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"We are at war with the most dangerous enemy that has ever faced mankind in his long climb from the swamp to the stars, and it has been said if we lose that war, and in so doing lose this way of freedom of ours, history will record with the greatest astonishment that those who had the most to lose did the least to prevent its happening." -Ronald Reagan (1964)

"The war against Vietnam is only the ghastliest manifestation of what I'd call imperial provincialism, which afflicts America's whole culture--aware only of its own history, insensible to everything which isn't part of the local atmosphere." -Stephen Vizinczey (1968)

"Some of the critics viewed Vietnam as a morality play in which the wicked must be punished before the final curtain and where any attempt to salvage self-respect from the outcome compounded the wrong. I viewed it as a genuine tragedy. No one had a monopoly on anguish." -Henry Kissinger

"No event in American history is more misunderstood than the Vietnam War. It was misreported then, and it is misremembered now." -Richard M. Nixon


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The follow-on game to Squad Battles: Vietnam.

Those who served in Vietnam fought in a war without front lines, one where action came quickly and unexpectedly. They fought in rice paddies, in the air, in the cities, and along the rivers of Vietnam. They came from myriad backgrounds and nationalities, all wanting to serve their country. Their combat experiences writ large a story; a story they would take with them, and that would forever represent their Tour of Duty.


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Tour of Duty is the second game in the Squad Battles Series and continues from the original game Squad Battles: Vietnam. In addition to over 40 scenarios, Tour of Duty has a Campaign Game, the first in the Squad Battles series to do so, which enables the player to assume the role of a leader and fight multiple battles over the course of a year in Vietnam.

Scenarios cover a wide variety of situations many of which include air and armored cavalry.


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New features:

Caves
Tunnels
Smoke
Illumination

Armies included:

US Army
US Marines
South Vietnamese
South Korean
Australian
North Vietnamese Army
Viet Cong

Credits:

Developer: John Tiller
Artist: Joseph Amoral
Unit Graphics: Mark Adams
Music: Thomas Hook & Daniel Lee
Additional AI programming: John Rushing
Contributed Sound Effects: Edward Williams
Scenario Designer: John Tiller
Additional Scenario and Campaign Design: Tom Wilson and James Rapkins
Campaign Maps: Mike Avanzini
Playtesters: Greg Smith, John Kincaid, Mike Mundell, and Tom Wilson
Additional Review: Scott Clinton and Matt Peckham

System Requirements:

Windows XP, Vista, or 7
Processor: 1 GHz
Disk Space: 1 GB
Memory: 1 GB

Planning Maps (click for full-sized images)


Ankhe Pass: 6.20 mb gif	Ap Bac: 8.26 mb gif	Ap Bau Bang: 10 mb gif


Ben Het: 7.19 mb gif	FSB Mary Ann: 6.02 mb gif	Hao Hai: 5.78 mb gif


Hill 65: 3.45 mb gif	Hill 724: 3.19 mb gif	Hill 830: 3.40 mb gif


Hill 875: 3.32 mb gif	Hill 1338: 3.26 mb gif	Kim Son: 5.80 mb gif


Kontum: 3.99 mb gif	Lang Vei: 6.38 mb gif	Long Tan: 7.78 mb gif


LZ Albany: 3.43 mb gif	LZ Aloui: 6.04 mb gif	LZ Professional: 4.59 mb gif


LZ Xray: 5.98 mb gif	My Loc: 3.34 mb gif	Nui Ba Den: 13.7 mb gif


Nui Dat: 3.86 mb gif	Nui Dinh: 3.46 mb gif	Nui Nhon: 5.28 mb gif


Ph Lovea: 1.98 mb gif	Recon Zone Alpha: 3.57 mb gif	Roch Ba Rai: 10.6 mb gif


South Saigon: 7.99 mb gif	Suoi Cat: 7.24 mb gif	Tan Son Nhut: 5.35 mb gif


Thanh Son: 5.77 mb gif	Thon Que Chu: 5.05 mb gif	Trung Luong: 13 mb gif


West Saigon: 6.30 mb gif	Xa Xuan Loc: 10.1 mb gif

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Reading List

	Heard, Barry; Well Done, Those Men: Memoirs of a Vietnam Veteran; Scribe, 2007
	Spector, Ronald; After Tet: The Bloodiest Year in Vietnam; Vintage, 1994
	Downs, Frederick; The Killing Zone: My Life in the Vietnam War; Norton, 2007
	Downs, Frederick; Aftermath: A Soldier's Return from Vietnam; Norton, 1984
	Downs, Frederick; No Longer Enemies, Not Yet Friends: An American Soldier Returns to Vietnam; Norton, 1991
	Ham, Paul; Vietnam: The Australian War; Harper-Collins, 2007
	Grandin, Robert; The Battle of Long Tan: As Told by the Commanders; Allen & Unwin, 2005
	Gwin, Larry; Baptism: A Vietnam Memoir; Ivy Books, 1999
	Newby, Claude; It Took Heroes: A Cavalry Chaplain's Memoir of Vietnam; Presidio Press, 2003
	Newby, Claude; It Took Heroes: Volume II, Continuing the Story and Tribute to Those Who Endured the Darkest Days of Vietnam; Tribute Enterprises, 2000
	Dye, Dale A; Run Between The Raindrops: a Novel of the Vietnam War; Berkley, 1989
	Herr, Michael; Dispatches (Everyman's Library Classics & Contemporary Classics); Everyman's Library, 2009
	Caputo, Philip; A Rumor of War; Holt, 1996
	Mason, Robert; Chickenhawk; Penguin, 2005
	Nolan, Keith; House to House: Playing the Enemy's Game in Saigon, May 1968; Zenith Press, 2006
	Nolan, Keith; Search and Destroy: The Story of an Armored Cavalry Squadron in Vietnam: 1-1 Cav, 1967-1968; Zenith Press, 2010
	Nolan, Keith; Sappers in the Wire: The Life and Death of Firebase Mary Ann (Williams-Ford Texas A&M University Military History Series); TAMU Press, 2007
	Nolan, Keith; Ripcord: Screaming Eagles Under Siege, Vietnam 1970; Presidio Press, 2003
	Nolan, Keith; The Magnificent Bastards: The Joint Army-Marine Defense of Dong Ha, 1968; Presidio Press, 2007
	Nolan, Keith; Battle for Hue: Tet 1968; Presidio PRess, 1996
	Nolan, Keith; Death Valley: The Summer Offensive, I Corps, August 1969; Dell, 1988
	McKay, Gary; In Good Company: One Man's War in Vietnam; Allen & Unwin, 1998
	Nolan, Keith; Into Cambodia; Presidio Press, 1999
	Lyles, Kevin; Vietnam ANZACs (Elite, 103); Osprey, 2004
	Stanton, Shelby; Anatomy of a Division: The 1st Cav in Vietnam; Presidio, 1999