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From a ragtag group of volunteers create the powerful Red Army, using all the weaponry and equipment at your disposal: planes, tanks, armoured trains, Cheka troops and the Konarmia (the famous Red Cavalry). Or, on the opposite side, gather all patriots and reform the elite divisions that shall save Holy Mother Russia. Can you succeed in crushing the Bolshevik hydra? Or will the People's Revolution prevail?

Several sides are playable: Trotsky’s Red Army, Denikin’s white counter-revolutionary forces of Southern Russia, Kolchak’s Siberians, Finnish from both sides, or the newly independent Polish troops led by Marshal Piłsudski.

The game uses the AGE engine, famous from AGEOD's American Civil War and Rise of Prussia, renown and awarded wargames.

This sounds like awesome totally unplayable trash.

Elemental thread is one down from here.

This sounds like awesome totally unplayable trash.

I wholeheartedly approve - I will play the shit out of this.

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(translation: if you mess this up, Mom will kick your ass with bayonets)

I've always thought the Russian Civil War was wacky and chaotic enough to make a great strategy game. Not sure this one is it, though. A true civil war sim would need to be more political than military, something that makes most wargamers itchy.

I think KOEI did pretty well with their American Revolutionary war sim.

I seem to recall the choices were at the begining were these really awesomely powerful guys with tons of soldiers, tons of ships and a fuckton of money, vs the Spanish, French, Dutch and some random colonials.

Fixed.

For now, we are planning digital distribution only. It just is too costly to make a physical version in advance when we don't know if the game will find a broader public than we expect  (we don't fool ourselves, we know the Russian Civil War is not actually mainstream, but we hope we will get a good share of interest from the wargaming community, like here.)

Although parts of the game’s engine are standard, Revolution under Siege has a great deal of new and fascinating concepts. Most scenarios have more than one faction. The Reds, Southern Whites, Siberian Whites, Poles, Finns and anarchists fight between themselves. Foreign intervention can introduce the armies of the Western Allies and the Central Powers. As if that wasn’t enough, some Russians just want to go their own way and form the “Greens” uncontrolled by any player.

Although some factions use the standard regiment/brigade scale, the Reds have even smaller elements of either special troops or hangers-on. These units make the composition of larger forces even more interesting and put strains on the fairly poor Communist leadership until Trotsky appears. Trotsky, with his special abilities, can turn the motley Bolsheviks into a formidable fighting force.