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Thanks for the reply @yavasa. As @oriskany will tell you I am big on historical doctrine and tactics, in our games you lose VP for not staying within historical boundaries.
It is a pity there is little on Polish doctrine as I would be very interested in how they intended to use there rather eclectic mix of obsolete, aging and a sprinkling of near up to date equipment. In this respect they are similar to the Finns and the Dutch. Although I have a number of armies in 15mm by far my favorite to play for this very reason of small nation trying its best to construct useable army in the field. The Finns mixed theirs well taking their environment and terrain into their doctrine. So I would not imagine that Polish doctrine would be the same. I have come across Dutch doctrine whose equipment is just as eclectic and tiring it to their terrain came up with a very different doctrine. For Polish doctrine I have only been able to discern some of their strategic doctrine from the mid 30’s to 39 and after that some insight on their resistance.
I will check out that link to the Polish board game, however as stated earlier the guys I play with are hex phobic.
This is a pity as I love the early war period. Looking at the transition of peace time armies or colonial policing armies evolve into battle hardened armies. I think we missed out with the nation’s that were knocked out early such as Poland, Holland and Belgium as they all had doctrines that would have been interesting to see evolve like the Finnish doctrine. This was very interesting as it had to evolve against Russia and then German doctrines with both having better equipment.