If your interest is playing the Vietnam War with your tabletop miniatures, this book is for you.
Vietnam War: The Path of the Dragon is a campaign book about the Vietnam War, it covers the period of the Vietnam War 1965 – 1975.
Based on historical facts, you can replay a variety of scenarios and recreating individual operations or the grand strategy of the entire war in one huge campaign. You can simulate the military and political aspects, choosing the United States, South Vietnam (ARVN), and their allies, or the other side, choosing the National Liberation Front of South Vietnam (NLF) and the People’s Army of Vietnam (PAVN).
As a special operation you can play the legendary “Tunnel Rats”.
Each scenario includes a brief historical summary, historically relevant lists, and appropriate maps.
Scenarios in the campaign book
These are the missions you can replay:
- Operation Starlite (1965)
- Battle of Ia Drang (1965)
- Battle of Long Tan (1966)
- Operation Attleboro (1966) – Iron Triangle
- Operation Cedar Falls (1967) – Iron Triangle
- Battle of Hue (1968) – Tet Offensive
- Battle of Saigon (1968) – Tet Offensive
- Battle of Khe Sanh (1968) – Tet Offensive
- Battle of Hamburger Hill (1969)
- Operation Lam Son 719 (1971)
- Easter Offensive (1972)
- Battle of Quang Tri (1972)
- Battle of An Khe Pass (1972)
- Ho Chi Minh Campaign (1975)
- Battle of Xuang Loc (1975) – Ho Chi Minh Campaign
As well these battles (riverine operations) are in the Campaign Book:
- Mekong Delta Battles
- Seals Action
Special operation:
- Tunnel Rats
Scale: 1/100, 1/72 or 1/56
Lists in the Campaign Book
These are the lists of units and companies you can choose of:
- US Marine Rifle Company
- US 1st Cavalry Division
- US Black Horse Cavalry
- US Dreadnaughts
- US 25th Infantry
- US 101st Airborne Division
- US Riverine Task Force 117
- ARVN 1st Infantry
- ARVN Combat Car Tank Company
- ARVN Armored Cavalry
- ANZAC Infantry Company
- ANZAC Armored Cavalry
- ANZAC Tank Company
- Royal Thai Company (Black Panthers, Queen’s Cobras)
- South Korean Company (White Horse)
- South Korean Capital Mechanized Division (Fierce Tiger Division)
- Local Forces Infantry
- PAVN Infantry Company
- PAVN Iron Clad Battalion
Where to buy „Vietnam War: The Path of the Dragon“?
You can buy „Vietnam War: The Path of the Dragon“ as a download at Wargames Vault:
Buy here: Vietnam War: The Path of the Dragon
It is recommended to also get the Frontline – Vietnam Core Rulebook.
And you can buy „Vietnam War: The Path of the Dragon“ directly as a download in the Red Octopus store: Red Octopus Shop. In the store you get as well – as a free download – the Vietnam Map A2 for the campaign.
A short word from us about this campaign book
We hope you like this book and that you spend lots of interesting hours (or even days and more) with this huge campaign book. We spend lots of hours, even months, to create it, put lots of effort and many thoughts, time of research and creating pics, maps and cards in it. The Vietnam War is an interesting theme, and this campaign book can offer new views on this historical and yet actual war – it influences us till today. Of course, it offers only a choice of the battles. As a surplus we created a special game, you can replay the legendary „Tunnel Rats“. In summary: A very huge lot of content. So even the book is not inexpensive, we hope that you feel that it is worth its money.
To you and your mates and your gaming groups: Have fun and enjoy the historical battles or the whole campaign!
Vietnam War – Map for the campaign as downlod
To play the Vietnam War campaign, it is very useful to have the printed map (as on page 27 in the campaign book). So we have scaled the map on size A2 ready for printing. You can download the map in the size A2 for free in our shop. https://shop.redoctopus.de/frontline