This was actually the second set of campaigns I ran years ago after we got tired of Death of a Division. I just looked in my electronic stuff for the campaigns and maps and all kinds of stuff, not to be found. Its all in a huge pile of past campaign stuff stacked in storage somewhere. But youre making me think back on some gaming that we did in high school.
From memory, we did the same as what you are all saying, amphibious operations centered on the Gdynia/Gdansk/Elbag line, with a push further inland towards Malbork. The intent was to secure the fishing areas around the mouth of the Wisla river, and hold what port facilities remained in Elbag (which turned out to be the center of the tactical nuclear weapons detonated on Elbag).
From here we branched out a little bit. Taking my cue from XI Corps order of battle, we did a little bit of work with the 50th AD as well, and I remember reading through the canon and thinking "Latvia????? How did the 8th ID get way out there??"
At the end of July, I could just see CG XI Corps saying "WTF just happened??"
The Player group that made the landings at Gdynia (much harder of a target as it had not been hit with any nuclear weapons) were then tasked with performing a long range recon to find out what had happened to and to re-establish contact with the 5th ID. The Players were playing a squad from 2nd Recon Battalion so it worked out fine. Yes...a little bit of meta-gaming as these Players already had played Death of a Division...
The second Player group for this was actually when I was in the military, and was made up of a light mechanized group built around 2nd Bn 8th Marines. The mission, using what the first group had learned, was to force their way south, bypassing heavy concentrations of forces, and rescue anyone from the 5th that could be found.
As you might expect, this wasnt a milk run, and TF 2/8 never did make it close to Kalisz, but did find out why the Soviets had been able to move so many divisions so fast, and raided a supply dump full of the diesel they were using. The mission failed, but was unbelievable entertaining, including running engagements between the group's LAV-25 platoon and a company of Soviet Infantry mounted in BTR-60s and trucks. The pair of M60A3s couldn't keep up, so it turned into an 8-wheel free-for-all, including one LAV ending up going off a bridge, a call for mortar fire just a little too close (forgot to call "danger close"), the Amtracks and Hummers trying to figure out where to jump in, a running autocannon fight, and culminating in a Sniper and two Grunts having "had enough of this s**t!" and jumping out at a stopping point and grounding the battle on the far side of the river bridge where things got REALLY interesting.
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