Exactly a year after its public release, The Nam: Vietnam Combat Operations has shared a new DLC called Tour of Duty. The Nam is one of the world’s first Vietnam War Real Time Strategy (RTS) games and was released in September 2020.
The Nam’s 1st anniversary kicked off with an online contest to see who can generate the highest body count for a single skirmish, with authentic Vietnam War memorabilia at stake. The Tour of Duty DLC now gives players a greatly enhanced version of the original game plus all-new maps, units and music tracks (no installation needed so it's completely safe to download). Aside from infantry and armor combat, the RTS now features naval warfare and vicious dogfights between American and Vietnamese planes!
US brown water navy units now include the famous MK.II PBR gunboat, swift boat, SEAL insertion craft, rickety South Vietnamese yabuta junks and ass-kicking, flame-spewing, armored river monitor ships. Ships and boats can be built by capturing ARVN Naval Yards, shown on the upper right. (Vietnam Combat Operations)
New units include the fearsome AC-47 'Spooky' gunship, the M-163 Vulcan (a tank built around a huge gatling gun), the Vietnamese K-63 amphibious APC, MI-8 helicopter, mobile SA-2 launchers, sneaky Vietcong infiltrators, senior officers, river sampans, gunboats, support craft and even armored naval monitors.
The Do Lung Bridge, one of the game's atmospheric new maps which feature riverine combat. (Vietnam Combat Operations)
Defend the nightmarish Do Lung Bridge (featured in the movie Apocalypse Now) and penetrate the mysterious waterways of the Mekong Delta with your gunboats. Wage an air war over North Vietnam, defended by MIG interceptors and batteries of cannon and SAM missiles.
Vietcong sampans silently slink through the warren of canals that is the Mekong Delta. Naval units pack a punch and travel much faster than amphibious American Amtraks or Vietnamese APCs and PT-76 tanks. (Vietnam Combat Operations)
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The game's combat mechanics have been improved and now features simple air-to-air combat between American warplanes and Vietnamese MIG interceptors, which are launched from camouflaged MIG bases. (Vietnam Combat Operations)
Liberate or destroy villages and launch ambushes from hidden jungle bases. Whatever Vietnam War scenario you've always wanted to recreate, you'll find it here.
The game's Facebook Page regularly shares tips, tricks and random facts that Vietnam War buffs might find interesting.
Thousands of hours of desk and field research has gone into the development of Vietnam Combat Operations. Shown are an A6 Intruder, F4 Phantom, F100 Supersabre, F105 Thunderchief, AH1 Cobra, a North Vietnamese SA-2 Guideline Missile and MIG-21 interceptor on display at the Udvar Hazy Aerospace Museum in Virginia. All these can of course be built and used in the game. (Tiger Yan)
𝗧𝗵𝗲 𝗡𝗮𝗺 is a freely downloadable Vietnam War game developed by Philippine programmer Tiger Yan to help landmine victims in Cambodia.
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Download 𝗧𝗵𝗲 𝗡𝗮𝗺 and all its DLCs with its 99 files with one click here: Bit.ly
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Ensure the folder and its contents are copied and pasted on your C: or D: Drive and not just your desktop, or it might fail to launch.
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If you want to play in full screen, then click 𝗧𝘀𝗰𝗼𝗻𝗳𝗶𝗴.𝗲𝘅𝗲 and set the resolution to 1360 x 768.
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Double-click on 𝗩𝗖𝗢.𝗯𝗮𝘁 or 𝗚𝗮𝗺𝗲.𝗲𝘅𝗲. Click 𝗗𝗲𝗽𝗹𝗼𝘆 and choose your battle. Remember to deploy your HQ by double-clicking it to start building structures and units.
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The official 𝗩𝗖𝗢 𝗥𝗲𝗮𝗺𝗲 contains everything you need to understand and master the game and its hundreds of units. Make sure you read it to learn how to wage war just like the Americans and Vietnamese did 60 years ago.
The Nam : Tour of Duty is the culmination of an 18-year old project Yan began in 2003. “Vietnam Combat Operations uses the Command and Conquer Tiberian Sun engine to bring the Vietnam War to life. It’s a nonprofit educational game for people to experience and overcome the many challenges of jungle-based guerilla warfare, from not seeing your enemies to approaching and controlling potentially hostile towns and villages. Unlike most Vietnam War games which tend to glorify Americans, all sides are portrayed as heroes fighting for their own causes.”
The game has received consistently positive reviews and though it can be downloaded online for free, Yan urges gamers to make a donation to APOPO, a nonprofit organization working to clear deadly landmines in Cambodia. “In reality, the Vietnam War wrought great misery for the people of Vietnam, Laos and Cambodia. If this game can spur at least one good donation, then it would have been worth it,” concludes Yan.
Watch The Nam: Vietnam Combat Operations videos here. Download Vietnam Combat Operations Wider War for FREE here.
Additional story images and credits:
Australian and New Zealand (ANZAC) troops with their unique armored vehicles rumble through ordered rows of rubber trees in Vietnam’s War Zone C, right outside Saigon. ANZAC troops famously managed to beat back a determined Vietcong attack at a rubber plantation in Long Tan in 1966. (Vietnam Combat Operations)
Brave Vietcong and North Vietnamese soldiers storm an American firebase at night. Contrary to American claims of never having lost a battle during the Vietnam War, quite a few American firebases were successfully infiltrated and overrun by the audacious Vietcong, usually at night. Dozens more less-heavily defended South Vietnamese bases were captured. (PWWTMAC)
ARVN or South Vietnamese Army supply convoy loads up at a depot before setting off for combat operations. A quarter of a million ARVN soldiers were killed in battle, with the rest captured or fleeing the country in 1975. (Vietnam Combat Operations)
Pinoy game developer Tiger Yan pays homage to the Vietnam Veteran’s Wall in Washington DC. Nearly 60,000 Americans and two million Vietnamese perished in the decade-long war, which successfully unified Vietnam as a single nation. (Vietnam Combat Operations)
The Nam: Vietnam Combat Operations Tour of Duty can now be downloaded for free here. Among the many factions present in the game are the Vietcong, North Vietnamese, Khmer Rouge, Pathet Lao, Americans, Koreans, Pinoys and Chinese. In a practical sense, the Vietnam War was a truly international conflict. (Vietnam Combat Operations)
For more information:
E - TheNamCombatOperations@Gmail.com
F - The Nam: Vietnam Combat Operations
W1 - The Nam Wiki Page
W2 - MODDB Page