Workshop

### Tactical Overview

* **Top Gear:** Ore gathered by Karzelek carts and Roma are sent in these workshops, to be processed into materials which could be built into the Home Army's own vehicles. This is also where the Wojtek Division's vehicles are stored in case of emergencies.

* **Burnout:** As these workshops serve a major role in the Home Army's mechanized assault capabilities, their enemies are quick to sabotage their production by destroying them.

### Background

Who said that bears and horses can't work together? Only in the Home Army you can see such a thing, although not in the ecological sense. While the Freedom Riders are unmatched in their capability to ambush slower enemies at lightning-speed, their lack of more powerful firearms other than anti-tank rifles and horse-carried light artillery forces them restricts them to attacking weaker Soviet positions. Meanwhile, the armoured vehicles (and ursine warriors) of the Wojtek Division complement their cavalier brothers perfectly by providing hard-hitting firepower against more impenetrable Soviet tank divisions. Due to their armour, they are best deployed against enemy bases too difficult to crack with only cavalry. Riding to the fray only in emergencies, the presence of the Wojteks' in the battlefield is enough to unsettle even the most hardened commissar.

This means that the Wojteks' vehicles must be manufactured and maintained at places with the most resouces and the least suspicion. Being comprised of armored cars, bears and tanks, acquiring the prerequisite materials, fuel, and ammunition for such a battalion is quite a Herculean task for an army that *mostly* uses horses in battle. While all these can be pilfered from Soviet factories by friendly Romani, even then their own **Workshops** are undermanned, ensuring that it would take months before even a Kubus can be rolled out of the assembly line. This fact is not without good reason, as the KGB have begun to hunt down for the creators of these mechanical monstrosities that has claimed too many a Hammer tank.

In hopes of recruiting more potential workers, the Home Army is now undertaking a campaign to rescue as many laborers as they can from Soviet factories. Thanks to the chilling rumors surrounding those workplaces devoid of worker saftety they heard through the grapevine, the HAF now has a tool to sway grumbling workers to their side. Many those who took their offers of escape were helped by saboteurs, with the added effect of dealing a black eye against the Red Army's production output of vehicles. Most of these workers can now be found aiding the production of one of the most dangerous mechanized divisions in Eastern Europe, albeit one without the hammer and sickle.

However, not all is right with the state of these workers, as the latter say. While the workshops are by far safer than their former workshops, some of them say that the greater Home Army has not done enough when it comes to their rights. They claim that their creations are also of strategic importance to the HAF as horses are, yet they get minimal salary for their craft. Now that they've turned traitor against the Soviets, their former employers are now out for their blood, now that they are now responsible for the Wojteks' vehicular prowess. The same employers that paid them graciously for their services while these laborers are still undeelr them. While that opinion is still unpopular among them as of now, the Home Army responded to these claims by moving their jobs to the more inconspicuous workshops. Once they start making these claims, the easier it is for the enemy to mesmerize them once again after all.