Team DesertEdge returns victorious, after changing history in the Hamburger Hill scenario game hosted by the Rangerball Regiment. Rangerball is an extreme scenario style based on military strategy and extreme fields. This scenario pushed DesertEdge to their limits by pitting them against some of Utah's best scenario players in a rolling battle to defend our hill.

DesertEdge players were assigned the part of being the North Vietnamese, attempting to defend a single position against superior numbers. From the beginning DE and rangerball locals worked together to keep the American advance as tripped up as possible. Features smart work by snipers, and sneaking flanking tactics the morning was spent keeping and impressive offensive by groups such as Bad Karma locked out of reach of the infamous hill. But word did come in that part of the Rangerball team had swept in an extreme flank (remember, rangerball favors the athletic) and was assaulting the hill. The assault was stopped, the Americans were feeling the pain of advancing, but impressive numbers brought the game increasingly close to the hill.

At noon everybody recieved a brief respite for lunch, and a time to reload. But such happy times were not to last, as the game was back on, this time things were tight, as the americans were started close to the hill, ready to assault. With the heavy gunners helping direct on the hill, the rest of DesertEdge lead sneak attacks on the bottom of the beautiful red rock formation that was Hamburger Hill, forming a veritable winshield wiper. After several passes of death and destruction, DE was pulled to the hilltop for a final seriesof assaults. From our vantage we could see the impressive numbers arrayed against us. What followed was a series of amazing coordinated assaults that were fended off by amazing feats from the defenders. DE members were seen jumping from boulders to attack squads below. Running assaults on flanks to destory fixed positions, and well placed grenades in squads.

Through the afternoon, only a single american reached the summit of the hill, via a back route, only to be gunned down within seconds by a DE charge from the opposite slope. His seeming victory stolen in mid-cheer.

At the end of the day, DE had helped changed history. Hamburger Hill remained in NVA hands. THe battle was hard fought, and the combatants were tired. One-hundred degree temperatures, miles of sand and rock, all add up to tiredness when operating a running battle for so long. But it is all worth the fun that can only be had in such an alternative play style. DesertEdge would like to thank the developers of Rangerball, and we will most surely be there for more events in the future.

Story by Jason Hall aka. Jayce