VIETNAM: Rumor of War -- Wargame

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In 1965, the United States decided to intervene in the ongoing conflict in Vietnam. From the battlefield to the home front, the United States faced one of the greatest challenges in its history. Blending the Operational Scale System as seen in Korea: Fire and Ice with two older games (Road to the Rhine and A Victory Denied), OSS: Vietnam will show the conflict in a playable yet historical manner.

Players have the ability to move all their units once. However, they may choose to move those units in any of several impulses, if they can afford the supply cost to do so. The opposing player will have to maintain adequate reserves to counter this variable impulse movement.

The Operational Scale System (OSS) is meant to be a fast, accessible way of playing, and finishing, larger games. Finally playing a large monster game will no longer require hundreds of hours - now, you can easily complete a game of this size in a weekend. Players will activate HQs, fight off insurgents, bomb and disrupt the infrastructure of their opponents with the unique means available to each side. Whether by bombing raids or insurgents, how your side maintains the ability to wage war will be the key to victory. All the while, players must watch how their actions influence events far from the battlefield.

There are scenarios to allow various campaigns that defined this war as well as a campaign game.

Product Information:
* Complexity: 6 out of 10
* Solitaire Suitability: 8 out of 10
* Time Scale: 1 season per turn
* Map Scale: 8 miles per hex
* Unit Scale: Divisional/Regimental (with Viet Cong Battalions)
* Players: 1-2
* Playing Time: 2 - 35 hours

Components:
* Three maps at 22x34-inches (overall map footprint is 66x40 inches)
* Three Countersheets of 9/16-inch counters
* Five Player Aid Cards, Displays and Charts
* One rulebook
* One scenario book
* Two 6-sided and two 10-sided dice