Strategy & Tactics# 309 - The War of Turkish Liberation

From the Publisher:

The Magazine:

The War of Turkish Liberation: After their defeat in World War I, the Ottoman Empire was in ruins. In May 1919, Turkish nationalist forces would find themselves in a war for independence.

Other Articles:

Battle of Antietam: The Battle of Antietam is remembered as the bloodiest single day battle in American military history. Often overshadowed by other famous battles in the war, Antietam was instrumental in enabling Abraham Lincoln to issue the Emancipation Proclamation.

Lucky Forward - Patton’s Third Army in Lorraine: In the course of 280 days, the US Third Army blazed across Europe, liberating over 81,000 square miles of territory. From September to early December 1944, the Third Army fought a grinding campaign to push the German army from Lorraine.

The Game:

The War of Turkish Liberation begins during the first half of 1920, when the victors of World War I (Greece, France, Italy, and Great Britain) tried to implement the partition of the Ottoman Empire that had been agreed to at the treaty of Sévrés. There are two players in this game:the Revolutionary player and the Imperialist player. The Revolutionary player controls the Bolshevik and Turkish Nationalist armies, and the Imperialist player controls the armies of Greece, Armenia, Azerbaijan and Georgia.

There are a total of 11 game turns (from Spring 1920 to Autumn 1922). At the end of game turn 11, the Imperialist player wins if he has accrued enough Victory Points for capturing key objectives throughout Turkey and adjacent countries. The Revolutionary player wins if he prevents his opponent from capturing key objectives.

Components: One 22" x 34" map & 200 counters