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 adapts familiar mechanics to the conditions of Afghanistan without adding rules complexity. A snap for 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.