Flames of war - Vietnam - Mission - Hot LZ

Forces 750 pts

US 7th cav Airmobile (Tour of duty)
Arimobile rifle platoon
Arimobile rifle platoon
1 Hog
1 Frog
4 UH-1 Slicks

Local Force VC (Brown water navy)
2 platoon strong local force company
2 platoon strong local force company
2 HMG bunker, 3 recoilless rifle, 1 AA mg
5 Resistance teams
5 Booby traps

 7th cav deploy one platoon by LZ objective. First turn goes to Vietnamese player. The local force start only with five local resistance teams.

The Local resistance teams keep the distance and lift the gone to ground from the enemies like a recce team, throughout the game.

The Local forces takes first turn and ambush a company of guerrilla reserves. They manage to kill a MG team but massed firepower from arriving gunships wipes the company next turn.

Vietnamese second turn gives a new ambushing company with attached HQ weapon and ambushing HMG nests. The company inflicts quite some hits on the Frog gunship but fail the re-roll on the fire power test to destroy it.

7th cav calls for the second platoon to arrive with their slicks. Return fire from the gunships kills the AA mg and a few Vietnamese infantry teams, pinning the company.

Vietnamese 3rd ambush also arrives in the close table quarter and with some fire manage to destroy (delay) a slick.

Combined return fire again wipe the company. The Frog gunship destroy one HMG bunker with its grenade launcher.

The fresh 7th cav platoon mobilize to take the objective, slightly distracted by ambushed booby traps. One team member dies from the hidden traps. Meanwhile the Frog destroys the second HMG bunker.

Vietnamese player removes the remains of the company on the table to ambush  two fresh ones into the battle.

They both arrive on the table quarter opposite to the Vietnamese objective. One resistance team manage to move away the Vietnamese objective 20 cm to delay the american approach.

A resistance team reveal itself as a suicidal citizen equipped with grenades. It hits the medic with a grenade but fails to kill him.

As the Americans approach the objective, the Vietnamese tries one last combined assault on the LZ-objecctive. The assault breaks after one round of close combat resulting in a contest of the LZ objective.

However the 7th cav seize the Vietnamese objective while holding the ground at LZ.

6-1 for Americans.

Comments
In this game the Vietnamese companies lacked the assault punch they needed. They would probably benefited from bigger companies, with quality of quantity. Resistance teams dis prove to be very interesting thought.

Our next game showed that destroying a gunship early on vastly decimate the killing power of the Americans.