Unit Descriptions: Air, Naval, Land

[Shannon V. OKeets]

2nd and last in series.

And at the other extreme of available material are the units for the countries that were clever/lucky enough to remain neutral throughout the war.

These are by CBoehm.

[Greyshaft]

Hi CBoehm,
Nice work. Just a couple of points.
In the description for CA Aran you use the expression "for and aft". I think it is spelt "fore and aft".
In the following sentence you refer to "secondary armaments". I think it is usually expressed in the singular ie "secondary armament" (without the 's')

[Froonp]

ORIGINAL: Shannon V. OKeets
I finally finished formating all 1200 of these. The new writeups are being formatted as they are written, so I am out of that business (yay!).

I'd have a comment about the German plane here.
The normal designation of German planes is Fw190A-1 rather than Fw-190A1. It can also be Fw 190A-1.
The dash is between the main model and the sub model.
You should edit these, because it is not very "learned" looking when you read and know it.

[Froonp]

ORIGINAL: Shannon V. OKeets
Here are a couple of writeups from new guys. This one is by Wosung.
(Gee, there seems to be a lot of material on this unit - if you can read Chinese.)

This one is great reading, wow, I'm impressed with all those write ups.

[Neilster]

"Burn all, kill all, confiscate everything". Ok...no more Mr Nice Guy! [:D]

"The enemy advances, we also advance". That's going to lead to a collision.

I love these Asian slogans. I think the combination of an Asian country and Communism must be a slogan writer's paradise. I remember they had one in North Korea recently called "Let's eat two meals!" [:'(]

And how about that Swedish ship? "The Manliness". Crews preferred it to serving on "The Runs Like a Girl" or "The Enjoys Flower Arranging and Amateur Theatre".

A submarine called "The Wolf" is pretty cool though.

Excellent write-ups.

Cheers, Neilster

[Greyshaft]

ORIGINAL: Froonp
The normal designation of German planes is Fw190A-1 rather than Fw-190A1. It can also be Fw 190A-1.
The dash is between the main model and the sub model.

Thanks.
I'll put that on the list of 'must-do' edits

[CBoehm]

ORIGINAL: Greyshaft

Hi CBoehm,
Nice work. Just a couple of points.
In the description for CA Aran you use the expression "for and aft". I think it is spelt "fore and aft".
In the following sentence you refer to "secondary armaments". I think it is usually expressed in the singular ie "secondary armament" (without the 's')

ups the fore and aft ...I knew must have missed that somehow ...secondary armament hmm guess I really should know that one too...I'll correct them ASAP.

Claus

[CBoehm]

ORIGINAL: Neilster

And how about that Swedish ship? "The Manliness". Crews preferred it to serving on "The Runs Like a Girl" or "The Enjoys Flower Arranging and Amateur Theatre".

A submarine called "The Wolf" is pretty cool though.

yeah I thought it would add a bit of color to translate the names.

...reminds me about a novel I read some time ago where there was this great indistructable warship called "The Unsinkeble" ...then after she hit an iceberg and sank the next ship was named "The Unsinkeble II" ...which blew up in an accident ...when the name "Unsinkeble III" was then proposed for the newest warship it was reluctantly turned down ... [8|]

[Shannon V. OKeets]

ORIGINAL: Greyshaft

ORIGINAL: Froonp
The normal designation of German planes is Fw190A-1 rather than Fw-190A1. It can also be Fw 190A-1.
The dash is between the main model and the sub model.

Thanks.
I'll put that on the list of 'must-do' edits

Patrice sent me several guidelines explaining how to abbreviate the air units for different countries, and for some, the branches of the armed forces within a country. I used them for how the abbreviations appear on the units. They're around here somewhere ...[&:]

[jesperpehrson]

ORIGINAL: hazpak

Apologies i was away all weekend and only just back up on the forums i'll pick out a few of the Japanese units and send them in hopefully tonight (my time). But i'm not happy yet with the level of detail I have for them.

Haz.

You can always go back and improve on them at a later date if you wish.

[jesperpehrson]

Status-report on Landunits (all countries):

345 out of 999 units done (35%)

Allies:
USA 19/99 Adam
Russia 122/146 Adam
Siberian Russia 4/4 Adam DONE!
UK 6/57 Jaguar and Max STILL ACTIVE?
France 7/68
Communist China 3/18 (Wosung) STILL ACTIVE?
Nat. China 4/38 (Wosung) STILL ACTIVE?

Axis:
Germany 70/128 (Capitan)
SS-Germany 0/19 (Capitan)
Japan 6/76 (Hazpak) STILL ACTIVE?
Italy 15/61 (Jimm)

Commonwealth countries:
Australia 8/8 (Michaelbaldur) DONE!
New Zeeland 3/3 (Michaelbaldur) DONE!
Canada 1/10 (Michaelbaldur)
India 1/13 (Michaelbaldur)
South Africa 5/5 (Michaelbaldur) DONE!
Burma 0/2
Thailand 0/1
Palestine 0/1
Egypt 0/2
Sudan 0/1
Kenya 0/1
Uganda 0/1
Tanganyika 0/1
Northern Rhodesia 0/1
Southern Rhodesia 0/1
Nigeria 0/2
Sierra Leone 0/1
Indo-China 0/1
Aden 0/1
British Somalialand 0/1
Northern Ireland 0/1

Axis minors:
Finland 8/8 (Adam) DONE!
Hungary 0/6 (Mziln) DONE!
Rumania 10/10 Adam DONE!
Bulgaria 0/3
Croatia 1/1 (Capitan) DONE!
Libya 0/3 (Jimm)
Eritrea 0/1 (Jimm)
Italian Somalialand 0/2 (Jimm)
Ukraine 0/8
AOI 1/1 (Mziln) DONE!


