This game covers the first 30 days of the next war in Europe. You can choose to be the supreme commander of N.A.T.O. or the Warsaw Pact. In your control are air and ground units. These are backed up by your ability to make strategic nuclear/chemical attacks.
As the Warsaw Pact commander your task is to break the N.A.T.O. alliance, which you see as a powerful invasion force, poised on your border. You will achieve your aims by taking over West Germany.
As the N.A.T.O. commander your task is to stop any further Russian invasion of Europe. You will achieve this by preventing the occupation of West Germany.