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Title: COIN games as team events (How-to)
Post by: bayonetbrant on September 12, 2020, 09:54:21 AM

https://www.armchairdragoons.com/feature/team-coin-wargaming-a-how-to-primer/

Title: Re: COIN games as team events (How-to)
Post by: BanzaiCat on September 13, 2020, 01:04:11 AM

 :bigthumb:

Title: Re: COIN games as team events (How-to)
Post by: Tolstoi on September 18, 2020, 11:52:25 AM

Quote from: bayonetbrant on September 12, 2020, 09:54:21 AM

https://www.armchairdragoons.com/feature/team-coin-wargaming-a-how-to-primer/

Don't some folks here at ACD think COIN games aren't wargames?  :whistle:

<runs for cover>

Title: Re: COIN games as team events (How-to)
Post by: bayonetbrant on September 18, 2020, 12:19:42 PM

Quote from: Tolstoi on September 18, 2020, 11:52:25 AM

Don't some folks here at ACD think COIN games aren't wargames?  :whistle:

1. they're wrong

2. we're the Regiment of Strategy Gaming  ;D

Title: Re: COIN games as team events (How-to)
Post by: bbmike on September 19, 2020, 08:19:02 PM

From BGG:

Interview: Volko Ruhnke, Creator of the COIN series (https://www.boardgamegeek.com/blogpost/108842/interview-volko-ruhnke-creator-coin-series)

Title: Re: COIN games as team events (How-to)
Post by: GriffinTwoSix on September 22, 2020, 07:51:01 AM

This seems like a fun way to play.  I got the chance to try Distant Plain a couple times with a mix of military/non-military gamers, expected to like it but was a bit turned off by the abstractness if that's the right word. Didn't help that we had a player in that group with extreme analysis paralysis, and a bit of trouble with the rules.  Regardless it's an interesting game, and definitely fills a niche.  Would still like to try Falling Sky sometime, or maybe even Distant Plain again but with a more serious group.