@Rainbow: You've presented some good options. I tried making a chart displaying known and suspected unit locations in both summer and winter of 2000, but I don't really like the way it looks. I think I mentioned already that NATO launches holding attacks to support the summer 2000 offensive. All we really know is that there's an entire U.S. Corps in Austria on July 1st and only a single RCT remains by the time of Going Home. Like you said, a couple of things could have happened in between. Both sides battle to a stalemate or Austria is a quiet sector. Since there's not a lot of movement by either side, it could have gone either way. Linz is a tantalizing clue, but it supports both theories equally well- either the Soviets moved in when the U.S. pulls out in the fall, or the city was captured during a Soviet attack/counterattack during the summer. I'd like at least a hint from canon on which to build a history.
@Olefin: I agree that there's probably at least one Green Beret A-team somewhere in central Austria, helping maximize the effectiveness of Austrian partisans. I may add something to that effect.
As to the Hungarian units, the canon only mentions one as being anywhere close to the Austrian border in the year 2000. Going Home doesn't mention them at all. The Eastern European Sourcebook says that the Hungarian army is preoccupied with internal security operations and the fighting in Romanian and the Balkans.
This is all I could find:
"Hungarian 3rd MRB
600 men. The 3rd is dug in around Gyor to defend from the possibility of allied attack from Austria."
Considering how stretched the Red Army is, it makes sense. I'm sure that Soviet units probably contain press-ganged Hungarian stragglers, though.
I thought about adding a unit of mostly Hungarian marauders (with a historical Magyar-themed name), but I concluded that I already had too many marauder groups. I might still, though.
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