@Kato: Thanks. I'll fiddle around with ithe map some more and see if I can't discover/unlock some additional features.
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Originally Posted by Webstral
Great work, Raellus! This is nice stuff. One can go many different directions from here. Thanks for doing the legwork to get this together.
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You're welcome. It was mostly kind of fun to put together.
Making that map kind of changed my thoughts on the war past 2000. Looking at the unit placements and statuses strongly suggests that, by the winter of 2000-2001, the war is, for all intents and purposes, over. Many Soviet units are listed as refusing orders from higher HQ. A few are described as simply waiting out the winter in Poland before returning home in the spring. A couple of the Red Army Corps and Army HQs are no longer in communication with their constituent units. There's open fighting between Polish and Soviet units near Kalisz. Several powerful Polish Army units have declared for the Polish Free Congress. Many others have gone the route of the Krakow garrison and transformed into purely local defense forces. Aside from a couple of wannabe warlords and the U.S. XI Corps, most American units are on their way home. Germany's got bigger fish to fry in the west.
When I state that the war is over, I want to be clear that by "war" I mean the convential/nuclear armed conflict between prewar nation-states c.1996-late 2000. It's also quite clear that fighting will continue for some time, as various entities vie for the scraps of central Europe. Some regions look to be particularly prone to continuing/continual spasms of violence. With no functioning central government, municipalities and whole regions must fend for themselves. It's a really fertile environment for all kinds of struggles and intrigues. In many cases, its every hamlet, village, town, city, and province for itself. I've really enjoyed exploring this setting in my own long-running PbP. It's a great time/place to experiment with different kinds of social, eeconomic and political systems.