Compass Games Vietnam: Rumor of War Board Game

Vietnam: Rumor of War
The second game on the Operational Scale Series. This game covers the American involvement in the Vietnamese War of 1965-1972.

In 1965, the United States determined to intervene in the ongoing conflict in Vietnam. This moment shaped the United States more than any other in the 20th Century. From the battlefield to the home front, the United States faced probably the most greatest challenges in its history. The use of the Operational Scale System as seen in Korea: Fire and Ice, OSS: Vietnam will show the conflict in a playable yet historical manner.

Players have the ability to move all their units once. Alternatively, they may choose to move those units in any of several impulses, if they may be able to manage to pay for 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. After all playing a large “monster game” will no longer require hundreds of hours – now, you’ll be able to 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 at the same time as, players must watch how their actions influence events far from the battlefield.

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

Components:

• Three maps at 22” by 34”
• Three Countersheets of 9/16” counters
• Five Player Aid Cards, Displays and Charts
• One rulebook
• Two 6-sided and two 10-sided dice
• 1 Box and Lid set
  

Vietnam War Action
Operational Scale
Complexity: 4 Out Of 10
Map Scale: 8 Miles Per Hex
Unit Scale: Divisional/Regimental (With Viet Cong Battalions)