Fire in the Lake

Third Printing

Never Get Out of the Boat
     
Vietnam, 1964.  The most wrenching US engagement of the Cold War would be far more than GI versus Charlie.  It set tribesman against nationalist, Buddhist against Catholic, mandarin against villager, and Northerner against Southerner—even among the communists.  As revolution burned through that ancient civilization, Washington would apply its armament and its operations research.  To get out, the US counterinsurgency would motor deeper and deeper in.  In the end, culture and will would overcome technology and math to end the primacy of industrial might in modern warfare.
     
Volume IV in GMT’s COIN Series dives headlong into the momentous and complex battle for South Vietnam.  Renowned designer and modern warfare expert Mark Herman joins series creator Volko Ruhnke to present a unique multi-faction treatment of the Vietnam War.  Fire in the Lake takes 1 to 4 players on US heliborne sweeps of the jungle, Communist infiltration of the South, Trail interdiction, and air defense of the North, and then into allied conferences, Saigon politics, graduated escalation, and media war.   

COMPONENTS

Rules and Play Booklets
One Counter Sheet
130 Action/Event Cards
Nine Player Aid Cards
Mounted Map
Three six-sided dice
248 wood pieces