Ideas for Land Unit writeups

[pak19652002]

Have you considered embedding a photo in each description, if applicable? When I read "distinctive silhouette", I got curious what this thing looked like.

[Shannon V. OKeets]

ORIGINAL: pak19652002

Have you considered embedding a photo in each description, if applicable? When I read "distinctive silhouette", I got curious what this thing looked like.

Copyrights are a concern.

I might come back to this when I get to adding video. But not now. Matrix has some stuff that we can add in without the copyright concern.

[jesperpehrson]

ORIGINAL: pak19652002

Have you considered embedding a photo in each description, if applicable? When I read "distinctive silhouette", I got curious what this thing looked like.

Then Gary sure succeded with his task! Catching the interest of the readers [:)]

[grab]

I take on board Froonp's comment regarding abbreviations. It is so easy to fall into using them. Thanks for the kind words guys.

Gary

[CBoehm]

If the danish army hasnt been done yet ...then I would like to volunteer??

[jesperpehrson]

ORIGINAL: CBoehm

If the danish army hasnt been done yet ...then I would like to volunteer??

All of it?!?! [X(][X(]

[jesperpehrson]

ORIGINAL: CBoehm

If the danish army hasnt been done yet ...then I would like to volunteer??

On a more serious note you could send me the write-ups for the 2 (?) units and I will format them for you. Please use a similar style to the one I have used for the German units if possible.

[CBoehm]

they have TWO?!?!? ...didnt figure it would be THAT MUCH WORK![X(][8|]

[CBoehm]

on a more serious note...I think minor power unit desciption will have to be a bit different that MP ...I mean the danish army didnt see all that much action and certainly never as a unified corps as such ...so I was more like thinking to give a general desription of the condition of the danish army and what happened on 9th of april 1940 ....or what do you think??

[Froonp]

ORIGINAL: CBoehm

on a more serious note...I think minor power unit desciption will have to be a bit different that MP ...I mean the danish army didnt see all that much action and certainly never as a unified corps as such ...so I was more like thinking to give a general desription of the condition of the danish army and what happened on 9th of april 1940 ....or what do you think??

I like it.
Moreover, in the case of the Danish army, this Reserve MIL corps IS the Danish Army, so describing the Danish Army of April 1940 pretty much describes the MIL reserve corps, isn't it ?

[Toed]

I could do the same for the Swedish army. Writing a general text on how it was organised and enlarged during the war if that would help. However writing anything accurate about any corps sized units will probably not be easy since they didn't exist as such in Sweden during that time to my knowledge. But if someone could send me a list of ingame Swedish units I could give it a try. My guess is that the units changed a bit since I played WiF back in the early 90s.

[jesperpehrson]

ORIGINAL: Toed

I could do the same for the Swedish army. Writing a general text on how it was organised and enlarged during the war if that would help. However writing anything accurate about any corps sized units will probably not be easy since they didn't exist as such in Sweden during that time to my knowledge. But if someone could send me a list of ingame Swedish units I could give it a try. My guess is that the units changed a bit since I played WiF back in the early 90s.

I was already thinking of doing the Swedish [:)] (I am a swede too)

Heja Sverige! [;)]

[jesperpehrson]

ORIGINAL: CBoehm

on a more serious note...I think minor power unit desciption will have to be a bit different that MP ...I mean the danish army didnt see all that much action and certainly never as a unified corps as such ...so I was more like thinking to give a general desription of the condition of the danish army and what happened on 9th of april 1940 ....or what do you think??

Yeah probably you are right. That would probably be the best way to go about it.

[Shannon V. OKeets]

ORIGINAL: capitan

ORIGINAL: Toed
I could do the same for the Swedish army. Writing a general text on how it was organised and enlarged during the war if that would help. However writing anything accurate about any corps sized units will probably not be easy since they didn't exist as such in Sweden during that time to my knowledge. But if someone could send me a list of ingame Swedish units I could give it a try. My guess is that the units changed a bit since I played WiF back in the early 90s.

I was already thinking of doing the Swedish [:)] (I am a swede too)

Heja Sverige! [;)]

How about one of you does the first draft and the other reviews and improves? It would be nice if the content could be spread out over the different units, rather than a long writeup that is duplicated for each unit. By the way, the HQ unit is already done.

