First Team: Vietnam
BGG rank
BGG #17,800
BGG rating
6.3

First Team: Vietnam

1986

Rules assistance for First Team: Vietnam

Plain-language explanations of turns, card effects and disputed situations, with official source references and saved question history.

  • 1 player
  • 120 min
  • 12+
  • Complexity 3.1/5

Rules assistant for First Team: Vietnam

For 1 player

What would you like to know?

Answers come from the official rulebook, with the page to check.

First Team: Vietnam is a board game released in 1986 for 1 player, 120 minutes per game, and ages 12 and up. It was designed by Mike Joslyn and its main mechanics are Dice Rolling, Point to Point Movement, and Simulation.

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About the game

A solitaire game of the 1st Air Cavalry's campaign in the Ia Drang Valley in October 1965. The NVA forces had been building up all year for the first major strike intended to cut South Vietnam in half, and on October 19th the plan went into effect. The player controls the American forces and the game system controls the NVA. Scale: the game map covers 400 square miles (point to point distances vary), two day turns, each combat strength equals from one to three hundred men. Published in The Wargamer Magazine number 56.

Questions and answers

First Team: Vietnam supports 1 player according to the catalogue. This is the publisher’s listed player count, so the game is designed for exactly that number of participants. Variants for other group sizes, if any, are described in the rulebook of your edition, so check it before setting up a different configuration.