SGS NATO’s Nightmare

The game explores the possibility that the so-called Cold War turns hot around 1985, on one of its most iconic fronts: Germany.

The premise is that Gorbachev is losing power to a group of hardliners who decide that the time has come for the Soviet Union (and its Pact allies) to strike first while they still enjoy superior numbers and surprise. They fear that their current advantage will fade over time, and they know that they cannot win the new technological arms race started by the West. From NATO, such an attack would certainly be the nightmare everyone fears, but the situation is little better than in the 1970s, when the advantage in morale, equipment, and training was much greater in favor of the other side.