Gunfight in the Valley of Tears, Oct. 9, 1973 is a board game

Board game

A board game is a game which involves counters or pieces being moved on a pre-marked surface or "board", according to a set of rules. Games may be based on pure strategy, chance or a mixture of the two, and usually have a goal which a player aims to achieve...

 simulating tactical level ground combat between Israel

Israel

The State of Israel is a parliamentary republic located in the Middle East, along the eastern shore of the Mediterranean Sea...

 and Syria

Syria

Syria , officially the Syrian Arab Republic , is a country in Western Asia, bordering Lebanon and the Mediterranean Sea to the West, Turkey to the north, Iraq to the east, Jordan to the south, and Israel to the southwest....

 on the Golan Heights during the 1973 Arab-Israeli War. The product is intended as a simple game suitable for novices.

Perry Moore in 2003

2003 in games

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 issued Gunfight in the Valley of Tears in a plastic sleeve with a paper map and unmounted and uncut counters

Counter (board wargames)

Boardgame counters are usually small cardboard squares moved around on the map of a wargame to represent armies, military units or individual military personnel. The first modern mass-market wargame, based on cardboard counters and hex-board maps, was Tactics, invented by Charles S. Roberts in 1952...

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Components

480 unmounted and uncut counters representing Israeli and Syrian units and informational pieces; a 11" by 17" hexagon-patterned map, a rulebook, and players' aid sheets. The game requires but does not include a ten-sided die.

Sources

• Elusive Victory: The Arab-Israeli Wars, 1947-1974, by Trevor N. Dupuy
  Trevor N. Dupuy
  Trevor Nevitt Dupuy was a Colonel, United States Army, retired, soldier and noted military historian.-Biography:Born in New York, the son of noted military historian, R. Ernest Dupuy, Trevor followed in his father's footsteps. Trevor Dupuy attended West Point, graduating in the class of 1938....
  
  , Harper and Row, New York, 1978
• Arabs at War: Military Effectiveness 1948-1991, by Kenneth M. Pollack, University of Nebraska Press, Lincoln, Nebraska, 2002