OP: Phidippides

This game is set in the year 1969. US troops are about to re-open a mined road to firebase “Elinore”. The enemy in this sector has not been so active for combat yet, but this time the are setting up an ambush.

US troops prior to the mission outside the entrence to the small Army compound.

A squad sweep the road for mines while another one cover them.

Troops take cover after coming under sniper fire.

The single greatest danger to armored vihicles were mines which could either stop them, or totally destroy them. On this operation several mines was detected.

Bravo squad went into an ambush and took heavy casualties. Alfa squad in turn could take one NVA sgt. and interrogate him. After that they used him as a decoy in the front of the advancing party.

By late afternoon while hading back for the base, US troops got into a last firefight.