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[2686][Gustav V]
.T Aged 81 in 1939, King Gustaf V (Oscar Gustaf Adolf) of Sweden succeeded his father to the
Swedish Throne in December 1907. He was
sympathetic towards Germany through two world wars and since the Swedish model of
government permitted a greater involvement of the
King in determining policy than England or the USA, there was a possibility that Sweden could
have been induced to join the Central
Powers in 1914 or the Axis in 1939.

.P Even though Sweden maintained its neutrality through both World Wars, it did occasionally
assist
the Germans by permitting supplies and troops to move across Sweden into Norway and Finland.
The 7,000 ton Swedish battleship Gustav V
was named in his honor and served in the Swedish Navy from 1921 to 1957 and was finally
scrapped in 1970. King Gustav died in 1950.
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[jesperpehrson]

ORIGINAL: Shannon V. OKeets

ORIGINAL: capitan

ORIGINAL: Toed
I could do the same for the Swedish army. Writing a general text on how it was organised and enlarged during the war if that would help. However writing anything accurate about any corps sized units will probably not be easy since they didn't exist as such in Sweden during that time to my knowledge. But if someone could send me a list of ingame Swedish units I could give it a try. My guess is that the units changed a bit since I played WiF back in the early 90s.

I was already thinking of doing the Swedish [:)] (I am a swede too)

Heja Sverige! [;)]

How about one of you does the first draft and the other reviews and improves? It would be nice if the content could be spread out over the different units, rather than a long writeup that is duplicated for each unit. By the way, the HQ unit is already done.

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[2686][Gustav V]
.T Aged 81 in 1939, King Gustaf V (Oscar Gustaf Adolf) of Sweden succeeded his father to the
Swedish Throne in December 1907. He was
sympathetic towards Germany through two world wars and since the Swedish model of
government permitted a greater involvement of the
King in determining policy than England or the USA, there was a possibility that Sweden could
have been induced to join the Central
Powers in 1914 or the Axis in 1939.

.P Even though Sweden maintained its neutrality through both World Wars, it did occasionally
assist
the Germans by permitting supplies and troops to move across Sweden into Norway and Finland.
The 7,000 ton Swedish battleship Gustav V
was named in his honor and served in the Swedish Navy from 1921 to 1957 and was finally
scrapped in 1970. King Gustav died in 1950.
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I don't mind if Toed does the research. There is enough units for everyone I would love to help with a review though.

[CBoehm]

since the Swedish model of
government permitted a greater involvement of the
King in determining policy than England or the USA

I was not aware that the US had a king?!? [8|]

The 7,000 ton Swedish battleship Gustav V
was named in his honor and served in the Swedish Navy from 1921 to 1957 and was finally
scrapped in 1970. King Gustav died in 1950.

Im in the process of writing the notes on the Swedish navy ...and technically the Gustav V was NOT a battleship ...the english designation (which I also use in my description) is coastal defence ship ...(or also referred to as coastal battleship). Now I dont mind changing the designation, but the same should then be done with most of the other swedish, danish and dutch ships of this type.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sverige_class_battleship

[Froonp]

But if someone could send me a list of ingame Swedish units I could give it a try. My guess is that the units changed a bit since I played WiF back in the early 90s.

[jesperpehrson]

Status report on the German units:

* All INF done
* All HQs done


Remaining work:
* 3 CAV
* 4 PARA
* 2 MAR
* 4 MTN
* 2 ENG
* 13 MIL
* 9 GARR
* 12 MOT
* 8 MECH
* 10 ARM

67 writeups to go! That means that about 40% are done. Right now I think the militia will be the hardest as I cannot find any good information on them (at all really). Anyone have some ideas?

[hazpak]

I sympathise capitan - I also can't find much on the Japanese militias other than they existed. Also the ficticious units (motor and mech inf) are a bit of a mystery as well. I've got a reasonable amount of information on most of the japanese armies but it doesn't come close to the information you have been able to collect for the Germans. Still waiting on books to come out of storage.

How do we intend to approach divisions? treat them as generics or find out about their numbered equivalent?

Haz.
PS anyone know what LG stands for on one of the Japanese marine units? I've looked and have drawn a blank [&:] i'll probably kick myself later.

[CBoehm]

Just tried to see if I could find something on the "LG" for you ...found this page about the Japanese Special Naval Landing Forces ...the SNLF ...maybe you can use it if you havent already found it yourself:
 
http://www.geocities.com/dutcheastindies/SNLF.html