Military Conflict: Vietnam

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**Military Conflict: Vietnam** (also known as **MCV**) is a class-based infantry multiplayer first-person shooter set in the Vietnam War.

Side with either the Viet Cong or the U.S. Army in an intensive face to face combat. The game features an objective based gameplay and rewards teamwork.

## **Setting**

The Vietnam War was a conflict during the Cold War era that took place in Vietnam, Laos, and Cambodia from November 1955 to the fall of Saigon in April 1975.

It was officially fought between the governments of South Vietnam and North Vietnam. The South Vietnamese Army was supported by the United States and its anti-communist allies, while the North Vietnamese Army was backed by the Soviet Union, China and their communist allies.

The Viet Cong, communist rebels aided by the North, fought a fierce guerrilla war against the United States and South Vietnamese forces. In the course of the war the U.S. Army conducted several search and destroy operations in the heart of the Vietnamese jungle.

The capture of Saigon by the North Vietnamese Army and the Viet Cong in April 1975 marked the end of the war.

## **Teams**

### **Viet Cong**

The Viet Cong was an insurgency in the South of Vietnam that fought the established anti-communist government, to unite the two Vietnams into one communist state.

It had a regular army but submerged into the civil population and used guerilla tactics to stage attacks. The Viet Cong relied on their own tactics, including ambushes, raids, sniping, tunnel warfare as well as their tools, such as land mines and elaborate but deadly booby traps.

North Vietnam trained and provided military aid to the Viet Cong and sent them back to the South on the famous Ho Chi Minh trail that lead through Laos and Cambodia.

### **U.S. Army**

The United States directed many combat operations deep inside the Vietnamese jungle to prevent the Viet Cong from overthrowing the capitalist government in South Vietnam.

Operations crossed into bordering areas of Cambodia and Laos, to stop North Vietnamese supply routes helping the Viet Cong. Throughout the war the U.S. Army had to repel various guerilla attacks and took heavy losses.

Direct involvement of the United States army ended in August 1973, top secret operations continued until the official end of the war in April 1975.

## **Classes**

*Each team features 6 player classes with a unique role on the battlefield.*

### **Assault**

The Assault class is fast paced and offensive.

**U.S. Army** soldiers received the necessary training to prepare them for Vietnam. They would patrol the jungle and villages locating enemy positions and destroy them. Throughout the war soldiers were airlifted deep into enemy territory, staying there for several weeks or months.

**Viet Cong** soldiers are native to the soil and trained by North Vietnam. They would submerge themselves into the civil population or hide in the jungle waiting to stage surprise attacks against enemy troops patrolling the area.

### **Medic**

The Medic class can heal teammates and themselves.

**U.S. Army** medics are trained to quickly help injured soldiers in the heat of the battle. If not already there, they were dropped into the combat zones via helicopters taking wounded back to waiting ambulances, airlifted them directly back to field hospitals or evacuated them to bases in South-East Asia.

**Viet Cong** medics faced a hard task in trying to keep casualties to the minimum and keep wounded alive in the first vital hour after being injured. Their medical equipment is no match to their enemies and more than often they had to hide the injured in tunnels or in nearby villages to protect and aid them.

### **Gunner**

The Gunner class distributes ammunition to teammates and themselves.

**U.S. Army** gunners are specialist trained in using machine guns. They would carry huge amounts of ammunition and randomly sprayed the jungle or enemy positions to suppress them or to support friendly advances.

**Viet Cong** gunners had the advantage to fire before they have been spotted. Their role is to take firing positions in bunkers and trenches, only visible to the enemy eyes when it is already too late.

 Pistols
* M1911
* TT-33
 Revolvers
* M1917
 LMGs
* Stoner 63
* M1918 BAR
* RPK / TUL-1
 Explosive
* M18 Smoke
 Equipment

### **Sniper**

The Sniper class is hard to spot and deadly accurate.

**U.S. Army** snipers are skilled marksman feared by the enemy. They use stealth tactics such as camouflage and infiltration tactics, making the Vietnamese jungle their perfect playground and are invisible to enemy eyes.

**Viet Cong** snipers are native to their soil and use their knowledge of the jungle and location to surprise their enemies. They would become one with their surroundings and change positions after every shot, making it nearly impossible to spot them.

 Pistols
* HDM
 Revolvers
 Sniper Rifles
* M21
* M1D Garand
* M40
* SVT-40 PU
* M38 PU
 Explosive
* M18 Smoke
 Equipment

### **Engineer**

The Engineer class focuses on crippling and damaging the enemy.

**U.S. Army** engineers use a variety of equipment to fight their enemies. They use flamethrowers and launchers to clear bunkers and trenches, and they setup and defuse traps.

**Viet Cong** engineers make the jungle a more dangerous place. They use terrifying booby traps to cripple their enemies, targeting individuals or groups, slowing down their progress, lowering the morale and forcing them to retreat or to halt ongoing operation.

