The State of Other Armies in the Late Twilight War

[Legbreaker]

When there is the time, where your company has a strength of something like 20 men, what will the CO do Will he really try to find another unit and keep up the fighting

The great majority of units are still in contact and under the command of higher units. A Company comander for example is reporting to, supported by and under the orders of his Battalion. The Battalion is likewise subject to the Brigade and the Brigade to the Division.

There appears to be very few units out of contact of higher command which are Brigade sized or less. Therefore, I doubt the Company commander of his 20 men is going to have much choice in the matter - if his unit is incapable of carrying out it's assigned tasks due to lack of manpower, it will be amalgamated with other understrength units either by being broken up and it's members used as reinforcements, or having other units broken up and their members reassigned to it to bring up the numbers.

[Raellus]

There appears to be very few units out of contact of higher command which are Brigade sized or less. Therefore, I doubt the Company commander of his 20 men is going to have much choice in the matter - if his unit is incapable of carrying out it's assigned tasks due to lack of manpower, it will be amalgamated with other understrength units either by being broken up and it's members used as reinforcements, or having other units broken up and their members reassigned to it to bring up the numbers.

Unless they desert en-masse. Is battalion or whatever going to send men after them Maybe; maybe not. It depends on a number of circumstances. Could make for an interesting encounter, though. If the deserters somehow got away- and it seems like this could be more and more likely as the war wears on and everything, including the military chain of command breaks down- it seems perfectly reasonable that the bits or large chunks of the unit would integrate itself into a local community' militia force. Think of the Seven Samurai x3 or 4!

For example, in my T2K campaign, the experienced core of the Gora Kalwaria militia consists of Polish army deserters. There were also a couple of ex-NATO soldiers serving in the militia as well.

How many T2K parties (mostly NATO) settled down in some Polish or German ville and became the core of that settlement's defense force

[Adm.Lee]

Two bits to throw in here. Two weeks ago, I was at a con, and discussing Eastern Europe. One guy told about his grandfather, who had been in the Austro-Hungarian army in WW1, somewhere out in Ukraina when everything collapsed in the summer of 1918. His unit, reduced by desertion, marched a lot, and then wintered over in some peasant village. They had been lugging a heavy MG all this time, at the captain's insistence. While there, they fought off numerous bandit, Red, White, Green attempts to forage the peasants' food stocks. The village elders pleaded with them to stick around as long as they wanted, but the guys all wanted to get back to their own homeland(s).

The lesson the narrator learned is that if one man has food, and another has a gun, the man with the gun will not go hungry.

How many T2K parties (mostly NATO) settled down in some Polish or German ville and became the core of that settlement's defense force

I'm pretty sure I've told this before, but one of my players was pretty freaked out about a dream he had when I ran the Polish modules at Allegheny. He dreamed he was his character, and the party overnighted with a Polish widow and her kids in a shack. In the morning, the party was getting ready to leave, and he heard himself saying, "No, I'm staying here," which woke him up. He couldn't remember if the widow looked like his then-girlfriend, but I suspect she might have.

So, no I haven't run that (yet), but I think it could have plenty of possibilities. I still want to run Twilight:1918, for that matter.