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MacGowan, Chechu Nieto\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"info-item\" style=\"display: flex;\"\u003e\n\u003clabel style=\"margin-right: 0.5rem;\"\u003ePublisher: \u003c\/label\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003eGMT Games\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"info-item\" style=\"display: flex;\"\u003e\n\u003clabel style=\"margin-right: 0.5rem;\"\u003eNumber of players: \u003c\/label\u003e1 to 4\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"info-item\" style=\"display: flex;\"\u003e\n\u003clabel style=\"margin-right: 0.5rem;\"\u003eAge: \u003c\/label\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e12 years and over\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"info-item\" style=\"display: flex;\"\u003e\n\u003clabel style=\"margin-right: 0.5rem;\"\u003eDuration: \u003c\/label\u003e180 to 300 minutes\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv style=\"display: flex;\" class=\"info-item\"\u003e\n\u003clabel style=\"margin-right: 0.5rem;\"\u003eLinks: \u003c\/label\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/boardgamegeek.com\/boardgame\/127518\/a-distant-plain\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\"\u003eBoardGameGeek (English)\u003c\/a\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"info-item\" style=\"display: flex;\"\u003e\n\u003clabel style=\"margin-right: 0.5rem;\"\u003eCategories: \u003c\/label\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003eModern Warfare, Wargaming\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"info-item\" style=\"display: flex;\"\u003e\n\u003clabel style=\"margin-right: 0.5rem;\"\u003eMechanics: \u003c\/label\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003eArea Majority \/ Influence, Area Movement, Dice Rolling, Solo \/ Solitaire Game, Variable Phase Order, Variable Player Powers\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"description rte small-description small-description-section collapsable-description\" itemprop=\"description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThis volume in Volko Ruhnke's COIN series takes 1-4 players into today's headline-grabbing Afghan conflict, this time in a unique collaboration between two leading board game designers about modern irregular warfare. A Distant Plain teams up Volko Ruhnke, the award-winning designer of Labyrinth: The War on Terror, Brian Train, a designer with 20 years of experience creating influential simulations such as Algeria, Interventions in Somalia, Shining Path: The Fight for Peru, and many others.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eA Distant Plain features the same accessible gameplay system as GMT's recent Andin Abyss and upcoming Cuba Libre, but with new factions, abilities, events, and objectives. For the first time in the series, two counter-insurgent (COIN) factions must reconcile competing visions for Afghanistan to coordinate a campaign against a dangerous twin insurgency.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eA Distant Plain adapts the well-known mechanics of the Andean Abyss to the conditions of Afghanistan without adding rule complexity. A breeze for players in the GMT COIN series: A Distant Plain will transport them to another place and time. Among the New Products, we find:\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eJoint Coalition-Government operations.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003ePakistan's volatile posture in the face of the conflict.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eEvolution of both COIN and insurgent tactics and technologies.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eGovernment corruption and desertion.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eCoalition losses.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eReturning Afghan refugees.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003ePashtun ethnic land.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eSeveral scenarios.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eA pack of 72 cool events.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e...and more.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAs with every volume in the COIN series, players of A Distant Plain will have to make difficult strategic decisions with each map. This innovative gaming system seamlessly integrates political, cultural and economic affairs with military and other violent and non-violent operations and capabilities. 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