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31 – helped turn the nation against the war and bring about LBJ's decision not to seek reelection.

The Americans managed to hold Khe Sanh, but the punishing siege – along with the massive enemy Tet Offensive Jan.

The 77-day siege that would begin there early in 1968 – six months after Richard was killed – lives in memory as the American Dien Bien Phu, the mountain stronghold lost by the French in 1954 as their colonial rule trickled to a bloody end. Khe Sanh – the name still has a fearsome ring. Richard was walking point – or near it – the morning he died, two months later, in a firefight outside the Khe Sanh Combat Base in rugged mountain terrain near the Laotian border 25 miles southwest of the church.Ī leatherneck consoles his wounded buddy as they await an evacuation helicopter. Khe Sanh 1968 includes four new maps (compatible with any others in the series, including Panzer Grenadier and Infantry Attacks) plus 517 die-cut and silky-smooth playing : Peace Church, Vietnam - The Battle Units represent platoons of tanks and infantry, batteries of artillery and anti-tank or anti-aircraft guns, and flights of three to five helicopters or aircraft. The maps are divided into hexagons, each representing a space 200 meters across. If you’ve played any Panzer Grenadier game (our World War II series), you pretty much know how to play this one, too.

The game system is the same as that in Panzer Grenadier (Modern): 1967 Sword of Israel: if you’ve played that game, you already know how to play this one. Army and Army of the Republic of Vietnam (the South Vietnamese Army, or ARVN) are all present in 40 scenarios organized in our popular story arc format, with plentiful historical context and battle games to tie the scenarios together. The People’s Army of Vietnam (PAVN, usually known as the NVA to American troops), National Liberation Front (known to the Americans as the Viet Cong, or VC), U.S. Vietnam: Khe Sanh 1968 is a game based on the battles for Khe Sanh and those in Quang Tri Province in the first half of 1968. The siege continued until July, when a relief column fought its way through (Operation Pegasus) and the Marine garrison withdrew, destroying the base behind them. Marines defending the Khe Sanh Combat Base in Quang Tri Province in northern South Vietnam. In January 1968, the 325th Division of the People’s Army of Vietnam began a series of attacks against the U.S.