by Jim Werbaneth, 16 May 2024 ~ #UnboxingDay
Initially designed by Volko Ruhnke for GMT, the COIN series has proven to be one of the most versatile and popular. It focuses on insurgency and counterinsurgency warfare, as the series name indicates. That makes it extensible to a wide range of conflicts; the first installment, Andean Abyss, covers conflict in Columbia between government forces, FARC insurgents, and narcotraficantes. From there, the series has gone on to address such obvious subjects as the Vietnam War, the French war in Algeria, and Afghanistan. Yet it has also been applied to more unusual suspects, including the American Revolution, Caesar’s Gallic War, and King Arthur.
click images to enlarge
All Bridges Burning is, for American audience at least, about one of the less well-known conflicts. This was the Finnish civil war of 1917-1918, between Communist Reds and their conservative White opponents, with local moderates somewhere between. All of this too took place in the context of the Russian Civil War. While using Ruhnke’s system, it is designed by the Finnish designer V.P.J. Arponen.
Thanks for joining this month’s #UnboxingDay with the Armchair Dragoons and we hope you enjoyed a look under our hoods! You can always leave us your feedback in our #UnboxingDay thread, or in the comment area on this article, below.
You can find our regiment’s social media on Mastodon, Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, BlueSky, and even Threads, if we could ever get an auto-post to it.
(We have an Instagram page and it’s really just a placeholder & redirect to our articles.)
You can support The Armchair Dragoons through our Patreon, also, and find us at a variety of conventions and other events.
Feel free to talk back to us either in our discussion forum, or in the comments below.
Want to contribute to next month’s #UnboxingDay? Drop us a line in the #UnboxingDay thread in the forum and let us know
