Bulgaria: Regular 117,500 Reserves 472,500
Most likely the Turkish invasion of Bulgaria made any chance of defections to NATO a moot point
However there was a very large Turkish minority population in Bulgaria, many of whom were in the Kardzhali Province that Turkey would have invaded for sure. Almost ten percent of the population were Turks.
So you could have seen defections from Turks serving in the Bulgarian Army to the NATO Turkish units during the war.
Hungary: Regular 91,000 Reserves 168,000
Actually surprised at how little info there is on them in the game. The 1956 invasion and its after effects made them the least trusted of any of the Warsaw Pact units - and them going lockstep along with the Warsaw Pact really doesn't make sense - especially after the Soviets were on the ropes in early 1997. You would have figured that when it looked like the West was going to win in walk in early and mid 1997 before the nukes started to fly that some units at the very least would have gone turncoat and taken on any Soviet units still on their soil.
Poland: Regular 412,000 Reserves 505,000
The fact that the Germans invaded and the devastation of the Polish heartland by the NATO invasion probably kept most Poles on the side of the Warsaw Pact but the game does say there were defections (Polish National Congress and the two units mentioned in Going Home for instance).
My campaign in college had one character played as a Polish Army defector who was attached to the 5th Division.
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