They are both available on dtrpg. There were 3 people reviewing them and my personal opinion is that our reviews were inconclusive, so Marc decided to put them both for sale. As far as I can recall both were quite decent when it comes to RPG fiction, and our job was to look for contradictions to previously published material, and overall evaluation.
The politics is something that interested me as a player and referee, so when I introduced my group to TNE I took the liberty to translate some parts of PoT (hope it doesn’t cause infringement on copyrights of any kind) for my players, and they pointed me to that direction as a possible plot for some adventures.
As for the German forces in Poland, we allow them to use our armour training grounds (for a small fee) and that would be all. There is still a strong mistrust to any foreign troops stationing in Poland, to a point that, when the US suggested installing Anti Ballistic System in Poland we had strong voices against.
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So the Paul Brunette MS did exist? I was just having a discussion about
that with Wayne's Books, and I didn't know. He did explain to me that Marc
pulled in a new author to write the third installment, which I thought was
sad. It would have been nice had Paul been able to finish his series. I
did
talk to Paul a couple of times when I was working for the Army at Fort
Knox. The printer we used wanted to finish up the series, even though GDW
was done by then. The story was going to do with the loss of one of SecGen
Maggart's daughters on a mission, and the crew of the Hornet was looking
for them. Since Maggart and his daughters were based on real people, Paul
had some detail questions for me. I regret to say that my last
conversation with him took place under less-than-ideal circumstances. I was
running late for a meeting with the Armor School Doctrine Division (I did
the electronic staffing, publication, and distribution of their stuff), and
was driving and trying to call them on my cell phone to tell them I was
running late, and my battery was dying. At that moment Paul called me. My
response, "I don't have time, my battery is dying, I have to call someone
for my real job," was rather more stressed and rushed and irritable than
polite. That was the last time I spoke with him (for some reason I could
not recover the number to call him back, maybe cell phones didn't do that
well back in 1996), and I still regret the way that happened.
The intent behind the factions was to add depth, rather than to set up a
planned plot device. But the thing about details like that is that
sometimes they take on a life of their own and get bigger than you
originally thought. And that's a good thing.
There was a funny story shortly after Poland joined PfP or NATO in the
'90s, about German force deployment, how it was going to be deployed vs.
the Russians now that an ally was on their Eastern border instead of a
WarPac nation. Their response was something like, "Naah, we're going to
leave them where they are. If we have to, we'll just charge right across
Poland to fight the Russians on Polish soil." Those Germans, looking for an
excuse to invade Poland again.
On Sun, 10 Jun 2012 22:06:38 +0200, Błażej Mazur < <blase2%