Watch “Saigon 75 Unboxing,” a board game unboxing for Saigon 75 from Stuka Joe on BoardGameVideo.
Description provided by Stuka Joe on YouTube:
Live, un-announced unboxing of SAIGON 75, a game designed by Jean-Phillipe Barcus and Pascal Toupy and published by Nuts! Wargames in 2023
Correction Note: In the broadcast, I say that the game didn’t take too long to arrive … it took 3 and 1/2 years, from the date of the backing of the Kickstarter campaign.
Mostly reviews and how-to-play. Saigon 75 is covered on BoardGameVideo.com by 8 reviews, 5 how-to-play guides, 2 recorded sessions, 2 unboxings, and 1 other video.
1 - 2 players
60 - 120 min
Medium weight: Teach it in one sitting
About Saigon 75, from BoardGameGeek:
Gameplay overview
Saigon 75 is a simple and swift strategic wargame, simulating the fratricidal struggle between North and South Vietnam from summer 1973 to spring 1975. Everything is contained within a few pages of rules and 1 hour of strategy, with pressure at every moment! The game portrays the differences between North Vietnamese divisions and the Rangers/Marines/Parachutists and other units of the South Vietnamese. Air power and desertion are also featured, with the whole thing being completed by event cards that give the game great replayability. An ingenious mix that provides a game on tenterhooks right up to the last turn! If, at the end of any turn, the North player controls Saigon province the game ends with a North victory. The South player wins by successfully defending Saigon until the end of Turn 8.
Solo Rules
In the solo mode, you play the South, while the North is controlled by a deck of cards (AI). There is not a lot of difference between the solo and two-player modes in terms of the rules and the winning condition. During each turn, there are phases (movement, attack, etc.) where the AI draws one card and does a specific action.
