Hi all. This is the first time I've dug into the Twilight setting in any depth, and I was wondering what people thought of the NATO offensive presented in this edition?
The situation doesn't seem quite as hopeless as the setup in older editions. 5th ID may have died at Kalisz, but there are other American formations to the east and west for players to link up with. III Corps has fought hard and it doesn't seem like Soviet forces are in great shape. There are lots of Germans, Dutch and Polish to the north still fighting. We don't know anything between Wloclawek and the British/Belgian/Polish forces at Gdansk, but it's conceivable that the whole western bank of the lower Wisla could be under NATO control.
The intelligence handout says the aim of OPERATION RESET is to expel the Soviets entirely from Poland and then negotiate, and that it's a US led effort. I don't know the setting well, but if the NATO armies have limited communication with their own political leaders, who are they planning to speak to from the other side? Liberating Poland up to a defensible boundary seems like a more achievable and desirable goal for the Germans, to keep the Soviets away from their own border. Then maybe they're a bit more cooperative with the US Army about shipping people home.
I never played the game before, but I've never been entirely clear what motivates players in the older versions to hang around central Poland, or go eastwards towards the areas described in the modules? In this version, it seems like a much more viable option.