Your Next Move: On Patrol

[Mark Drake]

SITREP: Turn 6 start, VC have Initiative. A VC squad is in hex 1G1 along with the Objective C marker.

Free World forces deployed as follows:
Hex 1G5--LRRP 2-4-4 hs carrying Claymore
Hex 1F5--LRRP 3-5-5 squad with 2-10 LMG , and a Montagnard scout with Pathfinder skill (use ARVN Hero for the scout.)

What does the VC squad do?
How do the Free World forces uncover the Objective marker?

 

[Barthheart]

If I'm the VC I do nothing and wait for the FWF to make a move. Don't expose if you don't have to.

As the FWF, I'd send the 1/2 squad right up to the VC hex. Two things happen.
1. They either get shot at by the VC in which case the full squad et al. will move to melee.
OR
2. The VC does nothing, and the full squad et al blast away at the VC because they are now auto spotted.

 

[Alfred M. Bisasky]

Very nice job, guys. Just what I was looking for. Sorry that I flubbed the first shot at YOUR NEXT MOVE... Somehow, it got mixed in with VASSAL snow mapboard. Probably my error.

Al

 

[Mark Drake]

Alfred, don't worry about it...learning curve. Thanks for inspiring me to do it for my game.