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ORIGINAL: Ranger33 Probably not what you are wanting exactly, but have you ever seen Fire in the Lake from GMT Games? It's a board game in their COIN series that depicts the war in Vietnam. It's really quite excellent, though the combat is fairly abstract. You can play as the US, the VC, the NVA, or the ARVN. It can be played solo against AI bots or with other people of course. Probably the overall best Vietnam game of any type in recent years. BGG Page For the record, the COIN series is totally amazing. PC wargames could learn a thing or two from these games when it comes to the question of how a "wargame" should depict the rest of the war outside of the combat itself. Yeah! I have A Distant Plain. I haven't played it yet, but I'm very familiar with the series. I agree game developers could learn a few things from the paper wargames in terms of overall game mechanics. As an aside, one game that could really make a great port into computer is the Great Campaigns of the American Civil War series.
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Jay USMC '98-'06 0311-4341 "Amateurs study tactics, professionals study logistics." - Gen. Omar Bradley "A good plan violently executed now is better than a perfect plan executed next week. " - Gen. George S. Patton
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