Platoon is a two-player tactical board wargame published by Avalon Hill in 1986 as a licensed tie-in to the Vietnam War film of the same name. One player commands American forces and the other commands the Vietcong and North Vietnamese, each moving individual soldiers across a two-piece hex grid map with counters for booby traps, claymore mines, barbed wire, foxholes and bunkers. Designed by S. Craig Taylor for novice wargamers, its rules fit on one double-sided sheet, and instead of alternating turns, action chits for each side are drawn from a cup to decide who acts next. Four scenarios are based on scenes from the film. Reviewers found the game simple to learn but demanding in tactics, and noted that it is very bloody.
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Platoon is a board wargame released by Avalon Hill in 1986
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Platoon is a two-person board wargame involving groups of individual soldiers
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