It is the autumn of 1919.
The Russian Civil War has been raging for over a year now, and the Bolsheviks are pushed back on all fronts. In the North the Western Allies has launched a series of attacks, in the South Denikins armies are slicing through the Ukraine. And in the West Yudenichs White troops in Estonia start their offensive, aiming directly at Petrograd, the cradle of the Bolshevik movement.
The Whites are out-numbered, but they have been rather well equipped by the British, who have supplied them with, among other things, aircraft and a number of heavy Mk IV Tanks. And they are facing the Red 7th Army, demoralized by a long stalemate and by the mis-treatment they have suffered in the hands their former commander, a dour, unknown georgian by the name of Josef Stalin. (Their fighting power is further diminished by the fact, that a high ranking 7th Army staff officer just has deserted to the Whites, taking with him detailed information on their positions.)
On September the 28th the artillery of the White troops open up. The push on Petrograd has begun...
