Vietnam Reenactment

[Col. Hannibal Smith]

My proposal:
Map: La Drang Valley (as seeing as how it was the first official battle of Vietnam)
Script: It is 1964. The US Army 7th Calvary, as made famous by General George Armstrong Custer at Little Big Horn, has been ordered to patrol the La Drang Valley. They are to land in the clearing (if you are on the hill base closest to the US Main facing the US Main, it's to your right) by Huey Slick. They are to expect minimal Vietnamese resistance, but find out they are severely outnumbered...

The US Army is to send two platoons into the fray which get pinned down at the riverbed (the one running through the map) by Vietnamese soldiers. The platoons consist of riflemen (m16 and regular m14) and gunners (m60). The Vietcong keep them pinned there for a bit. Then the Vietcong charge the Americans but get mowed down. The Vietcong fall back to cover and continue to keep them pinned. One Huey gunship pilot comes in to assist them and pull out one soldier at a time. The US calls in napalm runs on the hills and area surrounding the clearing. A retreat is ordered and a Huey slick picks up a FEW troops at a time. [ceremony] After the battle, seven people on the US side (with regular M14s) come to the clearing with all present from both sides (NOT A SHOT IS TO BE FIRED! The seven people when given the order all aim their rifles to the sky and fire a shot. Repeat 2 more times for a total 21 guns.

 

[RyanCooper]

That would be more for a movie than an event People at the event have problems listening...

 

[GunRunner]

Map: La Drang Valley

It's Ia Drang, not La Drang.

 

[MaximumD2]

Gun runner and his correction skills

 

[Anonymous]

That would be more for a movie than an event People at the event have problems listening...

Agreed, i have been at events before and people just do not listen, you cann kick them, but that means less people, and still half the people wont listen to something extremely specific, not to mention youall have peope fighting over which weapon they can rightfully use. To get them to do

The US Army is to send two platoons into the fray which get pinned down at the riverbed (the one running through the map) by Vietnamese soldiers. The platoons consist of riflemen (m16 and regular m14) and gunners (m60). The Vietcong keep them pinned there for a bit. Then the Vietcong charge the Americans but get mowed down. The Vietcong fall back to cover and continue to keep them pinned. One Huey gunship pilot comes in to assist them and pull out one soldier at a time. The US calls in napalm runs on the hills and area surrounding the clearing. A retreat is ordered and a Huey slick picks up a FEW troops at a time. [ceremony] After the battle, seven people on the US side (with regular M14s) come to the clearing with all present from both sides (NOT A SHOT IS TO BE FIRED! The seven people when given the order all aim their rifles to the sky and fire a shot. Repeat 2 more times for a total 21 guns.

is downright impossible, there is no way to get the players to do this.

 

[Kn3wn]

It would be hard, People have really bad listening skills in video games XD

 

[ArcticWinter]

Impossible, not going to happen. People don't listen at all. There's always one who just can't keep their fingers of the trigger, or just can't withstand to blow up vehicles. You might be lucky to find ten players who actually are qualified to do this, but that's not enough at all.

Otherwise, it's a cool idea.

 

[acashmony]

May I add? Instead of platoons we have a 2 squads? Which is going to be 9 total. 2 heavy machine gunners, 5 men with m-16s and m-14, 2 snipers (a spotter and a sniper). I like the whole story line but in reality the us troops never lost a battle, they won most of every battle. So instead of retreating, why not put they got reinforcements? I will tell you about this later when I think of the bigger script for it.