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Originally Posted by Adm.Lee
For that matter, why is XI Corps pinned where it is? There are no Pact or even German units between them and Kiel.
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Yeah, I'm wondering the same thing. It's pretty obvious on the map that I'm working on. There are no PACT units between XI Corps and the German border yet
Going Home states that they can't move for some reason and that USAER has given up on them.
Perhaps, as you mentioned, the Soviets nuked a road hub to the west of XI Corps when the Soviet formations broke off their attack (the late summer PACT offensive mentioned in
Going Home) or used chem/bio weapons to deny XI corps passage west. If, at the same time, XI fuel stores were spent and/or destroyed (maybe that airstrike or Spetznaz raid you mentioned), they could have been stranded there.
The proximity between XI Corps' cantonments and Pila, seat of the Polish Free Congress, suggests cooperation between the two.
Perhaps the XI Corps commander decided to stay put for some other reason. Perhaps he is ideologically opposed to pulling out of Europe. Perhaps he is of Polish ancestry or has a particularly well developed sense of honor. Perhaps it is a combination of several of the factors listed above.
It's an interesting situation and makes for an intriguing campaign setting c. the winter of 2000-2001.