I think the BM designers didn't want to railroad PCs into taking out the Margrave as a matter of course. They'd pretty much already done something similar with "Black Baron" Czarny in the RoW module so my guess is they left BM a little more open-ended so that the PCs had more sense of choice- overthrow him, join him, work for him for a bit and then betray him, other? My guess is that most PCs would have seen him as an adversary, but I think the designers wanted to avoid the impression that they were recommending any particular course of action. My impression with the RoW (which I'm more or less running right now in my PoV PbP) is that everything presented in the module is meant to steer the PCs into duking it out with the Baron.
The only personal experience have had with the Margrave of Silesia is that I once played as a Polish partisan who was part of a group (including a couple of U.S. SOF PCs) who deserted from one of the Margrave's convoy escort cavalry units to join an understrength company from the 5th ID which was on its way west towards NATO lines in No Carrier's defunct Stalemate War game on RPGnet. The idea was that the PCs had joined out of necessity or lack of purpose and then opportunistically took off with his horses when an opportunity presented itself. They didn't feel too guilty because the Margrave was a jerk. I guess that's one of the down sides to hiring mercs.
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