The Outpost*
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Date: September 7, 1948*                     
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Battle Location:  Khuol Mon, North Vietnam*
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Battle Type:  France defend vs. Viet Minh assault*
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Design by:  Tony Engelsen*
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Scenario description: The numerous posts along Routes Coloniales 3, 3bis and 4 in NE Tonkin near the chinese border always represented a vulnerable part of the French garrison forces in Indochina. For supplies they were completly dependent upon the few narrow and meandering roads that ran between the forrested hills and through the nearly endless jungles that made up most of the Tonkin region. These remote outposts were easy to cut off and the terrain made the roads an ambushers heaven.*
While the place names are real this scenario is fictional. It is however based upon several incidents were the Viet Minh launched full scale assault upon French outpost, in particular that of the attack on Phu Tong Hoa in july 1948 where 100 legionaires held out against several thousand Viet Minh attackers.*
Visibility is reduced due to an evening mist and light fog. The French will have to hold the outpost until the the relief force from Cao Bang arrives at a later point in the game.*
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Note: This scenario is meant to be played as the French, playing the Viet Minh will not represent much of an challenge.*
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