1920 Nest Of Eagles

1920 is a two-player, intermediate complexity, strategic-level wargame simulation of the “Polish-Soviet War”, the Soviet attempt to conquer Poland. Soviet and Polish forces engulf each other in swift campaigns, fighting on a large area stretching from Kiev and Smolensk in the East to Warsaw and Thorn in the West. Will the Red Army prevail and bring happiness and peace to the German and French working classes or will the Poles pull off a magnificent victory one can only describe as a ‘miracle’? It only needs two players to find out an answer to this question in this exciting 2 hour wargame.

Players can learn the game via four short scenarios, being gradually introduced to the game mechanics and quickly able to grasp the accurate concept of lines of control, surprising rail transfers and morale advantages, and understand the strategic ramifications of the theatre of war. Further rules cover army morale advantages, revolutionary mobilisation organised by the hated Soviet political police the Cheka, the torn loyalties of the Ukrainians, fighting on both sides of the fron,t and the formation of the Polish Volunteer Army.

A plethora of formations and units appear in the game: the Latvian Rifles, the dreaded Budyenny’s Horse Army, counter-revolutionary Russian, Belorussian and Cossack troops, various Polish formations including the Siberian Brigade, support units such as tanks, flotillas, armoured cars and – above all – armoured trains, which were extensively used in the campaign.