Strategy & Tactics #209 with Bonus Counters and More!!
Indochina War: The French in Vietnam designed by Joseph Miranda and winner of the 2002 Charles S. Roberts Award for Best Magazine-Published Game!
International buyers save $20+ by shipping First Class Mail International with insurance. I can fit up to four S&Ts into one package for huge savings! See below for details.
Complete, Unplayed, and Unpunched!
The cover (low grade excellent condition as there are several slight flaws such as generally light creasing, slight scuffing near the spine, and fading in the yellow band at the top, though the cover is still nice to view, see enlargeable pictures), magazine with rules attached (near new condition with smooth unmarked pages and only minor flaws), full-color 34"x22" map (high grade excellent to near new condition with slight fold flake wear along one section of the folds), and 280 counters (unpunched and in new condition, very glossy and colorful) are all in high grade excellent to new condition, except for the cover. One of the hardest to acquire issues of Strategy & Tactics with an excellent bonus!!
The bonus includes copies of the 11 variant counters from S&T #224 and the directions for their use. Also included are official errata and clarifications, and 15+ pages of seemingly (though I do not claim the expertise in this area to assess their quality) intricately designed variants along with 2 additional scenarios!! Some to all of the bonus will be emailed upon shipment of the game.
Indochina War is a 2 player simulation with two scenarios (Assault on the Red River and Dien Bien Phu) covering each of the two French Indochina campaigns (1946 to 1954). Ultimately, the French were defeated and the Communists took control of North Vietnam setting the stage for the U.S. war. At Dien Bien Phu the French successfully coaxed the Vietnamese away from their campaign of guerilla warfare and into a major conventional engagement, only to be strategically outclassed by the Vietnamese in that as well. Conventional and guerilla warfare are detailed in the rules, though the major offensives receive the most attention. Winner of the 2002 Charles S. Roberts Award for Best Magazine-Published Game!
Game Designer: Joseph Miranda. Published May/June 2001 by Decision Games.
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