CSV Ian is NLF and larry is Allied

[larryfulkerson]

Okay, this is after the playback is done and I'm reviewing the combat results of HIS attacks and I see where he has bombarded my arty unit with his arty unit(s) and this is the condition of the Allied units in the hex right now after all the bombardments. I'm thinking that since the enemy didn't suffer any losses at all that he's got the range on my hex and I need something with a longer range to hit back. This calls for the big guns in the Phillippines. Those big boys with a range of 10 or so. Until they start showing up here in a couple of months I'll have to pull everybody back and let him have the north part of the country temporarily. I'll get it back I promise, just right now I need to get out of the way of the falling shells. I'll have to scan the existing arty units and bring the longest ranged ones up to the north using sea movement if possible to speed things along. I need to be able to shoot back if I'm going to hang onto the territory. Just hunkering down and taking the heat just gets people killed for no good reason. The NVA just THINK they own the north. I'll be back.

[larryfulkerson]

I'm listening to the music during the Vietnam period:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZIIqLNZoOV8

[larryfulkerson]

One of the infantry regiments suffered two bombardment attacks and lost a lot of people and equipment and all this just to hold territory. Time to pull out and concede he's got the better weapons for the time being.

[larryfulkerson]

Near Loc Ninh there's a mainforce NVA infantry regiment approaching from the trail toward Allied positions specfically the 1st Para Brigade of the ARVN Para Divison and it's not in the best of shape for any combat at all but it's what's handy for plugging an important gap in the lines just now. I'll see if I can't find another unit in better shape to take their place. I notice that it doesn't have a secondary icon of arty to be able to shot it's mortars like arty. I'd be curious to see what difference it would make if any. The monsoon season has ended now so I believe this unit and a lot of CS will enable the single brigade to hold it's position. No need to back up just yet. Besides, there's an arty unit on an adjacent hex to the south. It will be fine for now.

[larryfulkerson]

Combing through the OOB for long-ranged arty I came upon this unit and moved it up to the front but I'm thinking the NVA stuff has a longer range than 4 hexes so this arty piece isn't going to do the trick for the Allies either. We really need the longer guns in the Phillippines.

[devoncop]

ORIGINAL: larryfulkerson

I'm listening to the music during the Vietnam period:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZIIqLNZoOV8

Damn fine music there Larry.

One of the things that made "Good Morning Vietnam" watchable as a movie was the soundtrack....

[larryfulkerson]

Just moving my Marine Recon force I found a VC unit and called in another Allied unit, I don't remember which, and I'm going to need some more troops yet to surround it and kill it.

[larryfulkerson]

One good thing about having cleared the terrain, the turn the VC units spawn they stand out in the terrain and you can find them a lot easier. There's two separate VC units east of Saigon and I need to do something about them because I've got a lot of nearby installations that I don't want damaged and I've got airfields that I don't want runover by the VC.

[larryfulkerson]

And I found another VC unit in the Delta. I'm putting airstrikes on all the bad boys I'm finding.

[larryfulkerson]

I was moving my brown-water boat and found yet another VC unit. I'll have to see if I can't get some people down there to surround him.

[larryfulkerson]

I was using an HQ unit to check out some potential enemy hexes and found yet another VC unit. I'm hoping my air power can do something about all these enemy units. I know I shouldn't use an HQ to do searches but it was handy and I wasn't counting on actually finding anything.

[larryfulkerson]

I was searching near Qui Nhon and found yet another VC unit. This one is closer to the 1st Cav units but they are all on another case. I'm not sure who I can dispatch for this guy. Maybe nobody.

[larryfulkerson]

Uh....hey you guys: I'm starting to get backed up in my moves and I've been saving my work as I go and trying to move the quickest moves first then the next quickest, then the longer moves in that order and it has resulted in everybody at once all the time. So I'm just saying that your moves might get slower on the return pretty quickly now. Your patience is appreciated.

[devoncop]

Turn 9

Well the US/ARVN were busy boys last turn and hit multiple VC battalions by air and land but the VC put up a surprisingly good fight. A couple of battalions were destroyed in central provinces but air losses were quite high.

In total 48 planes (almost half AD-A1 Skyraiders) and 15 helicopters were destroyed (9 Cobras) and I noticed a VP point loss for US/ARVN losses in the turn report.

Total net VP's tick back up 1 to +4 to the Colonialists however as ground was regained.

During my turn some tentative recon by the NVA 308th Division south of the DMZ confirmed than many of the US and ARVN occupiers had pulled back from the DMZ in Quang Tri province leaving behind only Regional Defence Forces holding Khe Sanh airbase. Both Khe Sanh and Con Thien are overrun and the ARVN Regional Defence battalion is wiped during the NVA advance.

The 9th NVA Division continues to gain territory east of the Cambodian border in the south and aside from a few hopefully safe VC battalions in remote locations and one VC battalion in reorganisation a number of VC units are disbanded to preserve for a greater impact in forthcoming weeks.

The Americans continue to hit the Hanoi industrial complex and another AA unit is destroyed.

[larryfulkerson]

Wow!! The instant I vacated the premises Ian bolted in there with all kinds of NVA stuff and he overran the outpost that was at Khe Sanh and Con Thien and he's across the river Han and all that wicked arty is following the entire thing. So I'm going to pull back some more yet. See if I can entice him into my trap.

[larryfulkerson]

My INT planes keep hitting the Hanoi area without my permission and I'm guessing the only way to make them stop doing that is to trim the range of ALL the planes to exclude that patch of sky, and there's quite a few planes to change, 79 in total.

[larryfulkerson]

One of the combats was a bombardment by his arty on one of my RUFPUF's and I got a view of what he's got in the way of tubes and I'm seeing some impressive hardware and the trucks to move all that stuff. But curiously, no AA assets. That's a target just begging to be hit.

[larryfulkerson]

I thought it might be a good idea to survey the aircraft before I did anything else that might require their services and I've come upon a Cobra unit parked near Saigon and I see I've been wasting it's talents since it's an excellent anti-tank platform so I need to get this thing in range of the NVA mechanized stuff this turn if possible.

[larryfulkerson]

I flew that Cobra unit up to Phu Bai and set it up for an attack on the NVA stack that includes the arty tubes. The rest of the aircraft taking part in the attack I will assign later.

[larryfulkerson]

I'm checking out the planes and I've come to an organization that I used to work for. I've loaded bombs, rockets, napalm, flares, bullets, etc. on these kind of aircraft. They took some T-37's from a training base near Lubbock, TX and put bigger engines in them and a gattling gun in the nose and all kinds of secret avionics and called it an A-37. They were originally to be given to the ARVN air force and a lot were, but there were several American squadrons as well, and this is one of them. It was based at Bien Hoa during the war, at least when I was there: '70-'71.

According to the inventory I'm not due any more of these until about T25 so I'm going to fly it to Thailand and park it there for a while. I'll park it at Ubon.