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Originally Posted by Legbreaker
Many, many tactical nukes were used during the war in many many places. Just because Warsaw received three warheads in 1997 doesn't mean the countryside within 50km wasn't pockmarked with small nukes over the preceeding and subsequent months, or even years.
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True. And it says in the Black Madonna module that when NATO forces withdrew from Czechostowa they engaged in their own little piece of scorched earth policy by deploying a number of "backpack" nuclear demolition charges. They may well have deployed similar weapons in other parts of Poland.
One of the entries in the rumour tables in the Black Madonna module suggests that one of those charges failed to detonate and was never recovered by NATO forces. In my campaign that rumour was accurate and the nuke ended up in the mad Major's treasure hoard in the catacombs beneath the Jazna Gora. It was that nuke that Major Po's team used to obliterate Warsaw Pact Reserve Front HQ at Lublin, thereby cementing the NATO-WarPac stalemate in Poland. For me that infiltration mission involved the most intense and enjoyable gaming sessions of the entire campaign.