CCP Leader Mao Zedong

Mao Zedong emerged as a principal leader of the Chinese Communist movement and its armed forces during the civil conflicts and anti-Japanese war of the twentieth century. His leadership was associated with rural base areas, political organization, guerrilla warfare, and later conventional campaigns. After Communist victory in 1949, he became the leading figure of the People’s Republic of China. A wartime leader figure should be placed in the appropriate phase of that long and consequential political-military career. Mao’s position developed through revolutionary organization, civil war, and the struggle against Japan rather than through command of a conventional foreign army. Communist base areas depended on political mobilization and rural support. His eventual victory in 1949 transformed the institutional setting in which his earlier wartime leadership had operated.

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Tabletop use

Suitable for period-appropriate custom scenarios in Global War 1936, Global Empires, and compatible Axis & Allies games. Use suitable scenario or house rules for unit statistics and any technology upgrades. This piece does not supply additional game rules.

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