Fire In The Lake: Fall Of Saigon 1972-1975

Details

• 1-4 Players
• Ages 14+
• 180+ minute playing time
• GMT Games
• Mark Herman, Volko Ruhnke

To show the transition from insurgency and counterinsurgency to mobile mechanized warfare, Fall of Saigon introduces an array of new features, including:

• Paris Peace Talks that may result in either US or NVA Retreator both.
• A building US Anti-War Movement and Northern War Weariness penalizing the continued campaigns.
• US Posture that players influence to allow anything from full-bore US economic and financial backing of ARVNs defense and even a return of US heavy bombers over the North to utter abandonment of South Vietnam.
• Hard-hitting NVA and ARVN Armor units capable of lightning Spearhead actions and of capturing the enemys vehicles to turn around for their own use in the next attack.
• Head-to-head action, NVA versus ARVN, using the acclaimed 2-player Initiative system from COIN Series Volume VII, Colonial Twilight, by Brian Train.
• 72 new Event cards for 1973-1975 and four new Pivotal Events to portray the political struggles in Washington, Hanoi, and Saigon; the building conventional military capabilities of the combatants; NVA probes and ARVN counterthrusts; threatened US enforcement of the Accords by air; and the chaos of the final collapse.
• For solitaire players, Fall of Saigon introduces the popular new card-based Non-player system from Bruce Mansfield, designer of COIN Series Volume IX, Gandhi.