Viet Cong

The Viet Cong (Việt Cộng) or National Front for the Liberation of South Vietnam is a paramilitary faction that appears in Call of Duty: Black Ops. American soldiers referred to the Viet Cong as Victor Charlie or VC. "Victor" and "Charlie" are both letters in the NATO phonetic alphabet. "Charlie" referred to communist forces in general, both Viet Cong and the North Vietnamese Army. As a guerrilla force consisting of Communist sympathizers, the Viet Cong should not be confused with the NVA, the regular army of North Vietnam.

The Viet Cong demonstrate less proficiency with combat than their more trained counterparts. This is evident in their fighting strategies, often spraying bullets from behind cover in a style similar to the Militia, although they are still deadly in numbers (Such as "Payback"). Their style of attack resembles the Banzai Charge of the Imperial Japanese Army because they sometimes run straight to the player and melee him. They even have a machete on some occasions.

In Call of Duty: Black Ops, it is implied that the Viet Cong have a strong relationship with the Soviet Union, particularly working with Spetsnaz units.

Call of Duty: Black Ops
In Call of Duty: Black Ops, the Viet Cong are seen in three levels: "Victor Charlie", "Crash Site", and "Payback". They do not have formal military uniforms because they are guerrilla fighters. They only tied a piece of red rope on their left arm to distinguish themselves from the others (i.e. civilians). They are commonly seen wearing green pith helmets with leaves for camouflage and head protection, or bandannas, flannel work outfits, or they are shirtless leaving them susceptible to chest shots, and wear sandals, which expose feet and toes to shots and the muddy environment. By these descriptions, it can be seen that they have risky and crude "uniforms." By not wearing body armor of any kind, as well as (usually) no head protection, it would be safe to assume they are easy to take down, but they are no easier than any other "standard" enemies. On very rare occasions they are wearing something that looks like an improvised ghillie suit.

In "Victor Charlie", the player explores the tunnels used by the Viet Cong, with Alex Mason and Swift acting as tunnel rats. The Viet Cong fighters attempt to ambush and intercept the Americans along the way. In "Payback", the Viet Cong forces American prisoners to play Russian roulette, with a bookie taking bets on who dies first.

They also appear as zombies in the map Shangri-la.

Call of Duty: Black Ops (DS)
The Viet Cong appear in the level "Welcome To The Jungle", "Light it up!", "River Raiders", and "Last Heli Out". They also appear as zombies in the map The Temple.

Weapons
The Viet Cong appear to have a more variety of weapons than their North Vietnamese counterparts due to their closer relation to Dragovich and Kravchenko, who presumably supply them with Russian-made weapons.


 * AK-47
 * RPK
 * RPG-7
 * Knife
 * Makarov
 * Olympia
 * Skorpion
 * AK-74u
 * KS-23
 * Dragunov
 * Machete

Trivia

 * There are sometimes character models for the Viet Cong exclusive to certain scenes, such as the sleeping Viet Cong guards in Victor Charlie, who's models never appear in normal fighting through out the campaign. Another model for the Viet Cong are the ones in Payback during the Russian Roulette scene, where there is a Viet Cong that is bald, and has no webbing of any sort. He also looks somewhat more slender than other Viet Cong.
 * The Scavenger and Ghost perk for the NVA in multiplayer strongly resemble some of the Viet Congs character models seen in single player.
 * In the level Victor Charlie, the Viet Cong fight in a similar fashion to that of the Militia from Modern Warfare 2, due to the fact they tend to fight the player in large numbers, spray bullets, ambush and and other times run straight into fire, and at times shoot RPGs from rooftops.
 * Also like the Militia, the Viet Cong are not an actual army but are an organization of armed civilians, the difference being that the Viet Cong are an actual historical armed force, where as the Brazilian Militia are fictional.
 * They are not a playable faction in multiplayer, the NVA are instead featured in all Vietnam based multiplayer maps; however their flag can be seen in one of the huts in the multiplayer map Jungle and also design elements from their character models were given to that of the NVA in multiplayer.
 * Its possible that they were meant to be featured as a multiplayer faction due to the fact that their flag is seen in the map Jungle, also because there were many other early concept maps that took place in Vietnam but were canceled, (many of them jungle based), it is possible that they were taken out to even out the number of American and non American factions.
 * The Viet Cong seem to bare similar fighting tactics to enemy factions from other COD games, as they fight similar to the the Brazillian Militia in the level Victor Charlie and the Imperial Japanese Army in Crash Site.
 * Some of the zombie models from the map Shangri-La are borrowed from the Viet Cong, particularly the Shrieker Zombie, and the zombies in green clothing.
 * Despite being used by the Viet Cong during the Vietnam War, the Punji Stakes never made an appearance in the Campaign or Multiplayer of Black Ops, instead, appearing in the zombie map Shangri La.
 * One anachronism of the Viet Cong is the usage of the Skorpion and the Olympia, which were never used during the war.

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