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@Simonmark6: I agree completely. A more open-ended scenario adds a lot more room for different storylines and roleplaying opportunities. My proposed rationale for the offensive is non-canonical. I was simply trying to add another alternative explanation for the offensive, one opening additional opportunities to the T2K GM.

@Fuse: Where can one find the reference to the Baltic fisheries? I don't recall ever seeing any such reference and I'd like to take a look at it.

@Webstral: Once again, my proposal is non-canonical. I'm not asking anyone to accept it as canon, or even more properly canonical than another user-created scenario or rationale. If published canon contradicts what I've written- and it appears that it does- then my creation becomes apocrypha by default. I'm fine with that. I'm also fine with constructive criticism.

@All: The reason I got a little fired up is that I bristle when people present their own material as being more canonical than others' when it is, in fact, completely unsupported by published canon. I'm refering specifically here to Legbreaker's assertions that III German Army's summer 2000 offensive is part of a much larger general NATO offensive taking place across most/all of Poland. There is simply no canonical basis for this. I've found no such references to a wider offensive in the original v1.0 timeline, any of the vehicle guides, or in the Going Home module. As of yet, Leg has not presented any proper references or citations of published canon to support his claims. In addition, as far as I can tell, there is no reference in canon to the Lithuanian oil shales being a strategic objective of III German Army's offensive. When these two "extrapolations" were presented as being more properly canonical than what I'd proposed, I had to call B.S, especially considering some of the debates we've had here and Legbreaker's previously stated position on what should or should not be considered canon.