A card game based on a tactical battle in the Vietnam War. One player is responsible for defending a U.S. firebase, the other controls the attacking VC/NVA units. Each player uses a custom deck which is made up of cards representing combat units, fortifications, supply, tactics and morale. Each turn the players build hands of cards. The player with the...
January 31, 1968, Vietnam: The Tet Offensive You have just turned out the lights and are preparing to sleep when the alarm sirens start wailing. A staff-sergeant runs into your tent to announce that the Việt Cộng are attacking the perimeter! With all the other high-ranking officers you run to the Tactical Operations Center. From there you have to organize...
Firebirds: FAC is a tactical-level, narrative-style solitaire wargame using a tables-based game engine. As the pilot of a US Army L-19 Bird Dog Forward Air Control (FAC) plane, your ultimate goal is to survive a 1-year Vietnam tour of duty during the year 1968, while at the same time trying spot and mark hidden enemy Viet Cong units in FAC zones, then...
Firebirds: Gunship is a tactical-level, narrative-style solitaire/2-player co-op wargame using a tables-based game engine. As the pilot of either a US Army OH-6A Cayuse scout helicopter or AH-1G Cobra gunship helicopter, your ultimate goal is to survive a 1-year Vietnam tour of duty during the year 1969, while at the same time trying to destroy as many...
Firebirds: Huey is a tactical-level, narrative-style solitaire print and play wargame using a tables-based game engine. As the pilot of either a US Army UH-1H Huey Medevac helicopter, a US Army UH-1H air cavalry troop transport helicopter, or an L-19 Bird Dog pilot, your ultimate goal is to survive a 1-year Vietnam tour of duty during the year 1968, while...
Firepower is a detailed look at the organization, weapons and equipment, and tactics of many of the world's nations since 1965. Firepower gives players the opportunity to command squad units in recent or current wars. The destructive capabilities are massive, and the problems of command and control in devising effective tactics are a real challenge for any...
First Battle is Real War Game Simulation created by the US Army, Fort Leavenworth, Kansas, USA. this version is 75 pages in total; 53 pages of Rules; 13 pages of Tally Sheets; etc. The military units are meant to represented by user created, folded tent cards, with a military symbol on one side. In the "Open-Mode" configuration of this simulation each Team...
This game covers the 1950-1952 war in Indochina between the Vietminh and the French. Rules cover the de Lattre Line, Militia, and airborne operations. Game includes a single map and 154 single-sided counters. Though the Vietminh forces were not strong enough to face the French Army in open combat, they could, by limited actions and infiltration, frustrate...
A solitaire game of the 1st Air Cavalry's campaign in the Ia Drang Valley in October 1965. The NVA forces had been building up all year for the first major strike intended to cut South Vietnam in half, and on October 19th the plan went into effect. The player controls the American forces and the game system controls the NVA. Scale: the game map covers 400...
FiveCore Brigade Commander: Brigade Level Warfare in the 20th Century. By Ivan Sorensen. While the rules are not written for any particular scale of miniatures, they will work very well with 3mm, 6mm and 10mm figures, where each stand can look like a unit in its own right. Playing in 15mm is certainly possible, but tank models will take up a...
Free with Wargames Illustrated 282 (april 2011) Tropic Lightning is a 40-page book covering Tropic Lightning: Armoured and Airborne Combat in Vietnam 1965-1971. Adding tanks, armoured cavalry and mechanised infantry for the Americans and some more heavy weapons and RPG-7 rocket launchers for the Vietnamese and two new missions. Inside You Will Find: Rules...