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Originally Posted by Raellus
Targan, did you ever tease out, even just behind the scenes, what the nuking of the Lublin Poles' HQ had on the situation in Poland and/or beyond?
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Well initially in the first few days and within fast horse ride of line-of-site to the mushroom cloud, there was general panic among the surrounding combatants and the populace. No nukes had been detonated in Poland in years. The PCs had deployed the SADM underground (in a sewer) so unfortunately there was a horribly dirty ground burst with a nasty fallout plume.
In the following weeks there was a pretty much total collapse in command and control among those WarPac units in Poland that had still been following orders. That was the PCs' main objective, as by this stage they were a thorn in the side of WarPac forces and had been actively hunted. The breakdown of C&C helped them and other American units in their efforts to get back to Germany to join the fleet heading back to CONUS. The DIA had enthusiastically supported the mission for reasons of the "war effort", but by late 2000 the thought that any side was going to "win" the war was obviously ridiculous.
Po and his band of murder enthusiasts had a relatively easy time of things heading back to Germany. They stopped being so careful about the use of hard-to-replace ammunition and ordnance and went full-overkill on any significant threats as they drove west. They weren't openly telling most of the people they talked to about the nuking, but they told the higher-ups as soon as they reached Germany (the DIA had broadcast coded notifications ahead of them anyway) and they were feted as heroes by the generals, also with some awe and suspicion thrown in.
Longer term their use of the nuke coloured their relations with the top brass back home in the US, and basically forced them into one side of a schism between factions of MilGov command back in Norfolk. The general officers with a special forces bent treated Po like he was a demigod.