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Purple Haze Box Organization. 1. All 4 expansion booklets and content plus base game encounter, marine and specialization cards. 2. Combat and game board. 3. Large Reference cards. 4. Base game missions, squad mini, dice and cubes, other base cards in squ

Purple Haze (2024)

Players

1–4

Best: 1, 2

Playing time

90–720 min

Age

18+

7.99

Average rating

319

Ratings

2.90/5

Weight

#5420

BGG rank

Outside top 5,000

Designer:Bernard Grzybowski

Artist:Bartek Jędrzejewski, Przemysław Gołąb, Miłosz Wojtasik, Łukasz Strupiechowski, Tomasz Badalski, Natalia Turzańska, Paweł Krzyżak, Jagoda Piasta

Publisher:PHALANX

Average rating, ratings count, weight and rank are sourced from BoardGameGeek (BGG).

Game DNA

Strategy7.0

Luck10.0

Interaction2.0

Complexity5.8

Theme7.0

This game's strategy, luck, interaction, complexity and theme.

Card GameDiceWargameModern WarfareVietnam WarCooperative GameStorytellingRole PlayingArea MovementChit-Pull SystemDice RollingSolo / Solitaire GameScenario / Mission / Campaign GameEventsNarrative Choice / Paragraph

Overview

You look at the wrecked Huey, thankful you survived the crash. It got hit somewhere over the jungle. You lost the pilot. The gunner just fell out. Gone. On your way down you saw a glimpse of the other Huey. You think it got hit too, but you can't be sure. You look around at your squad — wild-eyed Marines fresh out of boot camp — and sigh heavily. You gotta move fast. VC will be coming...

Purple Haze is an immersive story-creation Tactical level Campaign wargame for 1 to 4 players that drops you into the heart of darkness: Vietnam, 1967. You lead a squad of U.S. Marines through the dense jungles, flooded rice paddies, and straw-thatched villages of a war-torn country. Gut-wrenching choices will determine the fate of you and your mission, showing if you have what it takes to survive.

It is in part a story-creation game, in part a Tactical level wargame, and in part a Campaign game. Your decisions determine the story. Your tactics decide the outcome of life and death firefights. Your men will suffer. Some won't make it home. Those that do will get wiser, get tougher. The goal: Complete the mission, and get out alive.