[natehale1971]

In our campaign, US and British dependents were sent home as soon as they where put on alert when the Sino-Soviet War started. And once the alert was lowered, they were returned back to their homes in West Germany. Thus when the West Germans went into the DDR to support their cousins declaration that they were leaving the Warsaw Pact from any attempts by the Soviets to pull another Black Winter, or the other half-dozen other anti-soviet uprisings over the past 60 years they was not as big of a move to evacutation of the the dependents... namely because it was felt that the Soviets would take the hint and not try for a two front war...

But as we all know that was a HUGE mistake. The Soviets were not about to allow the DDR (or any of the other Warsaw Pact states for that matter) to go willingly. That they NEEDED the E.Germans as part of their little party. Not only because of the strategic position of being right in the centre of Europe... but they FEARED a unified German state being strong enough to fight them (and they still are for that matter).

In our campaign the dependents were shifted around and gotten out of the theater on any available plane or boat that was heading back to the US, and when they couldn't be evacuated back to the States they were evacuated to the UK and to a neutral states such as Ireland. From there they would be placed on transports flying the flags of the various neutral powers to get back to the USA.

Of course this didnt really work out the way they had it planned... and the reason why in my version of 2300ad the British Army has the Royal American Rifles and Royal German Legion as to semi-independent corps fighting for them... but that is a story for another time.