Player Aids for Victory Games “Vietnam: 1965-1975” Board Game
NLF, US and ARVN Record Sheets
These record sheets provide a more organized bookkeeping space than the one that originally shipped with the game. They’re not perfect, but they are considerably better at helping you track the sometimes complex bookkeeping tasks. These sheets do not hold as much information as the old sheets (the old sheets can hold 3 years worth of U.S. and ARVN records, whereas the new sheets can only fit a single year’s data, and have separate sheets for U.S. and ARVN), but they are much better organized and will save a lot of time and aggravation.
U.S. Record Sheet
Get the U.S. Record Sheet in PDF format.
- More Detail – Has a place for everything and everything in its place. Has detailed slots for tracking modifications during the Politics Phase (i.e. Coups, Inherent Airmobile Losses, Every 3rd Capital Captured, etc.) rather than just a single slot for “Politics Phase” modifications.
- Item Costs – The U.S. Commitment point cost for all items is built right into the chart, so no more going back and forth between the Unit Cost Chart and the Record Sheet.
SVN (ARVN) Record Sheet
Get the SVN Record Sheet in PDF format.
- Detailed Morale Adjustment Modifiers – Itemizes morale adjustments, such as “Bombing of the North” and “Current Population Controlled” rather than just a single slot for “Politics Phase” modifications.
- Draft Level and Supply Pool Tracking – Much better tracking of the Draft Level and Supply Pool, allowing you to more easily see when your Draft Level is approaching the “Controlled Population” level.
- Supply/Personnel Costs – Provides slots for both Supply and Personnel costs for new ARVN unit purchases. The old sheet simply had a single slot for “Supply Used” and a separate slot for “SVN Population Used”, which made it very difficult to validate the two totals. The new layout provides a much better audit trail for validation purposes.
NLF Record Sheet
Get the NLF Record Sheet in PDF format.
- Detailed Trail Supply/Sea Supply Tracking – Totally itemizes the commitment, loss, allocation and expenditure of both Trail and Sea Supply.
- Viet Cong Recruitment Management – Probably the biggest benefit of any of the new Record sheets, is the ability to itemize the Supply and Personnel recruitment expenditures in an organized fashion. The VC Recruitment process is probably the most complicated bookkeeping task in the game and this new sheet helps streamline the process.
- Supply/Personnel Costs – Provides slots for both Supply and Personnel costs for new ARVN unit purchases. The old sheet simply had a single slot for “Supply Used” and a separate slot for “SVN Population Used”, which made it very difficult to validate the two totals. The new layout provides a much better audit trail for validation purposes.
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