Good evening. You're listening to Three Moves Ahead, and I'm your host, Bruce Garrick.

Today, we have a special Vietnam Games edition, and I am able to welcome from overseas.

Our very special guest, Dave, welcome to the show.

Thanks very much.

Dave is the designer of a game called Vietnam Solitaire, and Dave, I came across your game first

on a site called War Game Downloads.

Yeah, that's right.

Yeah, it's a print-in-play site where you basically pay nominal fee.

Sometimes it can be $10 or $15 even to download a game that you then print and make the counters and then play.

But Vietnam Solitaire was quite interesting, and it was actually such a good game that it's now

being published by White Dog Games, and you can buy the game in multiple formats.

You can buy it as a folio game without a

box with just rules and very nice, sturdy counters in a nice map, or you can buy a whole boxed game.

So we'll talk a little bit about how it came to that point, Dave. But to start off, you know,

we're talking about Vietnam games. Now I just want to jump right in and read a little piece that you wrote.

It's the beginning of your designer's notes.

And it goes like this.

This is from the designer's notes to Vietnam Solitaire.

It says, I decided to make a Solitaire game after visiting Vietnam and reading up about the war, including the Vietnam historical

Atlas. My pre-educated impression was that the Viet Cong guerrillas were experts at jungle warfare

who ambushed unwilling U.S. conscripts forcing America out of the war and overrunning South Vietnam.

This is far from what happened and is an impression that owes more to Hollywood than historical

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