Brit Nick Shows His Mettle

      Today was an exciting day. I made a new friend, Nick Riggs of West London, England, who is an avid Crossfire fan, and together we managed to stagger our way through a search- and-destroy mission with Nick running two platoons against my Nationalist forces and he took some casualties but managed to hammer my Vietnamese, only let a couple of men and women get away and taking a number of prisoners, capturing weapons, and got a fistful of documents, a good haul.

     It was not even a near run thing. Once Nick figured out how to prep the zone with fire, suppress the enemy and then go in with close combat and engage the enemy, he had the tactics of small unit combat figured out and rolled through my units. The fact that my blinds, which is a way of generating random reinforcements, were coming up zeroes didn't help me. That's not an excuse in any way and Nick's play was excellent. There was just little I could do.We have agreed that in future engagement, when we have accomplished the learning curve of Crossfire and Incoming to have the VC force be pre-generated and then placed in hidden locations on the map, making it a little more realistic for the US player and making it a little better for the Nationalist player. That should give me a better chance against Nick. But if Nick keeps playing like he did today, we'll see whether it makes a difference or not!

     I have created new counters for the following units to enhance the scenarios and make them more true to life:

• AH-1 Cobra (a modified modern AH-1W but all that I could find)
• F105 Thunderchief
• M-113 Standard (I already have ACAV versions)
• UH-34 Choctaw (You Marines know it as the SeaHorse (From Full Metal Jacket)
• US 105 mm Gun with crew Emplacement (Gotta have those Red Legs)
• Vietnamese Civilians 5 Versions (Watch where you shoot! Not everywhere is free fire.)
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  Wrapped Vietnamese VC Counters in RED to distinguish them on the field.
• Water Buffalo (What would a battlefield be without a water boo?)

     Please take time to comment and let me know if there is anything that we need to create and I will try and get it done. I will be making more maps and will try to schedule games at 7:00pm to accommodate our friends in England. That will make the time 1:00 CDT Texas/Chicago time and run about 3 hours.

     Hope to see you all at the next game. I'll schedule an event shortly.