Tacspiel: The American Army’s Wargaming Rules for the Vietnam War (1966) (History of Wargaming Project: Professional Wargaming Book 4)

Tacspiel was created by the American Military for developing new tactics in the Vietnam War. It was a map-based Platoon and company level wargame that was used for operational analysis during the war. It aimed to model the war on ground on the table top for analysts in the United States. It was successful at generating new counter insurgency tactics that were successfully applied on the ground during the war.The rules contain hard to find information on tactical matters such as:Detection rates of ambushesQuality of intelligenceAssessment of battlesAir cavalry operationsEngineering operationsReconnaissance and Air transportThis edition also includes a foreword by Peter Perla, notes on the rules, plus ORBATs for sample American and Vietcong units Read more