A Distant Plain (4th Printing) (Preorder)

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This volume in Volko Ruhnke's COIN Series takes 1 to 4 players into the Afghan conflict of today's headlines, this time in a unique collaboration between two top designers of boardgames on modern irregular warfare. A Distant Plain teams Volko Ruhnke, the award-winning designer of Labyrinth: The War on Terror, with Brian Train, a designer with 20 years' experience creating influential simulations such as Algeria, Somalia Interventions, Shining Path: The Struggle for Peru, and many others.

A Distant Plain features the same accessible game system as GMT's Andean Abyss and Cuba Libre but with new factions, capabilities, events, and objectives. For the first time in the Series, two counterinsurgent (COIN) factions must reconcile competing visions for Afghanistan in order to coordinate a campaign against a dangerous twin insurgency.

A Distant Plain adapts familiar Andean Abyss mechanics to the conditions of Afghanistan without adding rules complexity. A snap for Series: COIN (GMT) players to learn, A Distant Plain will transport them to a different place and time.

New features include:
 • Coalition-Government joint operations
 • Volatile Pakistani posture toward the conflict
 • Evolution of both COIN and insurgent tactics and technology
 • Government graft and desertion
 • Coalition casualties
 • Returning Afghan refugees
 • Pashtun ethnic terrain
 • Multiple scenarios
 • A deck of 72 fresh events
 • . . . and more.

As with each COIN Series volume, players of A Distant Plain will face difficult strategic decisions with each card. The innovative game system smoothly integrates political, cultural, and economic affairs with military and other violent and non-violent operations and capabilities. Flow charts are at hand to run the three Afghan factions, so that 1-4 players can experience the internecine brawl that is today's Afghanistan.

Note: The 4th Printing is identical to the 3rd Printing, with any known errata corrected.

Contents:
1 Mounted Map (22 x 34in)
177 Wooden Pieces (many embossed)
78 Playing Cards
1 Full-Color Countersheet
1 Rules Booklet
1 Play Booklet
8 Player Aid Cards
3 Six-Sided Dice

Ages: 12+
Players: 1-4
Game Length: 180-300 minutes