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I have a messy relationship with GMT’s Counter Insurgency (COIN) series. I have enjoyed my plays of COIN games, but I also rarely want to immediately jump back in and play a given game again. This is fine for my day-to-day life, where if I play two of these games in a year that’s a lot, but it is a challenge if I’m hoping to write a review of one. COIN games are fiercely asymmetric, so to get a fu

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