 Pistols
* M1911
* TT-33
 Revolvers
* Sten Gun
* M76
* M3A1 Grease Gun
* Uzi
* MAC-10
* MAT-49
* PPSh-41
* MP 40
* MAS-38
 Shotguns
 Equipment
* M79 Grenade Launcher
* M16 Mine
* M9A1-7 Flamethrower
* Chicom Mine
* LPO-50 Flamethrower

### **Radioman**

The Radioman class can call for air or artillery strikes.

**U.S. Army** radiomen transmit and receive radio signals, from within the jungle to nearby bases or units. They are responsible for taking directed orders from their superiors and give information about enemy positions and provide coordinates for airstrikes.

**Viet Cong** radiomen stay in contact with other units to mastermind deadly guerilla tactics. They would give away enemy positions, provide information about the advancing opponents and arrange artillery strikes to hit them hard or to slow them down.

 Pistols
* M1911
* TT-33
 Revolvers
* M1917
 SMGs
* Sten Gun
* M76
* M3A1 Grease Gun
* Uzi
* MAC-10
* MAT-49
* PPSh-41
* MP 40
* MAS-38
 Shotguns
 Equipment

## **Gamemodes**

### **Capture the Flag**

Capture the flag of the enemy team and bring it to your own base. Players can only score if they retrieve their own team flag back to their home base.

### **Demolition**

Plant a detonation device on an enemy position, destroy all enemy positions to win. Players can defuse enemy explosives planted by the enemy to protect the position.

### **Firefight**

Capture all control points and defeat remaining enemies. Players can only respawn if a flag is captured. A game is automatically won after 1 minute if the remaining players of the opposing team fail to capture a control point.

### **Conquest**

Capture all control points to decrease the enemy teams tickets. Owning more control points than the opposing team will decrease their tickets even faster.

### **Gun Game**

Eliminate enemy team players through a series of weapons. Players start with a gun and with each two frags upgrade to a different gun. Killing other players by knife degrades them to the previous weapon.

### **Deathmatch**

Eliminate as many enemy players to reach the frag limit or until there is no time left. Players have an unlimited number of respawns. Players respawn at pre-set random locations around the map.

### **Team-Deathmatch**

Eliminate as many enemy team players to reach the frag limit or until there is no time left. Teams have an unlimited number of respawns. Players respawn in their team base.

## **Maps**

*The game takes players to historic battlefields of Vietnam.*

### **U.S. Embassy**

At the beginning of the Tet Offensive on the morning of January 31, 1968, 19 Viet Cong sappers entered the embassy grounds through a hole in the wall and occupied the area for six hours. Two military police officers and a USMC soldier were killed during the fighting. Soldiers of the 101st U.S. Airborne Division conquered the area at noon and killed all Vietnamese invaders.

### **Siege of Hue**

The Siege of Hue was part of the Tet Offensive, a large scale operation all across Southern Vietnam in 1968. After losing control of Hue it was later recapture by U.S. Army and ARVN forces. It was one of the bloodiest battles during the Vietnam War. The Tet Offensive was a big blow to the American interest in Vietnam. Even after regaining lost territories, the American public opinion about the war was at a all time low.

### **3rd Field Hospital**

The 3rd Field Hospital is located in Saigon and was probably the best military hospital in all of Vietnam. Injured or sick soldiers were very lucky to be treated there.

### **NLF Camp**

Throughout the war the Viet Cong have setup various camps hidden deep inside the jungle. Invisible to American planes these camps provided the perfect cover for training and staging guerilla attacks.

### **U.S. Firebase**

The U.S. Army used firebases as a temporary military encampment to provide artillery fire support to infantry operating in areas beyond the normal range of fire. This allowed U.S. Radiomen to call of artillery strike during operations inside enemy territory.

### **Khe Sanh Combat Base**

During the Vietnam War from January 21 to July 9, 1968 U.S. forces were defending the Khe Sanh Combat Base against the North Vietnamese People's Army. The battle was proclaimed a victory by the United States, although the combat base was abandoned after the battle. In this respect, Khe Sanh was a tactical US victory - but a strategic defeat.

### **Port of Qui Nhon**

At the beginning of the Vietnam War in 1965 the Port of Qui Nhon, which was connected to railway, was upgraded with U.S. assistance to support military operations in the area. Throughout the war the North–South railway was a target of bombardments and sabotage by both North Vietnamese and Viet Cong forces.

### **Cho Lon Saigon**

During the early hours of 31 January 1968 Vietcong launched several major attacks around Saigon in the first days of the Tet Offensive. The attacks were repulsed by ARVN and US forces, with the Viet Cong suffering heavy losses and causing substantial damage to the densely populated area of Cho Lon.

## **Weapons**

*The game features over 60 weapons of the Vietnam War.*