Scheznyk Field Gun

## Tactical Analysis

* **Lone Wandering Artillery:** Light-sized field guns pulled to battle by trained horses, these serve as the artillery of the HAF, surprisingly doing a lot of anti-air and anti-vehicle damage in a wide area.

* **Pack Up Your Things:** As the size of the emplacement leads to recoil, the horse guns have to be deployed in order to fire. They do deploy and undeploy faster than most artillery, though.

* **Nomad, bro?:** Due to the minimum range the horse guns need to fire effectively, enemies at close range will easily take care of them.

* **Trespassers Will Be Shot:** Thanks to a lucky raid against a Soviet infantry garrison, the Home Army has amassed some assault rifles to be given to the bodyguards when they are deemed worthy enough.

## Background

The previous Home Army preferred light field guns over any other artillery. Despite not as capable of hitting hard as, say, a Katyusha, the Polish rebels have found field guns easier to pack up, deploy, and fire than traditional heavier ones. This fact has proven useful when the Russians, expecting to easily mow down the Polish resistance in 1950, instead found themselves harried by light artillery towed by Polish horses, infantry columns ambushed by fast-riding and fast-firing field guns that disappeared quickly over the horizon, into the forests or over the hills. Even when the Home Army ultimately faltered and got defeated, the large number of infantry and vehicles that fell to these anti-tank artilleries are testaments to the their cost-effectiveness against the Red Army.

Today, it wouldn't be much of a hyperbole to say that Eastern Europe is still *littered* with light field guns. Constructed by the Allies and the Soviets to counteract the tank columns of both sides, an immense number of these artillery still adorn the hundreds of battlefields where the two sides have fought. The original People's Front of Poland, however, claims that these field guns are ironically one of the best Soviet contributions for this country, as these are, indeed, Soviet-manufactured. They innovated the **Scheznyks**, they say, towed by horses to be the artillery that have laid waste to the Reds' tank divisions and infantry columns for eight years now. While they recognize the benefits the Soviets have brought to their country such as free TV, free fuel for cars and free My Little Drony merchandise, their members are very much anti-Stalinist, often raising the question to what the Soviet leadership have ever done for them.

The Polish People's Front, however, are the complete opposite of the PFP. They claim to have *truly* innovated the Scheznyks, they claim, but with (minimal) Allied assistance, instead of indirect Soviet assistance. The PPF sternly rejects anyone and anything even remotely associated with their worst enemies, not hesitating to chew out anyone from the HAF whose views steer ever so slightly to the left. This has led to PPF fighters calling the PFP 'splitters', turncoats who are slowly selling out Poland to the Red Menace.

The feud between the Polish People's Front and the People's Front of Poland is best exemplified by their soldiers attacking each other via drinking contests, fistfights, and if worst comes to worst, competitions about who has the biggest MLD merchandise. Recently, HAF leadership has feared that the two leaders are constantly biting other over slight ideological differences. This feud will definitely play into the Soviets' hands, as their feared Scheznyks wlil slowly be whittled down by in-faction fighting.