Vietcong: Fist Alpha

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Vietcong: Fist Alpha
Developer(s)	Pterodon Illusion Softworks
Distributor(s)	Gathering of Developers
Engine	Ptero-Engine II
Platform(s)	PC (Windows)
Release date	February 2004 (Windows)
Genre(s)	Tactical shooter
Mode(s)	Singleplayer, Multiplayer
Media	CD-ROM

Vietcong: Fist Alpha is an expansion pack for the computer game Vietcong. It was released in February 2004.

It is a prequel to Vietcong, occurring three months before the events of that game. In Fist Alpha you play the main character of Sergeant First Class Douglas Warren. All the members of the team from the original Vietcong are present initially except for Le Duy Nhut (Nick). The team's pointman and translator is Vietnamese Sergeant Nham Nguyen. He is killed in action during the attack on the Nui Pek base camp on 15 May 1967 and then he is replaced by Nhut.

The fate of SFC Douglas Warren is mentioned at the end of the game in a paragraph, but it is also mentioned in the Arrival mission on 27 June 1967 from the original Vietcong. As his replacement; Steve R. Hawkins is being airlifted into Nui Pek base, C.J. Hornster talks about the circumstances which led to Douglas's death. He was killed in action by a single AK-47 shot to the head during a night ambush at a village where the Vietcong had been stealing rice from the local villagers. This is in slight controversy with the ending text in Fist Alpha, which states that Douglas was actually shot by a vietcong sniper from behind. Enemy snipers in Vietcong usually use Dragunov SVD or Mosin Nagant rifles, not AK-47's.

Vietcong: Fist Alpha Single Player Campaign Missions

Mission One - 1 March 1967

• Prologue
• Thunder Over The Jungle

Mission Two - 17 March 1967

• Day In Pleiku
• Operation Golden Gift
• Hanging Bridge

Mission Three - 27 April 1967

• Day On Nui Pek
• Operation Pandora's Box

Mission Four - 15 May 1967

• Night Guard
• Nui Pek Under Attack

Mission Five - 16 May 1967

• Nui Pek After Attack
• Operation Fist Alpha
• Death Valley
• Field Gun Battery
• Burn The Jungle

Weapons In Vietcong: Fist Alpha

The expansion introduced Bayonets to many of the games original weapons (noted below and here). In addition to this, a few side specific weapons were also added:

United States / South Vietnam

• M21 Sniper Weapon System (Cannot be fitted with a bayonet in game, unlike its real life counterpart)
• Sten Mk.IIS (silenced version)

North Vietnamese

• Å korpion vz. 61
• SVT-40 + (SVT-40 With Optics) (Actually an AVT-40) (Cannot be fitted with a bayonet in game, unlike its real life counterpart)
• Degtyarev DP

Maps In Vietcong: Fist Alpha

Vietcong: Fist Alpha added a number of maps, to play in the quick fight mode, and to play on numerous multiplayer modes. Many of them use the setting of the missions of the single player campaign.

• Bridge
• Cambodia
• Death Valley
• Hamburger Hill
• Indian Country
• Jarai
• Moorland
• Nui Pek
• Old Temple
• Thundercreek
• Three Canyons