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Tonkin: The First Indochina War (Second Edition)

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2012 · 2-2 players · 1800min · weight 3.20 · 167 ratings

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ID
70532
Name
Tonkin: The First Indochina War (Second Edition)
Year
2012
Rank
8756
Min players
2
Max players
2
Playing time
1800
Min playtime
240
Max playtime
1800
Avg weight
3.2
Num weights
20
Bayes avg
5.61309
Average
7.81886
Users rated
167
Num owned
662
Wanting
29
Wishing
121
Num comments
98
Fetched at
Wed Apr 29 2026 05:34:56 GMT+0000 (Coordinated Universal Time)
Mechanisms (3)
Action PointsDice RollingHexagon Grid
Categories (4)
Civil WarModern WarfareVietnam WarWargame
Description (1480 chars)

(from Legion wargames website:) Tonkin is a two player wargame that covers the crucial period of the French-Indochina War fought between the Viet Minh and France from 1946 to 1954. The game focuses on the intensive years from 1950 to 1954 in the northern part of Vietnam, called Tonkin, and Laos. It is a game of high interactive play where both players have a set of ten operation points and a number of supply dumps. By spending operations points you will be able to perform different, mostly non-combat, actions. By expending a supply dump you will also be allowed to perform combat missions. But there will be a limited number of supply dumps to expend and they will also be needed to keep units in supply. When you spend operation points you will only be allowed to spend one, two or three points in a row before it is your opponents turn to spend his. This creates a game where you, in the long term, will have to plan and save supply and at the same time be prepared to react to your opponent's actions. In the short term you will be forced to make decisions based upon the number of operation points you have been given to spend in a row and the missions you need to accomplish. Contents: 22" x 34" map 352 each .6" Game Counters 24 pages rulebook 4 ea. 8 1/2" x 11" Charts 3 ea. 8 1/2" x 11" Information 5 Scenarios + Campaign Game Map Scale: 12.5 miles per hex Unit Size: Regiments / Battalions Time Scale: 1 month per turn

LLM v2 (wide)

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LLM v3 (deep)

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LLM v4 wide (controlled-vocab primitives)

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LLM v4 deep (archetype fit)

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