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Very fun game by Slitherine -- the concepts are all easy to grasp but they make for tough tactical decisions.
You have two resources:
- Political Points: this is how you get more units; it goes up when you defeat the enemy and down when you take casualties
- Hearts & Minds Points: this is how you win; it goes up when talk to and protect Vietnamese villages and down when you leave them to VC intimidation
Your forces (mostly US Army) start on the eastern edge of a randomly generated map. NVA troops deploy from the western edge (Cambodia) and VC spawn along a series of hidden points across the whole map, the Ho Chi Minh Trail.
As H&M points go down, more VC spawn and the further east the NVA come. Yep, the worse you do the harder the game gets.
You only have a few unit types:
- Regular Infantry: boots on the ground, your bread and butter
- Green Berets: can see farther than regs, cannot interact with villages
- Howitzer: huge swath of indirect fire
- ARVN Infantry: trained by Green Berets, lower combat stat than regs, better at talking to villages
- M113 Engineer - clear jungle, build roads and bases, repair and refuel vehicles
- M113 APC - what you would expect
- M60 Patton - not sure, never built one
- Huey - your lifeblood; supply is critical in this game
- Chinook - faster and more expensive
- Cobra - fast attack helo with indirect fire
- Air Strikes (icon looks like a Phantom II)
