Cam Ranh Port is the most open map of the lot, and one where driving is often a better shout than running. If you'd rather fight from a tank than jog between points, this is your map.

Gameplay & Strategies

Base Camp sits in the middle, where the key roads meet, and it's where the match gets decided. A big bay cuts into the southern shore, so you can't just run the waterfront from the docks in the west across to the port in the east. You get funnelled inland instead, almost straight through the town, past whoever is holding it.

Everywhere else, you're flipping between cover and no cover. Scrub and tree lines break the ground up across both halves, but the north and the middle are bare sand and low ridges where you'll be seen coming. Inside the streets, it inverts completely: you can't see past the next building, fights happen a few metres in front of you, and numbers matter more than where you're standing. Head east and it opens back up around Dry Creek Bed, flat and empty enough to let armour do its job.

History

Cam Ranh Bay is one of the finest natural harbours in Asia, and that single fact explains everything that's happened there. It sits on Vietnam's south-central coast, deep enough for the largest warships, wide enough for a fleet, and sheltered by a long peninsula that keeps the weather out. For most of the last century, whoever was fighting in this part of the world eventually ended up wanting Cam Ranh.

The Russian Baltic Fleet anchored there in 1905, resupplying on its long voyage east, only to be destroyed at Tsushima. The Japanese used it in 1941 to stage the invasion of Malaya. Long before the Americans showed up, it was already a place where fleets stopped on the way to somewhere worse.

It was handed over to South Vietnamese forces in 1972 and fell to the North in April 1975, in the last weeks of the war. The Soviets took over it in 1979 and ran it as their biggest naval base outside the Warsaw Pact for more than 20 years. Today it's a big Vietnamese naval facility, with an international airport next door flying holidaymakers about the region.