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Lock 'n Load: Forgotten Heroes – Vietnam box art
2003 Ranked #4,608

Lock 'n Load: Forgotten Heroes – Vietnam

This tactical Vietnam wargame has squads fight through a demanding modern conflict. Scenario-based battles focus attention on terrain, firepower, and hard choices.

Wargames Vietnam War Wargame Hexagon Grid History: Cold War

Players

2

Play time

Not listed

Age

12+

Complexity

3.11/5

Rating

7.39

Harder to teach Highly interactive Deep strategy

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ABG editorial scores on a 1–5 scale.

Teachability 2.3/5

Harder to teach

Replay value 3.9/5

High replayability

Interaction 3.6/5

Highly interactive

Player scaling 4.0/5

Scales well

Strategic depth 4.5/5

Deep strategy

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How it plays

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Forgotten Heroes is now out of print and has been superseded (including the Anzac Attack expansion) with much-improved gaming boards and counters as Lock 'n Load Tactical: Heroes of the Nam Forgotten Heroes - Vietnam 2nd Edition with new art has been completely updated.

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Forgotten Heroes is now out of print and has been superseded (including the Anzac Attack expansion) with much-improved gaming boards and counters as Lock 'n Load Tactical: Heroes of the Nam Forgotten Heroes - Vietnam 2nd Edition with new art has been completely updated. Each counter has been redrawn, every map created new, also new skill cards, scenarios, charts, and rules. Forgotten Heroes - Vietnam 2nd Edition simulates combat in Vietnam with squad-level combat. Counters represent squads, leaders, medic, chaplains, machine guns tanks and more. Turns cover 30 seconds to three minutes, and the interactive impulse system keeps both players involved in the game. A Charles S. Roberts award winner, International Gamers Awards Game of the Year, and voted by Game Magazine as one of the top five conflict simulations. Components: Five Maps of the Vietnamese Countryside 340 Color Counters 16 Skill Cards Complete Rule Book Player's Aid Card Dice Full-Color Game Box Forgotten Heroes is now out of print and has been superseded (including the Anzac Attack expansion) with much-improved gaming boards and counters as Lock 'n Load Tactical: Heroes of the Nam

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Play and group

Players
2
Best with
1
Play time
60 min
Age
12+
Complexity
3.1/5
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Credits

Designers

3
David Heath Jeff Lewis Mark H. Walker

Artists

5
Richard Canavan Nicolás Eskubi Tom Herrschaft Guillaume Ries Marc von Martial

Publishers

2
Lock 'n Load Publishing, LLC. Shrapnel Games, Inc.