Tropic LighTning - Flames of War

Turns 1 and 2:Here Comes the Cavalry!HQB-411VietnameseOBJECTIVE62 H2LZ OBJECTIVE14 53Turn 111Massed fire from tanksfiring beehive, ACAVmachine-guns, mortars,and helicopters breaks theambushing company.PAVN player places2five of their boobytraps under the leadingUS vehicles. When theymove, they set them off,destroying the dismountedMG team and causing anACAV to bail out.Divisional Anti-air3Platoon arrives fromGuerilla Reserve with itsZPU-1 14.5mm antiaircraftguns and digs incovering the landing zone.Key EventsTurn 245Fire from the onlyACAV in range, thetanks and the mortars allmiss the anti-aircraft guns.Huey Cobras kill twoanti-aircraft guns withchin-mounted minigunsand the 20mm gatling. It’sa good thing for the gunsthat they dug in!Anti-air Platoon with6Type 54 12.7mm AAmachine-guns appearsfrom Guerilla Reserveand completes the trap,shooting down the Cobraarmed with the gatling gun.Mark wishes he’d fired hisrockets last turn!Victory Points1 1Body CountVietnamese:3x B-41 teams4x AK-47 teams2x Type 52 75mm2x ZPU-1 14.5mmUS:1x MG team1x AH-1G Cobra *Units DestroyedVietnamese:Infantry Companywith B-41 **Gains enemy 1 VP2BeehiveFive tanks, including the cavalry’s three M551 Sheridan light tanks, firingbeehive ammunition, half-a-dozen ACAV with three machine-guns each, and twohelicopters shredded the Vietnamese infantry company.A vital round for tanks in Vietnamwas the short-ranged, thoughdevastating, ‘beehive’ canister round,named for the sound of more than athousand pellets whizzing past.A tank with beehive ammunition canfire with ROF 5 up to 8''/20cm range.If it moves it adds +1 to the score tohit rather than reducing its ROF.32BattleReport.indd 9 11/2/11 13:53:27