The idea is to run the European campaign, starting with 'Escape from Kalisz' to 'Going Home' (and using all of the adventures that i have challenge articles for in between)...
The PCs will be assigned to the Fourth Platoon, Dog Company, 3rd-6th Infantry Regiment (Mech), 2nd Battalion, 5th (Mechanized) Infantry Division. They where cut off form the rest of their parent battalion and given optional orders from their battalion and company commanders to raise as much hell as possible behind Soviet lines to give the rest of the elements of the 5ID a chance to make it back to NATO lines. And if they do this, the Battalion Commander promises the platoon that they will be extracted by air. The platoon are even asked to gather as many stragglers from the 5ID into their command for later extraction.
Thus players can be anything they want to be, and still feel as part of the larger command since they have functional communications gear.
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