I have the 6th being raised from a brigade to a full(ish) division in 1996 by recalling reservists, veterans of the brigade from the prior four years of conscription. This is similar to the East German planning, where the elite 40th Willi Sanger Airborne Battalion was to be expanded to a full brigade.
On the 12th, I have the 12th Mechanized Division sent by sea to Vladivostok over the winter of 1995-6 and thrown into the 1996 Soviet spring offensive, where it takes heavy losses. The remnants are returned to Poland in the summer, where it is re-formed as a tank Division, which uses less troops than a mechanized division. The Soviets hand over 275 T-62s for the unit, held in reserve in East Germany and last used by GSFG's independent Training tank Regiments. Its just getting itself together when the war in Germany breaks out in December, and since its stationed in Szczecin it finds itself in action pretty quickly. It gets converted to a cavalry division later in the war.
On the Podhale Brigade, it was formally the 5th Internal Defense Brigade, an Army formation with territorial defense and internal security duties (part of the WOW Internal Troops), assigned to the Polish Internal Front's Warsaw Military District and not assigned to the Warsaw Pact command structure. I don't have any particular unit history for it; it was stationed near Krakow and potentially would have fought in southern Poland. GDW totally missed the WOW's existence, so I could see how many of the references to the ORMO are actually militias built upon the framework of WOW command structures.
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I love the smell of napalm in the morning. You know, one time we had a hill bombed, for 12 hours. When it was all over, I walked up. We didn't find one of 'em, not one stinkin' body. The smell, you know that gasoline smell, the whole hill. Smelled like... victory. Someday this war's gonna end...
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