the infantry. I certainly do enjoy those fights but you seem to do such a good job that I wonder what you could do with a larger setting.

[WBWilder]

Occasionally I do, Jazz. I'm much more into the smaller 1-2 hour play scenarios. Most gamers want that.

But I'm quite up to a battalion sized engagement. In fact look for one this month..Vietnam style.

Wild Bill