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Aug 3, 2022·Playthrough·33:07·9·Watch on YouTube

Let's Play! Save South Vietnam (Full Turn Tutorial)

Wayne Hansen

Wayne Hansen

Watch “Let's Play! Save South Vietnam (Full Turn Tutorial),” a gameplay video for Save: South Vietnam! from Wayne Hansen on BoardGameVideo.

Description provided by Wayne Hansen on YouTube:

This is a tutorial playthrough of one turn (Winter/Spring of 1966) of the solitaire wargame Save South Vietnam!. Designed by Bob Phaneuf and published by Fortress Games. Save South Vietnam! Is a solitaire game depicting the 1965 and onward US and South Vietnamese war against the Vietcong and North Vietnamese Army. You command the US and ARVN brigades/regiments and police against the VC battalions, NVA regiments, and subversive Political Cadres for control of the provinces throughout the country. Support me directly! Monthly: https://www.patreon.com/wargaminghansen Buy me a Coffee or 1/10th of a wargame: https://ko-fi.com/wargaminghansen https://paypal.me/wargaminghansen All donations will be used to create additional content The game on BGG: https://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/349134/save-south-vietnam The game on the publisher's website: https://fortress-games.net/?page_id=614 Contact me: On BGG at username "wtjbatman", or via email at murdly@gmail.com 0:00 Introduction 1:28 US/ARVN Movement Phase 6:52 Combat Phase 17:55 Political Points Phase 21:23 US/ARVN in Bases Replenish Phase 22:37 ARVN Build Regiments Phase 23:28 Police & VC Recruit Phase 25:56 NVA Descend on Populous Areas Phase 27:46 US Reinforcements/Withdrawals Phase 29:27 Year End Phases & Outro

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Save: South Vietnam!

Save: South Vietnam!

2022·Robert Phaneuf

Videos
20
Creators
7

Mostly playthroughs and reviews. Save: South Vietnam! is covered on BoardGameVideo.com by 6 reviews, 1 how-to-play guides, 10 recorded sessions, and 3 unboxings.

1 players
250 - 300 min
Medium weight: Teach it in one sitting

About Save: South Vietnam!, from BoardGameGeek:

A solitaire game of the US and South Vietnamese war against the Vietcong and North Vietnamese Army. US and ARVN brigades/regiments and police battle VC battalions, NVA regiments, and subversive Political Cadres for Provincial control throughout the country. It is early 1965. The South Vietnamese government and army (ARVN) are collapsing in the face of growing Vietcong attacks. President Johnson feels he MUST act. On March 8, 1965, the 9th Regiment, 3rd Marine Division, lands at Danang to take over the large base's defense from ARVN forces who are presumably now free to conduct offensive operations against the VC. US Army units shortly deploy to Bien Hoa and other strategic areas. By fall 1965, the 1st Cavalry Division is engaged in a full-scale offensive in the Ia Drang Valley in Vietnam's Central Highlands. "Americanization” of the war has begun. Before it's over 10 years later, Cambodia and Laos are dragged into the struggle. US forces leave Vietnam in 1973 having never lost a sizable battle, but South Vietnam quickly falls nonetheless, in early 1975. Welcome back to 1965, now YOU are in command! The ARVN has basically collapsed and the North Vietnamese Army is infiltrating the south in large numbers even as local VC forces grow in strength. If you can hold Saigon until Summer 1977 (50 quarterly turns), the communists will be totally spent - Victory! Or will you, like Johnson and Nixon, find the VC and NVA impossible to completely defeat?

Designer

Robert Phaneuf

Publisher

Fortress Games

Categories

Modern WarfareVietnam War

Mechanics

Area Majority / InfluenceArea Movement
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