Brezhnevs War: NATO vs. the Warsaw Pact in Germany, 1980 enables two players to game the first month of a hypothesized communist invasion of Western Europe sometime between the fall of Saigon and the start of the Soviet intervention in Afghanistan.It was during that period the conventional correlation of forces between the two hostile alliances most favored the communists.
The 50 x 35 map covers the core area of the Federal Republic of Germany at 6.66 miles (10.8 km) per hex.There are 352 large-size (5/8) unit counters, representing the divisions and brigades immediately on scene at the time, along with the masses of other units that couldve been sent as reinforcements. Each of the 10 game turns represent three days of real time.
The turn sequence uses the classic fight-move or move-fight structure. Special rules account for heliborne units, Spetsnaz, the ultra-elite Soviet Eighth Guards and Guards Airborne Armies, East German and Czechoslovakian disloyalty, ranged Soviet artillery divisions, air power, supply, the criticality of Frankfurt for US operations, paradrops, German territorials, electronic warfare and variable Soviet victory objectives.
The overall system is simple, at about 6 on the 1-10 scale. Two experienced players can get through a match in about four to six hours.
