So here's what World War 1990: The Weser would look like.
Opening: SAUCER on conference call with NATO heads, 'We've lost the Battle of Bremen and they've broken through.'
Scene: US National Guard artillery battalion deploys and singlehandedly slows Soviet advance (reprising Westmoreland at Kasserine).
Scene: Meeting of division commanders assigned to ad-hoq corps (one US, one UK, two French) on situation. American corps commander says, 'Gentlemen I have just gotten off the phone with SAUCER and he tells me we're it.' Plan is hatched. US/UK will lead advance, French will exploit breakthrough.
Scene: Battered West German battalion retreats and finds advancing American armored battalion, battle is passed off. Krauts watch as Americans engage. Krauts watch as US tanks advance into morning mist and haze (imagine Sweet Emotion playing) then all of the sudden they hear guns and see flashes through the mist.
Scene: Brits advance along banks of Weser. (imagine Judas Priest's, Take on the World playing).
Scene: French attack on two division front into underbelly of Soviet breakthrough, (do we even have to say it? Les Marseilles).
A few characters:
NG battalion commander.
West German battalion commander.
US Army battalion commander.
French Corps commander.
Grizzled old whermacht vet who commanded 88 battery in Der Afrika Corps and volunteers to arty spot.
I've been wanting to ask for a while.... at some point will we see final comprehensive casualty figures for each nation ? We already saw some for the US, the UK, to a lesser extent the Danes (10,000 Casualties in I Danish Corps, but no breakdown between KIA & WIA); and if memory serves at one of the politburo meetings they said over a million Soviet servicemen had been killed during the fighting.
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