Revolt in the East is a corps/army level simulation of the consequences of a possible revolt of the Warsaw Pact member nations and of the reactions of the Soviet Union and of the NATO allies. Also included in Revolt in the East are Scenarios dealing with the Hungarian Revolution of 1956 and of the Soviet invasion of Czechoslovakia in 1968.

     The core of the game is the Warsaw Pact Revolt Table. It represents our “guesstimate of a chain-reaction revolt of the East-bloc, given that a revolt arises in one of those nations in the first place. /the system is biased to produce an East German revolt, which draws in NATO. This is, in fact, the “worst case” from a Soviet viewpoint: a rebellion that produces a re-unified Germany.

 

Scenarios:

• Standard Scenario: Revolt in the East, 197?
• Yugoslavian Revolution Scenario
• Czechoslovakia Resists, 1968
• Hungarian Revolt Scenario, Seven Days of Freedom, 1956

 

Contents include: 

• Rules (8pp originally bound in)  
• 17" X 22"   map of Eastern Europe 
• 100 die cut counters

• Each game turn is the equivalent of one week of real time 
• Each hex represents 56 kilometers across 
• Counters represent actual military forces that could participate in such a campaign.
• The NATO and Austrian ground units are corps
• The Soviet and other, neutral ground units are armies
• Soviet airborne units are corps as are the air force units on both sides
• Designed by: James F. Dunnigan
• Developed by Christopher Allen, Redmond A. Simonsen

 

Revolt in the East: Warsaw Pact Rebellion in the 1970's (Historical article by David C. Isby.  Includes:  The Soviet Army; A street Fighters guide to eastern Europe; The Logistics of a Revolt in the East and Full order of battle for every individual country both NATO and Warsaw Pact)

Firefight: US and Soviet Small Unit Tactics (Historical Article by Stephen B. Patrick. Includes: US and Soviet Offensive and Defensive Doctrine
Charts: US Tank Battalion; US Mechanized Infantry Battalion; USSR Tank regiment; USSR Motorized rifle regiment
Sub Article: Does it Work?)

Angola: Portugal in Africa (Historical article by Jim Dingeman. Includes: Towards Civil War: April-December 1974; “All we need is Fifty Men”: January-August 1975; Superpower Escalation: October 1975-February 1976; Peace or War in Southern Angola
Map: Angola Terrain Analysis on as Simulation game grid
Sub-Article: Actors and Goals in the Angolan Civil War)

Simulation: Revolt in the East: Warsaw Pact (by Irad B. Hardy and Redmond A. Simonsen)

For Your Eyes Only (A Series of short articles on the current state of military affairs and technology - Includes: New soviet Missiles and Attack Helicopters; Military Airlift Command; Origins of the Mig-21; The A-10; Tank Prototype Competition; Circular Error Probabilities; Cruise Missile Components; Death Ray Developments; Chinese Ballistic Missiles; US Tank Crew Training; Israeli Pilot Training; Re-Targeting ICBM's)

 

Briefings: (Mini reviews of Recently Published Wargames: English Civil War (Ironside Games); Brandy Station (Rand Games); Waterloo Campaign, Tsushima and Port Arthur (all by GDW)
Micro reviews of Selected Non-War Games: Hi*Politix (JRA Fun Group); Everybody wants to be President (Lehigh Ct. Branch Pa/ Assoc. for the Blind); President (Educational Games); Dungeon (TSR); Pocket Calculator game book (Morrow)
Selected books for the history gamer.