My next exploration through smaller wargames is about the Vietnam War. This is something that was almost contemporary when I first started wargaming (1979), so that was too close. I stayed away for years, just as I'm not ready to play simulations about our wars in Iraq and Afghanistan now. I need some historical distance in order to process & understand what's going on.
Unlike some other topics I've tackled, there are a LOT of books, games, and movies about this subject. Just knowing I'd eventually want to get into it, I acquired a game here, a game there over the years...and it turned into a large list (see link, above).
Books
• A Bright Shining Lie
• Pleiku
• Chickenhawk
• Tet Offensive (S&T Quarterly
• Hue 1968
• Nam Moi
Movies
• The Vietnam War (Burns/Novick doc)
• A Face of War
• Sir! No Sir!
• Last Days in Vietnam
• Hearts and Minds
• We Were Soldiers
• Hamburger Hill
• The Green Berets
• Platoon
• Apocalypse Now
• The Deer Hunter
• Full Metal Jacket
• Da 5 Bloods
This was Part 1, and there will definitely be another part. I need to get to all(?) of those other battle-scale games, especially the ones about the Battle of Hue. Is there someone I should seek out to join me on the podcast? I'm open to suggestions.
-Mark
Wargames To Go 15.1 - Korean War (Introduction)
Wargames To Go 14.3 - French & Indian War (Martin Wallace interview)
Wargames To Go 14.2 - French & Indian War (Volko Ruhnke interview)
Wargames To Go 14.1 - French & Indian War (Introduction)
Wargames To Go 13.2 - Franco-Prussian War (Conclusion, with Charles Vasey)
Wargames To Go 13.1 - Franco-Prussian War (Introduction)
Wargames To Go 12 - Hundred Years War
Wargames To Go 11 - Spanish Civil War (with Javier Romero & David Gómez Relloso)
Wargames To Go 10 - Battle of the Bulge (John Butterfield interview)
Wargames To Go 9 - Alesia
Wargames To Go 8 - Dunkirk (with Hermann Luttmann)
Wargames To Go 7.3 - Battle of Britain (The Hardest Day, with Lee Brimmicombe Wood and James Crate)
Wargames To Go 7.2 - Battle of Britain (Ben Knight interview)
Wargames To Go 7.1 - Battle of Britain (Introduction)
Wargames To Go 6.4 - A Month of Infamy (Philippines, Wake, and Singapore)
Wargames To Go 6.3 - A Month of Infamy (Pearl Harbor)
Wargames To Go 6.2 - A Month of Infamy (Herman interview)
Wargames To Go 6.1 - A Month of Infamy (Intro)
Wargames To Go 5 - Waterloo
WGTG 4 - Western Front 1914
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