“Warfare is a means and not an end. Warfare is a tool of revolutionaries. The important thing is the revolution. The important thing is the revolutionary cause, revolutionary ideas, revolutionary objectives, revolutionary sentiments, revolutionary virtues!” – Premier Fidel Castro

“Aggression unopposed becomes a contagious disease.” – President Jummy Carter

A SWAPO commander assassinated in Angola . . . detonators missing from Aviano AFB . . . is there a connection? NATO needs to know . . .

It is fall 1980. Soviets battle Afghan insurgents in Peshawar. Iraqi tanks threaten to roll across Iranian Khuzestan. A terrorist bomb rips through the Bologna train station. The African National Congress attacked South African oil refineries. Polish workers mount a strike on the shipyards at Gdansk. American diplomats are held hostage in Teheran following a failed rescue attempt the previous spring.

And in a conference room in Casteau, Belgium, at Supreme Headquarters Allied Powers Europe, a group of agents prepares to receive a briefing, and a mission . . ..

Cold Warriors is a play-by-post campaign for the Top Secret roleplaying game.

Tradecraft – The player’s guide to Cold Warriors