Hue (wargame)

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Hue

Designer	John Hill
Publisher	Simulations Design Corporation Mayfair Games
Players	2
Setup time
Playing time	2 to 3 hours
Rules complexity	Medium
Strategy depth	High
Random chance	Medium
Skills required	Military tactics

Hue is a board wargame first published in 1973 by Simulations Design Corporation in Conflict #6 and again in 1977 as Battle for Hue, and subsequently published by Mayfair Games in 1982 under the one-word title^[1] . It is a Vietnam War-era tactical-level game set in Huế, the capital of Vietnam.

In January and February 1968, the North Vietnamese Army (NVA) and the Viet Cong (VC) battled the 1st Division of the Army of the Republic of Vietnam (ARVN) and elements of the United States Marine Corps (USMC).

In the battle for Huế, a medieval city was attacked with modern weapons. The attackers were armed with fully-automatic weapons but still had to contend with moats and walls, making it "a combination of World War II street fighting and medieval siege warfare", according to the game's introduction.