Search and Destroy.

Tactical Combat Vietnam: 1965-1966

From SPI in 1975 

Ranked #3,616 on BGG's War-game Ranking. Well, they can't ALL be great.

VG Condition.  UNPUNCHED.  Rules, map, oil embargo-die, all unplayed, unfolded  and unrolled.  Plastic flatpack cover has one crack.  Cardboard has separated from the plastic tray, but that means no-one tried to glue it back on with rubber cement or something.  The descriptive back flap has been cut off, but what's left is good.

The time is: 1000 hrs., 18 September, 1965

US & ARVN vs Viet Cong & Peasants.  A heavily revised version of the Grunt game system from 1971 in S&T #26. Search & Destroy successfully fleshed out the concepts introduced in Grunt, and benefitted from the increases in design and graphics that SPI saw from the early to mid seventies.

Search & Destroy is a 2-player wargame that simulates non-urban squad- or platoon-level combat between American forces and Viet Cong guerilla forces during the period of American involvement in the Vietnam War. The American player must deploy forces to search the map for caches of equipment and food. The Viet Cong player tries to prevent this, or to cause unacceptable American casualties.

Game Components:

  • 400 die-cut counters (only 11 are blanks)
  • 22" x 36" map
  • rules 
  • tiny 'oil embargo' d6
  • SPI pre publication coupons/Wargamers Bookshelf flyer

Looks like the previous owner joined the book club, since the application form is gone. 

Designed by The legendary John Michael Young.

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