Purple Haze

Description

--- **Purple Haze** is an immersive story-creation tactical campaign wargame for 1-4 players set in Vietnam 1967, where leadership choices shape narratives and survival. Key mechanics include: - *Story-creation* Player decisions craft immersive narratives amid gut-wrenching choices in war-torn environments. - *Tactical wargaming* Squad-level tactics determine outcomes of life-and-death firefights in jungles, paddies, and villages. - *Campaign progression* Marines suffer losses, with survivors gaining wisdom and toughness across missions. - *Squad leadership* Command fresh recruits through crashes, pursuits, and combat to complete objectives. - *Survival focus* Balance mission success with getting the squad out alive against encroaching VC threats. Purple Haze immerses 1-4 players as U.S. Marine squad leaders in 1967 Vietnam, starting from a crashed Huey amid lost comrades and incoming VC. Players navigate dense jungles, flooded rice paddies, and straw-thatched villages, facing gut-wrenching choices that forge the story. As a hybrid of story-creation, tactical-level wargame, and campaign system, decisions drive narrative paths while tactics resolve brutal firefights. Squad members endure hardship—some perish, others toughen and wise up—culminating in the core goal of mission completion and survival. ---