The Guerrilla Generation: Cold War Insurgencies in Latin America

About this board game

The Guerrilla Generation: Cold War Insurgencies in Latin America is a COIN multipack for 1–4 players, with an approximate play time of 120 minutes. It contains four separate games examining thematically related insurgencies across Central and South America.

Set during the Cold War, these games explore conflicts in Uruguay, Nicaragua, El Salvador, and Peru. Together, they cover the years from 1968 to 1992 and invite players to compare how different insurgent groups organized themselves, pursued their strategies, and interacted with civilians.

The multipack presents a range of approaches to rebellion. Its four games include examples of popular-backed rural insurgencies, flexible urban guerrillas, externally sponsored raiders, and brutal, ideologically rigid groups. This variety makes the collection a study in contrasts, showing how insurgencies could differ across both their methods and their relationships with the societies around them.

• Uruguay: 1968–1972
• Nicaragua: 1979–1990
• El Salvador: 1979–1992
• Peru: 1980–1992

Several of these conflicts connect to the wider history of the COIN series, including insurgent movements inspired by the Cuban Revolution featured in Cuba Libre. The result is a multipack designed not only to portray four conflicts, but also to encourage direct comparison between different paths to rebellion.

The Nicaragua and El Salvador games can be combined in a linked campaign scenario. This format creates a simultaneous, side-by-side experience, adding another way to explore the relationships between these two conflicts. The Guerrilla Generation offers a focused collection of Cold War insurgency games in one Latin American setting.