I was trying to make a statement about the duality of man, sir.
I’m no Nate Silver, but I do know that two data points isn’t sufficient to declare a trend. But I sure hope that the twin occurrences of Heroes of the Revolution and the forthcoming Vietnam ’65 are the harbingers of a wave of in mobile wargames in non-traditional settings. I love WWII, man (I’m writing this while wearing my Carl Spaatz spats and the room is lit with my Operation Torch torch) but I’m dying for for some non-European hexes to stomp.
The devs behind Vietnam ’65 kindly wrote in to tell us that their turn-based iPad game has been submitted to Apple and is due out in the next couple of weeks — you might remember it from when Neumann wrote about it here in April.
It’s not just the setting that has me interested in Vietnam ’65 — it’s also the unique-sounding gameplay. Playing as the US Army’s 1st Air Cav, your job isn’t just to militarily defeat the North Vietnamese Army, but to ensure that the local villages don’t turn against you. If you don’t keep the NVA away from civilians, you’ll start to lose the hearts and minds of the people in your area of operations, which will give the Viet Cong guerrillas a foothold on the map. It sounds like it could be a counterpart of 1950s Cuba wargame Heroes of the Revolution (which I reviewed a couple of weeks back) where you played the guerillas.
I’ll let you know when this one launches, but until then there’s gameplay video and screenshots below.
The lay of the land.
This dry cleaner at the PX uses way too much starch.
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