French involvement in the Europe after 2001.

[pmulcahy11b]

Originally Posted by Adm.Lee

Small teams and agent networks are all I've been thinking the French would be able to do for a while. Were I them, I would be wanting to collect intelligence from the east as much as possible, with an eye to influencing things in a pro-French direction.

Or drop off teams of Australian SAS by sub in Poland to pick up a package, as in Twilight Encounters. BTW, has anyone come up with a possible back story behind that one?

[Targan]

Originally Posted by pmulcahy11b

Or drop off teams of Australian SAS by sub in Poland to pick up a package, as in Twilight Encounters. BTW, has anyone come up with a possible back story behind that one?

No, but here's an idea. They needed the best in the world for a mission, and got them.

[Legbreaker]

They needed more spare parts for their MP-5's and stupidly trusted the Frence to drop them off in Germany?

There could be any number of reasons, but I just can't think of any particularly important ones. Australia has just come out of a war with Indonesia which resulted in the near total destruction of Australia's naval and air assets. It's also popssible that we're engaged in Korea as part of the UN forces there. There are indications also that Australians are located on Cyprus carrying out peacekeeping duties with the UN.

With all that activity elsewhere, I'm not so sure an SAS mission in devastated Poland would be all that high up on the list of priorities...

[pmulcahy11b]

Originally Posted by Legbreaker

With all that activity elsewhere, I'm not so sure an SAS mission in devastated Poland would be all that high up on the list of priorities...

Maybe they needed to rescue another badly-needed politician...

[Targan]

Originally Posted by Legbreaker

With all that activity elsewhere, I'm not so sure an SAS mission in devastated Poland would be all that high up on the list of priorities...

But it did happen. It is canon. The mini-adventure "What's Polish for G'day".

[Legbreaker]

Originally Posted by Rainbow Six

I wonder what would have happened to Nigeria - I'd imagine it must have been hit by a few nukes in 1997 or 1998.

Payback for all the internet and mail scams....

Originally Posted by Targan

But it did happen. It is canon. The mini-adventure "What's Polish for G'day".

True, but it seems very odd to me. There just doesn't seem to be any reason they should be there.
I suppose that's they whole point though - keep the PCs off balance and questioning what's actually going on around them.

[Targan]

Originally Posted by Legbreaker

True, but it seems very odd to me. There just doesn't seem to be any reason they should be there.
I suppose that's they whole point though - keep the PCs off balance and questioning what's actually going on around them.

Maybe they walked there from the Middle East theatre LOL. The SAS do love their long range foot patrols.

[kato13]

I attributed it to a thrice a year or so submarine transit between France and Australia of unique and/or critical items. Australia may not have had enough cargo to send back to France on one trip so they sent a four man team. Then they would have assets in Europe just in case they needed them. (To grab RESET for example)

[Legbreaker]

That crack about the French sub could have been just smoke and mirrors too...
Gotta keep quiet about what's really going on.