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ORIGINAL: Missouri_Rebel

Thanks for the pics and story.

We had a neighborhood friend when I was a young boy named Lam Van Hi (sp). This is going from a young boys memory of about 8, in '77 or so, but as I recall his stepfather was a soldier in Vietnam and married Lams mom. Lam by this time spoke very good English. We became best friends instantly.

Lams stepfather was very strict. I mean very strict and corporal punishments were given out for the slightest screw up. One of his dad's rule was no one in the house when they weren't home. Living in a time where children stayed home at an early age, we spent the summers hanging out, often in his house when we weren't supposed to.

I remember this like it was yesterday. His s.father played some sort of huge war game that was always set up on table in the living room. One day while we were in his house my older brother was using his phone. Kurt had the phone and was walking to the next room with it, extending the cord at least 15 feet. Well Kurt being the clutz he was brushed the phone cord across this massive game and I remember seeing pieces fly. Lam instantly started crying and being the good friends that we were we left immediately. We didn't see lam for over a month except driving away to places with his folks. Poor kid.

I hadnt thought of that story in years. Sorry to hijack your thread and quite possibly bore you, but Maybe you could answer this for me;

It had to be around '76 or '77. In my head the game was a Vietnam wargame. Were there any Vietnam based games at that time that you know of? If so, do you recall what they were?

Thanks. Again, sorry for the hijack but that old game had me reminiscing.

Mo reb

I just remembered one of the reasons we went over there a lot. His stepfather had a stack of Oui magazines. We called them O-U-I never knowing it was French. Very good articles.

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ORIGINAL: dougo33

The game about Vietnam I remember around that era was from SPI called "Year of the Rat" about the 1972 offensive.

I also played many games of this D-Day game from AH. Thanks for the memories

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ORIGINAL: Missouri_Rebel

Thanks for the pics and story.

We had a neighborhood friend when I was a young boy named Lam Van Hi (sp). This is going from a young boys memory of about 8, in '77 or so, but as I recall his stepfather was a soldier in Vietnam and married Lams mom. Lam by this time spoke very good English. We became best friends instantly.

Lams stepfather was very strict. I mean very strict and corporal punishments were given out for the slightest screw up. One of his dad's rule was no one in the house when they weren't home. Living in a time where children stayed home at an early age, we spent the summers hanging out, often in his house when we weren't supposed to.

I remember this like it was yesterday. His s.father played some sort of huge war game that was always set up on table in the living room. One day while we were in his house my older brother was using his phone. Kurt had the phone and was walking to the next room with it, extending the cord at least 15 feet. Well Kurt being the clutz he was brushed the phone cord across this massive game and I remember seeing pieces fly. Lam instantly started crying and being the good friends that we were we left immediately. We didn't see lam for over a month except driving away to places with his folks. Poor kid.

I hadnt thought of that story in years. Sorry to hijack your thread and quite possibly bore you, but Maybe you could answer this for me;

It had to be around '76 or '77. In my head the game was a Vietnam wargame. Were there any Vietnam based games at that time that you know of? If so, do you recall what they were?

Thanks. Again, sorry for the hijack but that old game had me reminiscing.

Mo reb

I just remembered one of the reasons we went over there a lot. His stepfather had a stack of Oui magazines. We called them O-U-I never knowing it was French. Very good articles.

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ORIGINAL: sweeteye

Almost forgot to add.....Game did come with a rulebook and charts...Has a very different early edition combat chart.You lay the defenders card over the attackers card and it gives you the odds and correct combat chart to use..As for the colors...typical of early Avalon Hill games...Blue and pink...must not of had a good selection of ink for printing ...

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ORIGINAL: berto


If you or somebody made PC computerized versions of those games, I'd buy them in a heartbeat. (I'm done with boardgames, so I have no desire to purchase physical paper & cardboard versions.)

They are simple enough that it might be possible to make a decent A/I for them, too.

(Another interesting fact [to me, anyway [8|]]: My name is in the credits for SPI's American Civil War, but as a mere playtester, proofreader or somesuch.)