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The Guerrilla Generation
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The Guerrilla Generation: Cold War Insurgencies in Latin America is the second COIN multipack, containing four separate games exploring a series of thematically related insurgencies. Building on the The British Way, this new multipack allows players to explore variations in insurgent groups’ organizational structures, strategies, and relationship with civilians, across four insurgencies in Central and South America between 1968 and 1992. During this part of the Cold War era, Latin America experienced an incredible number of different insurgent groups, many inspired by the Cuban Revolution featured in Cuba Libre, ranging from popular backed rural insurgencies, flexible urban guerrillas, externally sponsored raiders, and brutal ideologically rigid groups. This multipack features a game exemplifying each of these types of insurgencies, to offer players the chance to compare different approaches to rebellion highlighted in the quote by scholar Jeremy Weinstein above. The Guerrilla Generation also offers four longer and more complex individual games than those found in The British Way, as well as an entirely different approach to the linked campaign scenario, which combines two games into a simultaneous side-by-side experience.

Highlights:

Four full games in one box: Explore four different conflicts set during the height of Cold War Latin America between 1968 and 1992. Each game uses a unique ruleset building on the same general mechanical structure, ensuring that they are easy to pick up while still offering a distinctive experience.
An extension of the COIN multipack approach with a higher level of complexity than the games in The British Way, introducing new changes to the core system.
Unique mechanisms reflecting the different attributes of each insurgency: exposing atrocities with Radio Venceremos in El Salvador, managing US Aid in Nicaragua, the hunt for Guzmán in Peru, and kidnapping officials to the People’s Prison in Uruguay.
Small board footprint with quick-but-deep gameplay: Each game plays in under 2 hours and takes place on a single 17” x 22” board.
A “Resisting Reagan” Campaign: A linked campaign scenario allowing up to 4 players to play El Salvador and Nicaragua side-by-side, with new mechanisms to represent the Central American peace and solidarity movement’s efforts to resist the Reagan Administration’s aid to both the Salvadoran government and the Contra insurgency, by influencing Congress and American public opinion.

The Guerrilla Generation is first and foremost designed to provide an educational experience on the specific conflicts in the pack and to push players to think more broadly about variation in how insurgent groups operate. The design of the games required extensive research utilizing works by historians, political scientists, area specialists, human rights reports, and local accounts to best capture the strategies of the armed actors in each conflict and their effects on the local population. Armed actors, represented by roles taken on by players, often adopted strategies of intentionally targeting civilians to coerce them to their side or weaken the opposing armed group. The Salvadoran military used scorched earth tactics and systematic bombing of guerrilla zones, as described in the quote above. The military in Uruguay utilized extensive torture to crush the Tupamaros before going on to crush the democracy itself. Insurgents such as the Contras and Shining Path deliberately terrorized civilians to advance their goals. Engaging in an interactive exploration of these strategies can be deeply uncomfortable; however, I would argue that interacting with these strategies is central to understanding the conduct of both these specific historical conflicts and unfortunately many contemporary ones. More importantly, I hope the games are useful for illustrating why many of these unethical strategies struggle to “work” as the armed actors intended, often even backfiring. I would encourage players to engage seriously with the games and the conflicts that they depict and to think carefully about the historical analogs of their actions while they play.

Components:

Two double-sided 17” x 22” mounted game boards
Four Game Event Decks
One Campaign Event Deck
131 wooden pieces
16 pawns
One and a half full-color countersheets
12 double-sided player aids
Four double-sided player mats
Three 6-sided dice
Four combined Rule/Background Booklets
One combined Playbook/Campaign Guide

Players: 2 (up to 4 in the campaign game)

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