Oh, and re: copyright infringement, I would believe that to be a perfect
example of "fair use."
> 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 doesnât 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, BÅażej Mazur <
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