Latin America neutrals:
Mexico 0/6
Panama 0/2
Colombia 0/1
Venezuela 0/1
Ecuador 1/1 (Capitan) DONE!
Peru 1/1 (Capitan) DONE!
Brasil 0/5
Bolivia 0/1
Paraguay 0/1
Uruguay 0/1
Chile 0/2
Argentina 0/3

Japanese colonies:
Korea 0/2
Manchuko 0/4
Formosa 0/1

Russian vassals:
Mongolia 1/1 Adam DONE!

French Colonies:
Syria 0/2
Tunisia 0/1
Algeria 0/2
Morroco 0/1
French Somalia 0/1
Madagascar 0/1
Gabon 0/1
Cameroon 0/1
Ivory Coast 0/1
French Sudan 0/1
Senegal 0/1
Middle Congo 0/1
Niger 0/1

Neutrals:
Iran 0/2
Afghanistan 0/2
Ireland 0/2
Netherlands 0/2 (Hazpak) STILL ACTIVE?
Belgium 0/4 (BredsjöMagnus)
Portugal 0/2
Denmark 1/1 (Michaelbaldur) DONE!
Norway 3/3 (Michaelbaldur) DONE!
Sweden 10/13 (Toed) STILL ACTIVE?
Switzerland 6/6 (Adam) DONE!
Poland 13/14 (Michaelbaldur)
Turkey 1/13
Iraq 2/2 Capitan) DONE!
Saudi Arabia 1/1 (Capitan) DONE!
Nat. Spain 2/14 (Capitan)
Liberia 1/1 (Capitan) DONE!
Greece 0/4
Yugoslavia 1/9
N. East Indies 2/2 (Capitan) DONE!
Belgian Congo 1/1 (Capitan) DONE!


Pre-1939:
Ethiopia 1/6
Rep. Spain 1/14
Czeckoslovakia 1/15
Austria 0/3

The list might have some colonies assigned wrongly.

If anyone has the urge to do the write-ups of a particular country send me a PM. This is very appreciated!

All HQs are done by Greyshaft.

Gary is doing all ART (including AA, AT) for all countries.

If I have forgot someone I appologize.[&o]

[jesperpehrson]

I hope one of the territorials remaining is from Greenland! [:D]

"The population of Greenland was 22.000 in 1939 (20.500 of Danish stock/Danish-Eskimo, 500 Danes, 1000 Eskimos), After the fall of Denmark in April 1940 the administration of Greenland invited US forces to protect the island. Greenlanders created a sledge patrol to inspect the coast line and once such patrol had a combat with Germans from weather station, next day Germany evacuated that station and one man was captured by Greenlanders and lived till the end of WWII in single Greenlandic hotel. German submarine sank Greenlandic fishing ship at sea during the war."

Found on: http://forum.axishistory.com/viewtopic.php?t=97586

[terje439]

ORIGINAL: capitan

I hope one of the territorials remaining is from Greenland! [:D]

"The population of Greenland was 22.000 in 1939 (20.500 of Danish stock/Danish-Eskimo, 500 Danes, 1000 Eskimos), After the fall of Denmark in April 1940 the administration of Greenland invited US forces to protect the island. Greenlanders created a sledge patrol to inspect the coast line and once such patrol had a combat with Germans from weather station, next day Germany evacuated that station and one man was captured by Greenlanders and lived till the end of WWII in single Greenlandic hotel. German submarine sank Greenlandic fishing ship at sea during the war."

Found on: http://forum.axishistory.com/viewtopic.php?t=97586

Funny how the population was Norwegian until the Swedish diplomat forgot to add all the Norwegian controlled Islands to his claim when Sweden gained control of Norway from Denmark. [:D][:D]

[Shannon V. OKeets]

Here are a few more naval unit descriptions. These are from Terje, who has ferretted out more information on South American navies.

[Shannon V. OKeets]

A couple of the Italian big honkers, as reported by Terje.

[Shannon V. OKeets]

3rd and last in the series. I also have some Spanish ships from Eric Osborne (Thrud), that I'll process and post later this morning.

[stretch]

couple of extra "was"-es under the Almirante Grau, one each in the first 2 paragraphs.
 
I really like having this information for the units, it brings extra life to the game.  And I never get tired of looking at the counters.
 
 

[Froonp]

ORIGINAL: stretch
I really like having this information for the units, it brings extra life to the game.  And I never get tired of looking at the counters.

Yeah, moreover, you learn lots of things, I am very pleased with all that !

[Shannon V. OKeets]

Some Spanish ships, courtesy of Eric Osborne (Thrud).

[Shannon V. OKeets]

2nd and last in series.

I know you will be amazed to learn that the British also had a navy in WWII. This writeup comes to us from Graf Zeppelin.