Nam Diary is a "mini-sim" published in Panzerschreck Magazine #6 (Summer 2001) and later made available as a stand alone game. From the introduction: It is late afternoon in mid-April, 1968. On patrol near the DMZ, Pfc. Bomar Henry is about to get his first taste of a Vietnam firefight. Will he live to tell about it? 'Nam Diary is a short and very simple...
By using simple to understand mechanics, such as playing cards and 'dice shifting', it is possible to simulate any of the troops who did the fightin` and a-dyin` a long way away from home or amongst their own cities and villages. The rules attempt to embrace all the combatants who played a part in the war on both sides, from the Viet Cong guerrilla to the...
Grand Strategic treatment of the 1972 campaign with aircraft and armor, artillery, infantry and helicopter minis, two big beautiful maps at 10 miles/hex, event cards every turn, weekly turns, ZOC, terrain and supply effects, US airpower, airmobile and amphibious movement, a real mystery unit dynamic, and max replay-ability. 1975 campaign 275 scenario...
Nguyen Hue is a play-by-mail wargame for two players. A map is provided on which players indicate their positions by either writing on a plastic overlay or sticking in pins. On each of the twelve game turns, the Communist player sends in orders which are executed, with the results then sent to the Allied player, who then sends in his or her orders. Each...
“Heavily engaged by overwhelming numbers, 1st Battalion 503rd Infantry, proved the superiority of the American Paratrooper beyond any question or doubt.”—Excerpt from 173rd Brigade’s after-action report. The 173rd Composite Airborne Brigade was composed of units from the USA, Australia and New Zealand. Following the US intervention in April, the unit was...
No Trumpets, No Drums is a game of the war in Vietnam. Two players or teams representing the Communist states and guerrilla armies of South- east Asia and the pro-Western and neutral states and forces of that region and their American allies combat each other in a political and military duel for control over Indochina. (from the 2nd edition rulebook)...
Non Gratus Rodentum (also known as Tunnel Rats) is a solitaire dungeon crawl where you generate and explore Vietcong tunnel mazes during the Vietnam war, rolling dice on the tables provided and drawing an abstract representation of the tunnels to explore, fighting enemies and avoiding traps. The game, that comes as a pdf, can be played as a campaign in...
“I will never forget the night, that Tan Son Nhut was hit. “C Flight was on duty then, we knew that this was it. We hit the dirt and looked around with anxious waiting eyes, and said a prayer as mortars came raining from the skies” –Opening stanza of an anonymous veteran’s poem about the attack at Tan Son Nhut. When the Communist forces of North and South...
Description from the publisher: Objectives: Vietnam is a cooperative, competative card game for one to six people where players compete against the game to take objectives by battling the NVA forces. The cards Objectives: Vietnam runs with three decks of cards. The first deck is the Objectives deck. These cards are places and events that the players must...
In Obscure Battles Volume 6 – A Cruel Sea, the player takes the role of a Submarine commmander trying to locate and destroy enemy shipping on a patrol. This is a exclusively solitaire game: you don’t need any other player to play the game. Extremely fast playing and simple but detailed , fun game - just a A3 for your map board, the game is extremely easy...
Obcure Battles : Cold War is a Print and Play game from Obscure Battles publishing. It is a hex and counter game with various optional rules and conflict models. A novelty that sets this game apart is the inclusion of an optional Card Driven Mechanism that ensures that one game is never like the other. The Scenario pack 1 introduces 7 "case study" files:...
From the website: After the military failure of the North Vietnamese Tet offensive in January, the NVA conducted their first divisional attack in the Tay Ninh environs during a hot, monsoonal August. It was the last attempt to "spill American blood" in large quantities. Politically, the January attack was a success as the American media heavily reported...