Scanario: You command Poland 1939, what would you do if...

Scenario: 1939. You are Marshal Edward Rydz-Śmigły and his high command in charge of Poland. Germany has annexed Czeckoslovakia and is now making territorial threats on Poland. Polish-Soviet relations have collapsed. War is imminent.

You are given two thousand all-wheel-drive all-terrain off-road jeeps, half ton trucks and heavy trucks mounted with recoilles guns and multiple-barrelled rocket launchers, heavy machine guns, automatic-cannons and light anti-aircraft artillery; 100 thousand assault rifles, automatic pistols and sub-machine guns; rocket propelled grenades; 20 fighter jets; radar; guided cruise missiles; advanced communications, radios and electronic warfare interception-jamming equipment; and billions of shells and bullets.

How will you place and deploy them in battle, what is your strategy with this equipment and how do you keep them secret.

Background:

A surprise visit

All of a sudden , in the middle of the night, unnnounced and with zero fanfare, arrives by fast transport plane at Warsaw airport Shanive Zayed, the head of state of Atlantis (a poor Black island country about the size of Puerto Rico, residing south of Bermuda in the north Atlantic Ocean), as well as his cabinet, advisors, and representatives from Atlantaen business, industry, military and Intelligence. They rule over a small island country, trying to move up in the world. They ask to be taken to meet with you, the leadership of Poland, at the palace.

They tell you, Marshal Smigley, with his closest aides, ministers and officers: we have secretly designed, manufactured and stockpiled advanced military equipment, and we offer them to you for defense of Poland from any attack by Hitler and or Stalin. On our home island are warehouses, hangers, fields, garages and parking lots full of vehicles that can drive over virtually any terrain; automatic pistols, submachine guns, rifles; heavy multi-barrelled machine guns and automatic cannons for use against both armour and aircraft; rocket launchers and rockets packed with high explosives; shaped-charge "rocket guns"; man-portable artillery with no recoil; advanced communications and electronic warfare suites; jet aircraft; aircraft that can take-off and land vertically and hover in mid-air; night-vision equipment; instruments for detecting and tracking aircraft and ships; even radio-guided shore-launched anti-ship "flying torpedoes."

You, the Polish high council, take a keen interest in the strange Islanders' military capabilities and ask many penetrating questions. You are naturally skeptical that such a poor black island in the carribean has secretly developed the most powerful military. Atlantis is known as a tourist vacation party destination and off-shore bank; the only thing Atlantaens know how to make is delicious drinks. The Islanders invite you the Poles to assemble a delegation of top officers to return with Zayed and his henchmen to Atlantis right away and be shown their military equipment first-hand. You readily agree and send your most trusted staff to evaluate the Atlantaens outlandish claims.

A few days later the Poles land at an airstrip on a private island owned by Zayed. The islanders immediately plop the Poles into some trucks and cars mounted with an array of single and multi-barrelled .50 calibre 12.7 mm and 14.5 mm heavy machine guns, 57 mm automatic cannons, and even rocket launchers. They drive all over the island doing donuts and having races in the sand dunes. The Atlantaens beam from ear to ear with delight at seeing the Poles' astonishment with the off-road capabilities of their vehicles, and the firepower of their guns. The Atlantaens encourage the Poles to have target practice on armoured hulks set-up in the field, and to fire volleys across the water into the rich green jungles carpeting the towering peaks and hills of offshore outlying islands and outcroppings; they even brought around some radio-controlled drone planes and boats to shoot at.

For days the Atlantaens shove automatic rifles, pistols and machine guns into the Poles' hands and make them drive around shooting into the forest and into the ocean. They gave them "rocket guns," a disposable single-shot tube armed with a shaped-charge rocket warhead, as well as a rechargable launcher which could be re-loaded again and again. The Poles were really having fun now, draped in belts of shiny brass machine guns shells, sawing trees in half with their machine guns and blowing holes through foot-thick thick armour plates with their rocket guns.

The Islanders made a big splash on the Poles with their veritical take-off hovercraft. It was a very strange looking aircraft with a propeller on the top of the craft, and a smaller blade on the tail. It could drop troops and supplies into the middle of a forest, it required no runway. The Poles had a great fun time hopping around in the "hover-planes" with their newfound native buddies. They would drop into a jungle on a remote island and pretend to assault a German or Russian armoured convoy, then have a leisurely smoke with some food and drink, it was really very good times, their morale was very high as the Poles were beginning to feel invincible.

