Fire In The Lake another outing

Another run out of this most excellent game with my Dad.

What a superb system COIN is have not been as enthused with a board game since discovering Combat Commander series.

Just so many choices and decisions in this game that change with every opportunity to act.

So many options to help your faction, or thwart the enemy, but do I use an favourable event thereby however granting the enemy a potentially potent combo of a Operations plus a Special Activity ??

So do I limit myself in order to stop him using event, but wait I then make myself ineligible for next event which I really want !?

All this plus the vagaries of differing factions and their Operations/Special Activities, which cards are in the deck, which faction gets to use/deny card or Ops and when are Coup cards appearing makes for a heady mix and exciting and extremely fun gaming experience.

We played the short 1965-67 scenario again and this time my Yanks ran out winners by achieving a -1  Victory Level (ie closet to their Auto win level) on last Coup card.
++Edit++ aha re-reading rules in a 2 player game Victory Conditions are slightly different as both US and ARVN would need to be in 'winning' positions, so it seems either VC or NVA would have won as ARVN were way off the mark (-18 IIRC)
This time round we discovered the use of the highways and rivers (LOCs not present in Colonial Twilight) and need to block/contest them. 

Great game, system and subject matter.

Just a pity these games are so expensive here in UK.