The Vietnam War
2025
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Players
1-2
Weight
N/A
Playtime
900 min
Age
12+
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The Vietnam War is a 1 to 2 Player game, suitable for solitaire of US battles in The Vietnam War. The Vietnam War follows in the boot steps of other Combat books games by giving the player the right mix of just enough tactical flavor without overwhelming the player with data.
Vietnam, 1965. North Vietnam rapidly increase its infiltration of men and supplies to support the Viet Cong's growing influence over rural South Vietnam. After a series of post-WW2 communist aggressions, western democracies are afraid. In 1948, Stalin seals off West Berlin, leading to the Berlin air lift. In 1949, communists overrun China. In 1950 North Korea launches the Korean War, a bloody three-year war leading to hundreds of thousands of deaths.
Communists overrun French force at Dien Bien Phu in 1954, and the US becomes more involved. At this point, fearing the piece-by-piece elimination of the free world, most US citizens, as well as Congress, favor intervention.
The US initiates Operation Rolling Thunder, a bombing campaign over North Vietnam. Army and Marine troops begin ground operations, seeking to find and destroy enemy forces. US involvement in the Vietnam war escalates to a full boil.
—description from the publisher