(Historical Miniatures)
It was "lucky" Ptomas's night last night. Not only did he win Tikal, but also took the point (a short point) in the Vietnam Crossfire we did.
Part 1
"Lucky" Lt. Graves found himself on point AGAIN as his platoon rested by a stone footbridge over the rain swollen creek. As soon as Capt "Frag" saw all of Easy company was bunched up by the creek bank, he ordered point to "move out!" The trigger happy GIs let Charlie know they were coming by shooting anything that moved (along with most things that didn't move). The M-16 shots drowned out a lone sniper shot that went high and missed Lt. Mike. Lt. "Lucky" saw the palm log barricade over the footbridge and ordered his men into muddy creek water with the frogs. It was only two steps latter that the booby trap mine exploded in the water, showering the platoon with mud, fish and frogs. A report of all O.K. came back and the rest of the platoon went over to try the bridge instead. Once slowly, safely, across the bridge the first squad moved into a bombed out building in the village, secured it and signaled Capt. "Frag" all clear up to this point. Lt. Mike quickly move across up stream and into what was the snipers location, but the only signs were a few spent AK-47 shells.
Finally, Lt. Allen started to crossed down stream from Lt. Lucky. He came under light machine gun fire, in mid crossing and had to call in for heavy artillery. Once again the American fire power had chased off Charlie, although the troops were not to happy with the accuracy of the heavy guns R.E.M.F.s. Now the GIs were really jumpy and not taking any chances with the village. Lt. Lucky started a sweep that had cleared half of the village before the last VC militia caught him in the open of the village square. Here the squad was pinned and forced to call for 82mm mortar fire right on top of themselves to clear the Viet Cong ambush out of the village.
Over all the VC didn't coordinate their firepower well, and the recon by fire payed off by exposing a sniper waiting at the river bank. The final body count was Charlie 9, GI Joe 0.
Part 2: Tikal (board game)
In Tikal, Ptomas' strategy was to shadow Mike, claim he didnt know what he was doing and drink beer. Allen and I were locked into a battle for control of three temples and slowly lost sight of the final victory. Meanwhile, Ptomas was the treasure king with a well placed camp early in the game, although some thought it was it was placed too soon but...he did win by a good margin.
-- Joel Sams