I once ran a game where I started the PCs out as POWs in camp along the Polish/Soviet Union border. I gave the PCs minimal starting equipment based off the list in the Gateway to the Spanish Main book and let them acquire various bits and pieces from whatever they could scrounge or steal from camp. The PCs got assigned to various work duties based on their skills, the mechanic got to work in the motorpool, doctor and medic got worked in the infimary, etc. They eventually busted out of the POW camp and made their way west to Krakow via the Wisla Krolowa.
I once got to play in a game where the GM let the PCs each run a group of about 20-30 npcs. There were about 3 or 4 of us, the basic premise was that we were cut off during the XI Corps offensive and had settled in a town in Poland and were the town's defense force against various marauders and warlords.
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