The Atlantaens blew the Poles minds with electronic machines which detected aircraft and ships beyond the horizon. Mounted on a flatbed truck was a curved metal lattice array that looked like a net, or bowl or dish, which rotated around or moved up and down. The array was connected to an analog computer inside of a truck, which in turn was hooked to a command and control vehicle outfitted with video displays showing the location, altitude and heading of every aircraft and ship in the area. The Polish electronics experts in the party were fascinated by the Atlantaens computers and their description of cavity-magnetron-generated millimeter waves for communications, missile guidance and aircraft-ship detection. The devices could also be plugged into computers which connected to a control box which guided the 57mm auto-cannons, effectively increasing their tactical anti-aircraft range to over 12,000 feet

The Poles were treated to a demonstration of an electronically guided flying bomb; it was a torpedo with wings, with a solid-fueled rocket motor in back and a guidance, target detection-acquisition-homing suite in the nose. It was fired from a rail-rack mounted on the back of a truck chassis, guided to the target ship or building by a microwave beam fired from a jet aircraft, and controlled and tracked by on-shore computers.

The Poles watched the operation in amazement from the ground and from the sky in fighter, command-and-control, communications and electronic warfare jet aircraft. The Atlantaens let the poles push all the buttons that activated the control-guide microwave beam from the aircraft and launched the missiles from the shore. They conducted an operation with multiple on and offshore targets representing German and Soviet fixed-installations and ships. The Poles got quite a great kick out this.

The Atlantaens dumps of ammunition and equipment amounts to two thousand all-terrain trucks and cars mounted with 12.7mm, 14.5mm, and 57mm heavy machine guns, auto-cannons, rocket launchers and recoilless anti-tank artillery; a squadron of about 20 fighter-bomber, command, control, communications and Electronic Warfare jets; About a dozen gunship attack and transport hovercraft; About 100 flying anti-ship cruise bombs; Several of the microwave-beam anti-aircraft-anti-ship detection and missile guidance kits; analog computer trucks; radio trucks and cars; electronic warfare trucks; One hundred thousand automatic rifles, and tens of thousands of 9mm submachine guns and automatic pistols; rocket guns and shaped charge warheads; field radios; flak jackets; uniforms; medical supplies, morphine, cocaine, anaesthetic, sterilization equipment and surgical tools.

The Poles readily agree to help Atlantis ship the materiel to Poland at once. However the Atlantaens have few soldiers, their army is largely ceremonial, and can only send a few advisors and professional soldiers to fight with the Poles, their role will mainly be as advisors and trainers to the Poles in showing them the use of the equipment. The decision in how to distribute and arrange the equipment amongst Poland`s military is up to you.

As Poland you must decide how you will secretly place the pieces given to you by Atlantis. What units from the Polish Order of Battle will get the equipment, will you create new units, will you keep them in reserve, will you distribute them evenly along the front or concentrate them in an independent division, what is your strategy.
 
I agree, make the commies nightmare of the 20's come true. Offer Hitler an alliance against the USSR with the advanced arms as the carrot and ask only to be allowed to reoccupy the lands of the Ukraine we formerly held and some ports on the Baltic to replace the loss of Danzig.Together ,along with Italy, Spain ,Hungry,Bulgaria and Romania we can crush the Soviet beast in its cradle.
 
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Hello thanks for your replies, I am redirecting to ASB forum:

https://www.alternatehistory.com/discussion/showthread.php?p=5006118#post5006118

But I want to reply to the German-Polish alliance:

The Atlantaens want to topple Hitler, and would not support an alliance with Hitler against Russia. Reported the Polish officers who travelled to Atlantis and were trained at clandestine island bases there as guests of Zayed: the Islanders would not join an alliance with Hitler against Stalin, in fact the Atlantaens were raising a secret paramilitary army of fanatical anti-Nazi and anti-Stalinist German, Austrian, Czechoslovakian, Ukrainian, and Hungarian exiles, Jews, even ethnic nationalist dissidents who fled the Pilsudski regime and had political arrest warrants for them in Poland. Zayed wanted to bring about 2,000 of them to Poland as private security for Atlantaean military assets; arms, ammunition and supply dumps disguised as commercial warehouses and storage facilities; communications, command-and-control, and electronic warfare fixed installations disguised as commercial radio stations; as bodyguards for Atlantaen businessmen and diplomats who were all Atlantaen military officers and intelligence agents; and as advisors to Polish officers especially those in clandestine roles like the garrison at Westerplate and combat engineer and Army Reserve Sublieutenant (or 2LT) Konrad Guderski and Alfons Flisykowski and others, who helped organize the official and volunteer security staff at the Polish Post Office in Danzig, and prepare them for eventual hostilities.

The Island companies who built the gun trucks and arms are shipping them to sheds at the Gdynia port and to hangers at Warsaw Airport, facilities owned by Atlantaen corporations, built by Atlantaen money by Atlantaen front companies using Polish construction companies under the auspices of "economic development;" "foreign aid, foreign investment, job creation," and but really these privately-owned warehouses and parking lots were supposed to be secret Atlantaen military bases, guarded by Zayed's army of European exiles, and their Atlantaen commanders.

The Poles would not receive the arms wholesale until Germany or USSR start hostilities.
 
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