February 1997 Fighting in Southern Germany

[Rainbow Six]

Originally Posted by Olefin

And players could easily take the southern route home - especially in games today. While the initial release of modules had the players go deeper into Poland (which to me made little sense, who is going to head east to get home unless you play a party of Soviet or Ukranian deserters?) having the Black Madonna module shows a more realistic route - i.e. one thru Silesia and then into western Czechoslovakia and Austria into Germany. Opening up all kinds of new encounters and equipment possibilities.

I could be wrong here (am going from memory and it has been a very long time since I read the material) but I think there may have been something written in the very early published material, either the original v1 box set or the Free City of Krakow that strongly hinted that the best route for Kalisz survivors to take was in the direction of Krakow and gave reasons why other, potentially more direct, routes were best avoided (e.g running into large bodies of enemy troops).