Vitenam Tourney Action Report

[The Rattler]

Rattler(u.s) v Tide (nva)
The APC's heading north along the highway were ambushed by NVA infantry wielding rpg's and the losses were extreme. Wrecks of vehicles littered the highway delaying the whole process while a desperate drop of infantry pushed the NVA back into the jungle. I shouted over the radio to Colonel Grillo to get those APC's moving to the bridgehead further north as soon as possible.Col Grillo in a huey surveying the situation and reporting back to me as events unfolded was cut short in his reply. A hail of machine gun fire from one of those nasty AA batteries hidden in a hollow sent the huey with Col Grillo spiraling out of control. The machine last seen out of control crash landing in a valley. No word from Col Grillo since. Remaining Forces made a dash for the bridgehead and took the nearby objective but losses had mounted in the firefight with many casualties sustained.
En route to the supposed artillery centre of the NVA more fire from the ground caused some of our air cavalry units to retreat with damage but the rest of us managed to drop nearby the jungle outskirts for an assault into unknown.Cobras launched an attack disturbing many platoons of NVA. Further to the east we had infantry in place for a go at the objective on top of a hill and with gunship support hoped to resolve that soon.
Currently due to losses inflicted by the NVA only achieving more objectives will appease high command of the losses sustained by us so far.The NVA dragon was a formidable foe. Currently held locations were still being counter attacked by small groups of NVA infantry but the U.S gunners had to hold with what they had.No further reinforcements could make it in time for this engagement.I called up another skyraider run for the bridgehead to clear a path. Time was running out for the U.S and so were the supplies of man, machine and ammunition.