SilesiaWW15

In the forest north of the deserted town of Chotebor, next to a lake, is a camp maintained by a band of Marauders. Made up of a mix of deserters from the Soviet, Czechoslovak, West and East German and American armies, the Marauders account for about 65 men with another 120 camp followers, mostly made up of their servants, wives, husbands and children.

The Marauders call themselves the East Bohemian Autonomous Defense Force. They are led by a former Czech dissident who calls herself The Protector - her real name is Zdislava Sládková. They claim to be fighting for an independent non-communist Czechoslovakia, but this is really just a front, although Zdislava's pre-war anti-communist activism makes it credible. The officers of the Defense Force are based in an old holiday villa by the lakeside - the others camp in tents and a few ruined outbuildings of the villa, and a pair of parked buses that have been brought to a rest in the yard of the villa and cannibalised. They fly a flag showing a mother goose and two goslings, derived from a medieval religious dissident's banner.

65 MARAUDERS: Armed with AKMs, FN FALs and M4s. 1-3 reloads each. They also have 3 PKM machineguns, two mounted on the windows of the villa and one on the roof of one of the buses, and have 12 ammo belts for them.

They maintain an industrial still in the basement of a ruined barn and keep three pickup trucks. The machineguns are often mounted on the pickup trucks.

The Protector is respected and feared among the other Marauder bands operating in north Bohemia. Although she is not recognised as a leader, smaller groups usually avoid attacking her forces and she has sometimes lead larger groups of Marauders. Her plan is to overcome the Czech forces under General Korinek and displace him as the chief military power in the area. She tells herself that she would institute a democratic government, but she is in denial about the extent to which her followers would allow self-government of the people they control. She may ask PCs to assist her, and will even go so far as to promise them a place in her future government.