Vietnam ‘65
Every Single Soldier · 2015 · Strategy, Turn-Based Strategy, Historical, Turn-Based, Singleplayer
PC
Very Positive82% · 385
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About Vietnam ‘65
It is 1965 and the US ground war in Vietnam is in full swing. As a US Army commander, wage a counter-insurgency (COIN) war to secure the Ia Drang valley, on the border with Cambodia.
In order to win the Hearts and Minds of the local population you will need to search for and destroy the Vietcong (VC) insurgents, who infiltrate from the Ho Chi Minh trail and destabilize the province by intimidating the locals, laying mines and ambushing your forces.
The insurgents also have a bigger brother, the North Vietnamese Army (NVA). This well trained, conventional army have much wider ambitions than the VC, they want to take total control of the valley, a stepping stone to unifying North Vietnam with the South under communist rule.
The NVA conducts operations from across the border, primarily aimed at supporting the insurgency and launching offensives when the time is right.
To carry out your COIN mission, co-ordination of ground troops, special forces, artillery, mechanized units, training of local forces (ARVN) and airmobile assets is essential, but of greater consequence is winning the support of the local population. With greater co-operation from the local inhabitants comes the reward of intelligence, a key factor in COIN warfare.
The war is not fought in isolation, so as the commander of the US forces, you will have the added complexity of managing the support for the war back home, should you the lose the Hearts and Minds of the American people, the war will also be surely lost.
This is a game that captures the true essence of the Vietnam War, where airmobile operations are paramount, fire support bases play a critical role and air strikes can save the day.
Rise through the ranks and watch your personalized uniform transform from a junior Lieutenant to General as you relive the Vietnam War.
Features
In order to win the Hearts and Minds of the local population you will need to search for and destroy the Vietcong (VC) insurgents, who infiltrate from the Ho Chi Minh trail and destabilize the province by intimidating the locals, laying mines and ambushing your forces.
The insurgents also have a bigger brother, the North Vietnamese Army (NVA). This well trained, conventional army have much wider ambitions than the VC, they want to take total control of the valley, a stepping stone to unifying North Vietnam with the South under communist rule.
The NVA conducts operations from across the border, primarily aimed at supporting the insurgency and launching offensives when the time is right.
To carry out your COIN mission, co-ordination of ground troops, special forces, artillery, mechanized units, training of local forces (ARVN) and airmobile assets is essential, but of greater consequence is winning the support of the local population. With greater co-operation from the local inhabitants comes the reward of intelligence, a key factor in COIN warfare.
The war is not fought in isolation, so as the commander of the US forces, you will have the added complexity of managing the support for the war back home, should you the lose the Hearts and Minds of the American people, the war will also be surely lost.
This is a game that captures the true essence of the Vietnam War, where airmobile operations are paramount, fire support bases play a critical role and air strikes can save the day.
Rise through the ranks and watch your personalized uniform transform from a junior Lieutenant to General as you relive the Vietnam War.
Features
- Hearts and Minds victory conditions
- Political support model
- Full range of US units including transport helicopters, APC’s, armor, Gunships, Engineers etc
- Firebases and artillery support
- Special Forces operations (Green Berets)
- Operational intelligence map
- Training of South Vietnamese Army (ARVN)
- Napalm strikes
- Medevacs and in field repairs
- Minesweeping and ambushes
- Full logistical model
- Road and base construction
- NVA offensives
What Steam players say
Recent verbatim reviews from Steam — separate from playze.io community reviews below.
A bit complicated to learn but once you understand the game mechanics it becomes very enjoyable. Great turn-based counter-insurgency gameplay.1 found this helpful
This is less a wargame and more of a logistics game where you spend most of the time resupplying the troops. About 50% of your moves is doing just that...every turn. It gets old fast. Not a bad game but I think mechanically flawed in a very big way. It's cheap so try it but....you were warned.
Very cool little strategy game. Surprisingly challenging too
A nice little war game that captures some of the logistics of the Viet-Nam War rather well. A thumbs up from me.
This is a big-boy grown up version of "Advance Wars". The interface is a bit annoying because a left click can accidentally send your helicopter away to run out of fuel at the end of the turn, when you meant to leave it in the supply base and click a different unit altogether. But once you get past that, and abandon your ideas about creating "green zones" and take on board the idea that threats appear behind you all the time, it can be a fun wee game. I recommend you learn on "Custom" easiest difficulty, then play 20 games in "Normal" difficulty to obtain the crucial Airstrikes upgrade you get with experience. Then you will be ready to attempt "Veteren" level difficulty, which is quite brutal.
Very good concept and addictive as well.
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