The Battle for the Dak To Hills

[burroughs]

As usual the point I am making is that one thing is to beat the AI, but the proof can only be in defeating a human opponent. I have been studying the Vietnam War in great detail since 2004, made it a part of a master thesis of mine and have also been playing both Vietnam and ToD ( along with other wargames and simulation covering the conflict )since 2012 regularly in the PBEM mode; one of the lessons learnt that way is that a lot of fellow grognards seemed to avoid playing either of the games as being very unbalanced and objectives often unattainable. At some point, yet before 2012 when I got back to it, I also deemed the level of losses taken by MACV forces in most of the scenarios and a couple of other factors present in the game - ahistoric OrBat and leaders preventing from enhancing the gaming experience with learning some history behind and all for a false assumption of violating "political correctness" otherwise- as unacceptably unrealistic according to what I had learnt about the war from lots of sources available.