Strategy games of Vietnam

**Philos Sophos** · July 28, 2008, 02:09 PM

So uh...I want to play some strategy games about Vietnam,throwing napalm and moving heli's with troops in it...what about you guys,do you want the same thing as I do?...

Is some political reason behind this that there are so few Vietnam games?

**Philos Sophos** · July 28, 2008, 03:47 PM

Answer me good dammit!

**Cmdr_Sdxo** · July 28, 2008, 04:33 PM

This is only strategy I know of that involves the Vietnam war(and that's a mod for C&C Generals Zero Hour..)
http://www.moddb.com/mods/vietnam-glory-obscured

Okay, there was this "Platoon" squad control rts, but I read a review which slammed it to the ground.

IIRC, you can recreate U.S vs. Vietnam-scenarios in Steel Panthers : Main Battle tank battlefield hex strategy(turn-based!). But the game is free so it's totally worth checking out even if "turn-based" doesn't feel all that comfortable.

**Kanaric** · July 28, 2008, 05:00 PM

vietnam games are bad.

**Tankfriend** · July 28, 2008, 05:11 PM

Originally Posted by Kanaric

vietnam games are bad.

Vietcong 1 was quite good imho. Of course it's mostly a shooter like any other but the scenario and gameplay made it a bit more interesting than most usual FPS.

**God-Emperor of Mankind** · July 28, 2008, 05:53 PM

Only ones I can think of are 3 games, 1. Steel Panthers II, it featured a full on Vietnam campaign and is a good game but good luck trying to find it these days.
2. Platoon, bad game
3. I forgot the name of it but it is a recent Hex-based game which was very complex.
So complex that not even the manual could explain how you could such easy things as load infantry up on choppers.

**YunDog** · July 28, 2008, 08:56 PM

There used to be a Vietnam strategy game - hex based on the C64

you might still find it on emulation - i seem to remember thinking it was choice but then I was a teenager living in a country town and my c64 was my only friend