1 - 4 players | |
average 240 minutes | |
|
|
Published in 2013 | |
View Global Stats | |
View on boardgamegeek.com | |
Wargame Modern Warfare | |
Area Control / Area Influence Dice Rolling Variable Player Powers Area Movement Variable Phase Order |
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 recent Andean Abyss and upcoming 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 GMT COIN Series 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 any number of players—from solitaire to 4—can experience the internecine brawl that is today's Afghanistan.
Total Games Played: | 2 |
Average Players Per Game | 4 |
Badges | Name | NemePoints | Total Games | Avg. NemePoints | Wins / Losses | % Won |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Calvin Le Huray | 130 | 2 | 65.00 |
|
100 % | |
Neill Stoddart | 84 | 2 | 42.00 |
|
50 % | |
Mark Young | 78 | 1 | 78.00 |
|
100 % | |
Colin Le Marquand | 52 | 1 | 52.00 |
|
100 % | |
Shaun Gell | 52 | 1 | 52.00 |
|
100 % | |
Glen Kehoe | 32 | 1 | 32.00 |
|
0 % |
Date Played | Result | |
---|---|---|
7/28/2016 |
1st
Mark Young
78
1st
Calvin Le Huray
78
2nd
Glen Kehoe
32
2nd
Neill Stoddart
32
|
|
7/27/2016 |
52
|