Another Defend, on a Custom Map of a Viet river and Village (I cannot recall its #).
Again the slow progress of the Viets left only the last 10 turns of a 33-turn scenario for combat. My French Paras were entrenched on the opposite side of a 4-7 hex wide river with only one bridge across with 4 Fast Patrol Boats (my own creation) in the river and supporting tanks, m16s, Amphib-Support and bunkers dug in with them. Two secondary defence lines to fall back to behind them (manned by snipers and reserves at start before I moved the snipers up) before the villages and Victory Hexes. The Viet side of the river was covered in barbed wire and mines and arty presighted on target hexes.
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Võ Nguyên Giáp, "Comrades! The time has finally come for the final offensive to topple the colonial oppressors. The French mercenary rapists, murderers and child-molesters. They cover in their fortifications like children frightened of the dark. You, Comrades of the distinguished Viet Bac Division, shall recieve the honour of being the vanguard of this assault. You shall sweep them out of their pillboxes and rush into the Delta; liberating our oppressed brothers and sisters, and handing back Hanoi to the rightful owners! FOR FREEDOM!"
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It was a massacre, the Human Waves got cut to pieces by arty while they approached and tank guns, maschine guns, snipers and presighted arty as they got to the barbed wire and mines. Only two scouts ever reached the water's edge and snipers picked them off. Most of the barbed wire remained till the end- and all the mines (I botched their placement a bit). The ground between the jungle and the river was a charnelhouse where dead bodies piled up only to be ripped to pieces by the hammer of modern warfare; artillery, medium and heavy mortars, light, medium and heavy maschineguns, autocannons and snipers. And when there was no target in sight cause of the smoke they merely fired blind behind the smoke, causing casualties to the rallying formations.
I think this is my greatest Decisive ever, usually my Decisives have the enemy with about 10% of my score. But this...
France Score -
5519, N. Vietnam -
262.
French losses:
-Men:
31
-Soft Vehicles: 1
-AFVs: 2
Viet Minh losses:
-Men 980
The Viets are incredibly tough. They do rally and keep coming on through the slaughter, but in this instance they did not stand a chance. What I personally need to improve a bit it my skill at laying mines and Barbed Wire, I never tried that before really.