Vietnam game

Last week, my son and I decided it was about time we had a game before I took him back to university. So we dusted off the Vietnam stuff and gave our rules a playtest. The scenario included a couple of US squads in two M113 vehicles with an additional M113 as Platoon TAC HQ.

The target was an old French bunker which the US intel believed was being used by Charlie, so the US had to destroy this bunker.

They began approaching up the track to a junction alongside some paddy fields and debussed from the vehicles, which went into over watch whilst the troops deployed. There was a small hooch adjacent to a river which, it transpired, was a VC entry point and as the troops were clambering out of their transports Charlie opened up on the Americans, narrowly missing the transport with an RPG and causing a couple of minor injuries to the US troops.

Eventually, the US advanced and destroyed the hooch along with Charlie and advanced towards the old bunker. It soon became clear that the VC were using the bunker as firing came from the building and the US squad advancing along the paddy fields came under fire from a previously unsighted ambush. This latter was quickly dealt with by the M113 crews firing their .50 cals.

Meanwhile, the second US squad was approaching the bunker and, with a few well aimed grenades from their squad grenade launcher and following up with some timed charges, managed to destroy the bunker denying this strongpoint to the VC.