Here's my "amateurish" orbat and operational history for a fictional "regiment-like-unit" composed by former East Germany and military convicted troops:
Kampfgruppe Lindemann, Czechoslovakia, Early Summer 2000
Kampfgruppe Headquarter (2x UAZ 469)
2x Motorized Rifle Battalions,
1th Battalion (about 400 men) with 1x BMP-3, 8x BMP-1, several civilian vehicles
2th Battalion (about 400 men) with 5x BMP-1, several civilian vehicles
1x Artillery Battery (1x 120mm SO-120, 3x 122mm towed howitzers, several civilian vehicles)
1x Reconnaissance Company (2x BRDM-2, 1x UAZ 469)
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Commander of the Kampfgruppe is Christoph Lindemann, Oberstleutnant of the NVA, veteran of the Sino-Soviet War and son of a famous german member of the Communist Party. On October 7th, 1996, while the Bundeswehr crossed the border to fight against the Group of Soviet Forces in Germany, he gave his men the possibility to join the others in the war against their former allied or to follow him to the nearest Soviet military unit to receive orders. He was able to collect a force of about 800 men.
He fought until November against West Germany troops together with Czechs and Poles and, when the high ranking officers of the NVA deposed the leaders of the country replacing them with a military junta declaring war against the WarPac forces, his unit was designed as Kampfgruppe Lindemann (a volunteer unit) and sent to fight in Southern Germany until April 1997.
He proposed to his Soviet superiors the idea to increase the ranks of the unit with men coming from military prisons and this proposal was accepted. In July of the same year the Kampfgruppe Lindemann reached the maximum number of troops with Czechs, Hungarians, Bulgarians "penal volunteers" and the original nucleus of East Germany soldiers (mainly officers and NCOs).
During the winter of 1997-98, lacking of fuel, ammunitions and food, the Kampfgruppe began to systematically loot the country committing terrible acts against the civilian population.
In late August 1998, when NATO launched the offensive to penetrate the WarPac rear areas in Czechoslovakia, the Pact forces in Central Germany began a precipitous withdrawl, laying waste to Southern Germany as they retreated. Kampfgruppe Lindemann reached Czechoslovakia on the 1th October after another act of barbary: the execution of about 100 NATO POWs. Almost on the same time the second nuclear exchange between NATO and Pact began and fightings gradually ran down in winter.
In early January 1999, some officers of the Kampfgruppe began to secretly organize a mutiny. The idea was to arrest or kill all Lindemann's supporters and Christoph Lindemann himself, reach the NATO lines and surrender. Oberstleutnant Lindemann was aware of the plan and executed all the mutineers for high treason with the consent of the WarPac military authorities.
Another season of criminal activities and sporadical fightings began and the Kampfgruppe was always in first line receiving a last "shipment" of fresh troops (always military convicts) in March 1999. Because of the change in warfare, with fronts static for months, Kampfgruppe Lindemann remained in Czechoslovakia performing:
1) guerrilla activity mainly against bands of foreign marauders roaming the countryside
2) looting targets like small towns, villages and even units of the Warsaw Pact when supplies did not arrive
3) forced recruitment of civilians and soldiers from disbanded units (in the Kampfgruppe is famous the history of perhaps the only US soldier in a WarPac unit, a deserter who is now one of the members of Kampfgruppe's HQ)
4) illegal executions of civilians and stragglers
5) propaganda in POW camps
Now (2000) the Kampfgruppe is totally an independent unit controlled by Oberstleutnant Lindemann himself who sporadically cooperate with WarPac troops. Rumors says that a new mutiny is on the horizon because the discontent, especially amongst the non-veterans, is high...
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