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 Weapons

• Knife
• Colt M1911A1
• .38 Revolver
• Smith & Wesson Model.39 "Hush Puppy"
• M1 Carbine (Bayonet can be attached on Fist Alpha expansion pack)
• M1D Garand
• Winchester Model 70 Rifle
• M1A1 Thompson
• M3A1 "Grease Gun"
• M16 (Bayonet can be attached on Fist Alpha expansion pack)
• Remington 870 Shotgun
• M60 GPMG (General Purpose Machine Gun)
• M79 (Only available in single player mode)
• M67 Hand Grenade
• M18A1 Claymore AP (Anti-Personnel) Mine
• Browning M2HB .50 caliber Machine Gun (Mounted on UH-1 Huey helicopters)

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• M14 + (M14 With Optics)(Cannot be fitted with a bayonet in game, unlike its real life counterpart.)
• Sten Mk.IIS (silenced version)

Viet Cong / North Vietnam Weapons

• Knife
• Makarov PM
• TT-33
• .38 Revolver
• SKS Simonov (Bayonet can be attached on Fist Alpha expansion pack)
• Dragunov SVD (Bayonet can be attached on Fist Alpha expansion pack)
• Mosin Nagant (Cannot be fitted with a bayonet in Fist Alpha expansion pack, unlike its real life counterpart)
• PPSh-41
• PPS-43
• AK-47 (Bayonet can be attached on Fist Alpha expansion pack)
• Baikal IZH-43
• RPD Degtarev
• Stick Hand Grenade
• Booby Trap (Grenade)

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• Škorpion 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

External links

• Pterodon and Vietcong official site
• Official Forum
• Vietnam Elite Teamwork - Cooperative fan site
• AusCong - Australian - Fan Site