The Fulda Gap Modification for Wargame: Air Land Battle is designed to provide campaigns for the three major combatants in a hypothetical conflict between WARSAW and NATO forces. Forces for the campaign have certain preset variables but can be changed by the player as per his liking many elements of the unit availability and timeline range have been modified to fit into a reasonable expectation of probability for each country’s military capability.
The year for the campaign timer begins in 1979, this is the most likely year the Russians would have decided to attack (US morale and troop strength was at its lowest just after the Vietnam war) had STAVKA been given permission to begin planning their attack against the NATO force in West Germany after ’79 the chance of a Russian attack across the Fulda gap diminishes by roughly ten percent (10%) each year until 1989 when a general withdrawal of Soviet forces in east Germany is announced and the reunification of Germany begins.
Named locations were peacetime barracks positions. Prior to hostilities, all units would deploy to their wartime General Defense Plan (GDP). There were three wartime scenarios that could have occurred. The first was where the Warsaw Pact attacked directly out of their barracks locations with only a few days of preparation, depending on strategic surprise, NATO would have had about 48 to 72 hours warning. This was the scenario NATO feared the most.