Summer 2000 [Poland] Offensive Revisited

[Legbreaker]

Originally Posted by Raellus

Where does it say this in canon? This appears to be your own interpretation of the Summer 200o offensive.

It's scattered all around the place. You've got information saying specifically the offensive was by the German III Army, then there's also references in the Nato vehicle guide of British units (which were outside the III Army) being involved in the offensive.

Looking through everything, the only areas that don't have references are the south of Germany and up in the Nordic countries. Some references are just a line of text, but there is enough to form an overall picture of a general offensive.

It also needs to be remembered that the materials are written specifically as background for a small group of predominately US survivors of the destruction of the 5th ID. What's happening outside the immediate area is of little real importance to the game play and so has received minimal attention by the developers. We can see a great amount of detail has gone into the Kalisz area right down to individual unit commanders being named, while entire Divisions a few hundred kilometres away receive little more than manpower and tank numbers with (if we're lucky) perhaps 2-3 lines of background text. Fortunately for us, those 2-3 lines often hold vital clues to the overall picture - they mean nearly nothing when viewed in isolation, but when gathered together and viewed as a whole....