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The British Way: Counterinsurgency at the End of Empire

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2023 · 2-2 players · 120min · weight 3.11 · 621 ratings

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ID
342921
Name
The British Way: Counterinsurgency at the End of Empire
Year
2023
Rank
3258
Min players
2
Max players
2
Playing time
120
Min playtime
60
Max playtime
120
Avg weight
3.1143
Num weights
35
Bayes avg
5.98471
Average
7.90865
Users rated
621
Num owned
1644
Wanting
164
Wishing
638
Num comments
211
Fetched at
Sat May 02 2026 15:55:12 GMT+0000 (Coordinated Universal Time)
Mechanisms (7)
Action / EventArea Majority / InfluenceArea MovementDice RollingSimulationSudden Death EndingVariable Player Powers
Categories (3)
Modern WarfarePoliticalWargame
Description (1027 chars)

The British Way: Counterinsurgency at the End of Empire is the first of several COIN multipacks, containing four separate wargames exploring a series of thematically related insurgencies. Between 1945 and 1960, the British fought four major “emergencies”, as they referred to their counterinsurgency campaigns, each trying to manage their retreat from empire. The four games in this pack focus on exploring British counterinsurgent responses to a variety of different opponents, including: Communist insurgents in Malaya Militant nationalists in Kenya Clandestine terrorist organizations in Palestine and Cyprus The games adjust the core COIN mechanics to provide a new way of handling two-player conflicts, while also streamlining several mechanics to quicken gameplay. The British Way offers an approachable introduction to the COIN series for new players, while presenting experienced players with four mechanically distinct games to explore and compare. —description from the publisher

LLM v2 (wide)

Not yet enriched at v2 (wide pass).

LLM v3 (deep)

Not yet enriched at v3 (deep pass).

LLM v4 wide (controlled-vocab primitives)

Not yet enriched at v4 (wide pass).

LLM v4 deep (archetype fit)

Not in the v4 deep-pass top-20% slice.