In 1949, the fate of the world was hanging by a thread. Irreconcilable political contradictions between the NATO countries and the USSR forced both sides to increase their military potential as fast as they could. Stormy clouds were gathering over Europe, and they were the blackest in Germany - divided into occupation zones by the former anti-Hitler coalition allies. Nuclear weapons threated to turn the ripening conflict into a massacre to overshadow even the horrors of WW2... Hammer & Sickle is a tactical RPG based on the Silent Storm universe. The story unveils in the British-American sector of the occupied Germany in spring of 1949. As a Soviet undercover agent, you'll find yourself in the middle of the tough confrontation of special services - in the hell of secret war. You'll have to find your way in the web of cunning intrigues, and make decisions which will affect the fate of the world: will it live in peace, or collapse into chaos of the Third World war.