Sovereign of Discord: A Fire in the Lake Expansion

Sovereign of Discord: A Fire in the Lake Expansion lets players see how the war evolved from an insurgency between the ARVN and Viet Cong, assisted by the USA and North Vietnam, to the later conventional fighting between North Vietnam and the USA at the start of the base game. New scenarios allow players to extend the game back to 1961, just after the formation of the Viet Cong, or to 1963, during the last tumultuous year of Diem's regime. Players who own the two expansions, Sovereign of Discord and Fall of Saigon, will be able to experience the entire war in Indochina from 1961 to 1975. This allows players to see how the war evolved from the low-intensity insurgency of Diem's period to the huge conventional offensives of the war's final years. A copy of Fire in the Lake will be required to play the Sovereign of Discord expansion.

• The 1961 and 1963 scenarios with a Diem fall sequence allow players to continue playing through the Fire in the Lake campaign scenario (1964-1972), and even up to the Fall of Saigon (1973-1975) if players also own the sequel expansion.
•         New ARVN "strategic hamlet" rooms and mechanisms reflect the Diem regime's strategy of moving the population into fortified villages.
•         The Hanoi and Washington tracks control the number of pieces available and certain capabilities of the Viet Cong and ARVN factions. In addition, instead of owning troops, the US and NVA each use advisor parts, enabling them to upgrade and control the units of their South Vietnamese allies.
•         A regime stability track affects the cost of ARVN operations to model growing urban instability and plots against the Ngo Dinh Diem regime.        A two-player head-to-head scenario uses Brian Train's initiative system from Colonial Twilight for players wishing to focus on the internal conflict between the Viet Cong and the ARVN, and may also be suitable as an introductory scenario for players new to Fire in the Lake.
•         72 new events cover the period from 1961 to 1963, and four new pivotal events represent the debates in Washington and Hanoi over the level of aid, the Hamlets programA single-player system using the card-based non-player game system, similar to those supplied with the Tr'ung Bot Update Pack and Fall of Saigon.
  
  Bonus content for Fire in the Lake:
  
  In addition to expanding Fire in the Lake to the early 1960s, Sovereign of Discord also includes additional bonus content for the base game:
  
  - 40 new events (8 new events from 1964, 16 new events from 1965, 16 new events from 1968) covering themes such as the role of women in war, civilian victimization, the effect of war on South Vietnamese society, North Vietnamese strategies, and the 1964 escalation debate. New events also include a new capability event for each faction.
  - Two new short scenarios:
          - Turning Point (1967 to 1969), covering the period of the fiercest offensives by Communist and allied forces to gain control of the countryside.
          - Long 1964 (mid-1963 to early 1965), covering the period historian Frederick Logevall refers to as the "long 1964", representing the crucial escalation debates in North Vietnam and the USA.