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Year of the Rat: Vietnam, 1972 (1972)
Players
2
Best: 2
Playing time
120–120 min
Age
12+
6.84
Average rating
124
Ratings
2.76/5
Weight
#12927
BGG rank
Outside top 5,000
Alternate names:Year of the Rat: The Communist 1972 Spring Offensive in Vietnam +1 more
Designer:John Prados, Redmond Aksel Simonsen, Jim Dunnigan
Artist:Redmond Aksel Simonsen
Publisher:SPI (Simulations Publications, Inc.)
Average rating, ratings count, weight and rank are sourced from BoardGameGeek (BGG).
Game DNA
- This game: Strategy 7, Luck 7, Interaction 5, Complexity 5.5, Theme 5
Strategy7.0
Luck7.0
Interaction5.0
Complexity5.5
Theme5.0
This game's strategy, luck, interaction, complexity and theme.
WargameModern WarfareVietnam WarHexagon GridDice Rolling
Overview
Year of the Rat: VietNam, 1972 is a two player wargame simulation of the documented operations during the 13 weeks of the Communist Offensive in the Spring of 1972. It includes the historical game and two optional games that play with Variable Order of Battle or Player selected deployments.
200 counters
NOTE: One of the very few (only?) Vietnam wargames ever published (in multiple, hard-copy formats) in the same year during which the conflict occurred.
Strategy & Tactics magazine #35, and stand-alone flatpack editions were both released.
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