Long Range Gaming Group

 

On the outskirts of Hue the 810^th NVA were ordered to delay the US advance by either successfully playing two CoC dice or reducing American morale to zero.

The Marines were tasked with moving two squads off the NVA board edge or breaking the NVA morale.

The game began with the usual patrol phase.  Aiming for deployment points on the edge of Hue and in the jungle on both flanks the NVA moved their patrol markers forward cautiously, allowing the Americans access to the majority of the board.

 

The Americans opened hostilities by bringing their supporting armour on the road and deploying an infantry squad into firing positions by the service station.  The NVA chose not to respond and looked forward to taking possession of the comfortable US boots approaching them. 

CoC points were slow to come for the NVA.

 

 With their confidence growing the Americans committed their remaining squads to covering positions on both flanks. Their armour support crawled up the road towards Hue

 

 With no response from the NVA the Americans pushed forward on their right flank aiming to eliminate the NVA left wing deployment point.

 Seeing the US making good progress and closing down  potential NVA firing arcs, the Vietnamese freedom fighters responded by ambushing the advancing Americans from the cover of the building on their extreme left flank.

 

Effective NVA fire brought the American advance to a halt but exposed the NVA heroes to the combined firepower of the whole US force.  The NVA were annihilated!  NVA morale was badly hit.  How could anything stand against such awesome firepower? 

To add insult to injury, as the NVA approached their first CoC dice the Americans played their ace.  By expending their own CoC dice they reduced the NVA CoC points total by three.  Time was not with the NVA.

To forestall an American advance on the NVA right a second squad was now deployed in overwatch positions in the jungle. 

The NVA now made the critical decision to reinforce their positions on the left by deploying two further squads and a heavy machine gun into the buildings on the edge of the city.

 

The NVA continued to pour fire into the leading American squad, causing leader casualties and building up the level of shock on the squad.  Return fire from the supporting American infantry and armour was lacklustre.

The NVA then delivered the coup de grace by launching a human wave attack against the beleaguered US squad.

Seeing the danger to their right wing the Americans pushed forward from their positions around the service station.

Too late!  The ferocity of the NVA assault swept away the remains of the leading US squad.  US morale plummeted.  Despite taking fire from the entrenched NVA  the Marines pressed on with their countercharge. 

The Americans also advanced through the jungle terrain on the opposite flank, only to stall in the face of NVA fire.  US morale continued to fall.

 

 

The final act of the battle was now played out as the advancing NVA and the countercharging Marines met in mortal combat.

Despite the Marines destroying their opponents the savagery of hand to hand combat led to an orgy of  mutual destruction.   Marine losses finally caused their morale to fall to 0 and the day went to the heroes of the NVA.