Holy cr@p what a great game! This is the best sniper for VC, Nick B, and all I can say is wow! I'm still sore from all the hiking I did trying to get good spots, and boy did I get enough kills. Probably fifty or more, sniping with semi, only. But, only one stands out -the officer kill that got me the trophy.
I was sitting about twenty feet away from Firebase Rhino, after I had just reported that a helo was coming with the Ranger officer. I had my scope on him, waiting for him to come into range. I see him slide down a hill, stop, and thats when I knew the time was right. I pulled the trigger, watched the .25 bb rise and fall, and hear the pop of the bb hitting his goggles. One shot, one kill, extreme range. Later, I learned that the sniper from the Mobile Guerilla Force had the officer in his sights too, and was just about to take him down when he saw my bb hit him.
All in all, a great game. The last half hour, with the VC just charging the US Forces in waves was the best. I got at least five kills in that charge, and that's after sneaking around the back of the US Forces. Thanks for the best experience I've ever had playing Airsoft.
-Nick
I would've posted sooner, but its taken me this long to recover. My shrink said something about post traumatic stress... Thought I might need some professional help since I spent the next two days after in the corner of a dark room naked, in the fetal position, and crying. They say as long as I stay on my meds I'll probably be "ok".
Anyway, that was one of the best airsoft experiences ever and I've been to a few real good ones. The intensity was so real, yet off the field we all gelled together and partied and had a good time. Kudos to all that were there. Major thumbs up to Dave and staff, what you do is nothing less than miraculous, and you are very much appreciated.
The soldiers who fought for the VC platoons were all superb, you were able to stick to the plans despite the fog of war and battlefield surprises. It was very difficult deciding on MVP awards because you all did so well. Wish I could have given out three awards for each category.
One of the greatest moments that stand out in my mind right now is Leopard Squad coming in with the enemy commander in the last few minutes of the game. One of the hardest things to do in making tactical decisions is determining how many troops to commit to a task and which ones to use... Our plan there was to put all our eggs in one basket, protected by the bulk of our troops and designate one squad as a grab/snatch operation. That task fell on leopard squad. I just felt confident that they could do it and they didnt fail -good job guys.
...like I said, there was alot and you all did very well. Make sure you come back next year and bring a few friends. -Mike
I had played on the NAM field a few times before and I thought there was no way a person could be surrendered except from a frontal assault or due to close fighting for a bunker. I found out the first day how wrong I was!Early on Saturday, during the first mission, I was at the Northern Outpost after being hit. I was alone and looked around but the fighting was going on down the hill so I proceeded to reload. I had just looked around and started to reload another mag when I heard a whisper, “Hey, you dead?” Startled, I looked up and two feet from me with an AK in my face, was one of the VC platoon sergeants. I said “I’m dead but if I wasn’t I would be now!” With that he proceeded to raise the VC flag and I was expelled from the base...
I went to the respawn and upon reentering the field I took about 10 steps and noticed an AK pointing at me from behind a tree. It must have looked funny as I tried to react. I jumped back and did a jig while I fumbled to bring my weapon
up, but at that point realizing he had me dead to rights but he hadn’t shot me, I raised my hands a walked off the field disgusted. The VC, laughing, walked off towards the rest of my squad. Between the VC platoon leader and this VC, they proceeded to surrender a few more of our guys and within a few minutes the victims came straggling back to the respawn point.
At this time we started to hear reports that the VC had tunnels! Tunnels! That was a great twist. It made the whole event much more exciting. The American forces were learning the hard way. We now had to watch our backs. Later Saturday, I was at the American Command base with Marine Sergeant of the 2nd Squad and Gill, AKA “leftjab”. We were now going to take the fight to the VC, or so we thought.
We started out from the base. There was no one around but us. We had gotten about 40 feet from the base when I realized I left a bag of ammo on the base wall. I yelled to Sarge that I was going back to get my ammo, only 40 feet away. As I ran back I came around a tree and there to my shock was a VC with an M 14 in my face! He mouthed the words “Surrender, shut the #@$% up!” He knew he had a few more kills to get. Laughing to myself I didn’t make a peep (He was serious, he would have lit me up from 5 feet away if I’d called “out”.) He proceeded to Kill Sarge and surrender Gill.
The next and last surrender I saw was awesome. It was during the siege of Khe Sahn. With about 5 minutes to go I was respawning (again) and talking with the Bartender at Mama-san's. He was still in the fight. We were at the creek and there was sparse cover behind us. As I spoke to him I looked down for a split second and when I looked up there was a VC with a pistol in my face asking if I was respawning. Damn Not again! Where in the heck did this guy come from??? He
had surrendered the Bartender also. I said yes I was respawning and he started toward the Americans from behind. At that exact time the LT was rallying the American forces and they began to advance toward the fort some running and some on line laying down fire (as everyone knows the volume of fire at Khe Sahn was incredible). I watched helplessly as the VC with the pistol ran behind the advancing Americans and started to surrender them from behind. It was total chaos and the Americans seemed to think he was on our side till they took a good look at the guy tapping them on the shoulder. He must have surrendered 10 to 12 Americans, not including the bartender. The VC was obscured by the bushes and next thing I saw he was out.
Now the real kicker to this is that ALL of these VC that I have mentioned in this account were the guys from Washington!!! Good job [Mobile Guerilla Force] and I’d like some stealth training from you guys!
-Harold
2nd squad U.S. Marines