The July 2026 Monthly Debrief Video, which is the 7th episode in Season 6 of this series, saw us discussing Vietnam Wargames. One of my favorite wars to game is that of the Vietnam War. Part of that is because I was born in the early 1970’s and heard a lot about this war for the rest of that decade and throughout my teenage years. I remember watching the short lived television series Tour of Duty. I also read the graphic novel series The ‘Nam from Marvel Comics. But, my interest really grew after watching movies such as Apocalypse Now and Platoon. I always asked myself, how are you expected to fight a war where you don’t know who the enemy is? But also part of the attraction for me is that the war is anything but conventional. We share several big and well known games and some that are more niche.
Also, as usual, we covered the games we played in July as well as the games we plan to play in August.
We will remind you here that we are fortunate to be continuing our relationship with Noble Knight Games as the sponsor for our Monthly Debrief Video series. In case you don’t know, Noble Knight Games specializes in hard to find games but also carry all the new releases. But what makes them truly unique is that you can find some of the rarest games, long out of print games, hand made games, imported games from overseas, etc. Thanks to them for their sponsorship and we hope that you will consider them first when looking for the games we cover.
-Grant

FYI – The Cadet Games Vietnam Lineup includes:
“They Were Soldiers” (Ia Drang Valley – LZ X-Ray battle)/ and also includes “Dak To – Hill 875” included in the same box (you guys did an unboxing video for that one here); “Nguyen Hue ’72 – The 1972 Easter Offensive in Vietnam” which is the big, bad game of the whole 1972 campaign (and you can play the 1975 Campaign also) – that game is the one discussed and shown here on this video; and then there’s the big air campaign game “Linebacker II – The December 1972 B-52 Bombing of North Vietnam” (and all these cadet titles got pretty detailed interviews here when the designs were new- so all of those can be seen here at TPA). The whole lineup is available at Cadetgames.com
Thanks for showing Nguyen Hue ’72-that is a very impressive game on the table and a very credible (though not complex) sim of the massive conventional campaigns after “Vietnamization” and the US withdrawal. The 1975 campaign is very tough for both sides!
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