newbie in wargames needing advices! (cross-posted from Matrix Games General Discussio

SPWaW is a tactical squad-level World War II game on single platoon or up to an entire battalion through Europe and the Pacific (1939 to 1945).

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jorlando
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newbie in wargames needing advices! (cross-posted from Matrix Games General Discussio

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Hi! I'm a newbie in wargames... I didn't played one until SPWAW... the closest to a wargame that I was before, was when I used to play a cardboard game called WAR, that was very popular here in Brazil (very similar to the game RISK). I also don't have any military experience, so terms like OOB seem arcane to me.

Since I think to translate SPWAW to Portuguese, I'll need these terms, to correlate them to the Portuguese equivalent, and I need to learn them to play better :-)

So, in short, were can I find such type of information? There is something like a military glossary of terms and acronyms?

And what should I read to sharpen my strategic skills? I played the tutorial and managed to destroy the German forces in 13 turns... it was a decive victory, but I used more brute force than strategy, so I lost many units in the process...

I also heard that military use to play wargames to learn tatics and combat strategies... SPWAW is one of these games?

Sorry for the long post and bad English :-)

Thanks for you attention!
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Hi, welcome. OOB (order of Battle) a list of units involved in a combat. When I need to find info on a subject I use the internet. www.yahoo.com type in what it is you are looking for and it does a search of the web, then posts all the sites it found what you entered in. Browse them and learn. Have fun
try going to yahoo and entering "Military terms"

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Post by MECH ENGINEER »

Hold tight your english that bad. There a bunch of players from Brazil and all over South America on this message board. Just put out a message in Portuguese they'll be contacting you. I'm quite surprised they have not already. Check out this message board often.

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