Your Father has provided a country large enough for all of you, and he advises you to remove to it. There your white brothers will not trouble you; they will have no claim to the land, and you can live upon it, you and all your children, as long as the grass grows or the water runs, in peace and plenty. It will be yours forever.

President Andrew Jackson

As Long as the Grass Grows is a board game that adapts the COIN Series developed by GMT Games to depict the Conquest of the American West from 1845 to 1881. Players use Events, Commands and Special Abilities to build and move pieces on the map to achieve their victory conditions. The players take the roles of four Factions; the Great Plains Tribal Faction (GP) consisting of the Comanche and their Kiowa allies; and the Dakota, Lakota, Yankton, and Yanktonai Sioux with their Arapaho, Blackfoot, Cheyenne, and Cree allies. The Northwestern Tribal Faction (NW) has the Chinook, Modoc, Nez Perce, Rogues, Umatilla, Yakima of the Pacific Northwest; the Yaqui of Mexico; the Navajo enemies of the Apaches; and the Crow, Flathead, and Pawnee enemies of the Sioux. The Southwestern Tribal Faction (SW) has the Chiricahua, Lipan, Mescalero and Western Apaches, their Mojave and Yuma allies, and the Bannock, Paiute, Shoshone, and Ute Tribes of the Great Basin. The United States Faction (US) includes the federal, state and territorial governments; the US Army; and militia, miners, pioneers, settlers, buffalo hunters, and railroad companies.

At the start of each turn a President card is drawn and resolved and players draw cards, make agreements and relocate units. Players then play their cards in turn to play Events or use their Action Points to activate their pieces so they may move, raid and fight.

Includes

Scenarios for 1845-57, 1857-69 and 1869-81, which can be combined into campaign scenarios. Two player alternate history game with no US player. 110 Event cards including Generals, Chiefs, Pioneers, Gold Rushes, and Epidemics. 11 President Cards representing every president from 1845 to 1881, including assassination and re-election, reflecting the policy of their administration. Buffalo, Massacre, Peace Chief and War Chief markers. California, Oregon, Bozeman, and Old Spanish Trails allow rapid movement across the continent, which may be raided by local tribes, and upgraded to railroads. War Track showing the effects of the Mexican War, Mormon War and American Civil War. Control of territories by the British, Mexicans, Mormons, Texans, CSA, US, and Tribes. Variable victory conditions, increasing for the US and decreasing for Tribal Factions as the game proceeds.

—description from the designer