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Originally Posted by Jason Weiser
Actually Rae,
The truth can be just as much fun as fiction....
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Dang it! I knew I couldn't have thought of it first. In preparation for my game I did a bunch of research on the German nuke program, the NKVD, Smiert, and the Red Army scouts- much of it on Wikepedia- and never come across any references to Alsos, per se.
My idea was slightly different, though. My team was going to be expendable, made up of recently liberated Red Army troops (rarely trusted by the NKVD, many of them were sent straight to the Gulags), Red Germans, and such, dressed as German soldiers, and slipped in ahead of the Red Army, just as the Battle of Berlin was getting underway.
Oh well, I still think it would make for a cool T2K-like campaign.
There's also a really cool suggestion for an Escape from Kalisz-type game in the back of Osprey's campaign series title (#205),
Bagration 1944. It describes a running fight of about a squad of German infantry (and maybe a vehicle or two) against randomly rolled Red Army units.