The period from the Bolshevik Revolution in 1917, to the re-establishment of (very) ‘central’ government in Russia by c.1926, is one that is little understood outside specialist circles, and even today remains prone to an overly neat and tidy ‘hindsight’ view of history.
The reality was very different, and offers wargamers a hugely attractive and diverse backdrop in which to game. Armies from all the world’s major powers intervened at one time or another in Russia and its neighbouring states in Central Asia. Some of them, such as the French intervention in the Ukraine in 1919, were on a major scale. Others were very much like the expeditionary forces organized for the the ‘small wars’ of the previous century.
All of this offers endlessly interesting scenarios and armies for the creative gamer. The predominant style of warfare was open and mobile. You therefore get to play with all the toys of the first quarter of the twentieth century, with none of the tedium of trench warfare as seen on the Western Front.
These rules were a real labour of love for a group of friends and gamers known collectively as ‘The League of Extraordinary Kriegspielers’. We first came together in Turin (where I was working at the time for a well-known drink company), during the blistering hot summer of 2003. Since then we have played thousands of games, and continue to run an on-going campaign that has created a profoundly different set of world outcomes.
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