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Kleves? A small city named Kleve, hmm ok, I guess...
Duchies?
Palatinate?? Ahhh, "Pfalz" or "Kurpfalz" if electoral.


and,
shouldnt "Hesse" be "Hessen",
"Hanover" be "Hannover",
"Wittenburg" be "Wittenberg"?

 
Most of these are not errrors at all.  They are cases where the correct English name is used.  "Hesse" is English for Hessen, "Hanover" is English for Hannover, and "Palatinate" is English for Pfalz.  I think most of your errors are simply cases of using the correct English spelling for various palces.  You may not like how these places are spelled using the English language, but that's what they are.
 
Wittenburg is of course wrong, and English speakers (espeacially Americans IMHO) generally have all sorts of trouble with "berg" endings in German.  That's the only one comparable to the "Cuidad" abomination.  And "Kleve" is "Cleves" in English, so that is wrong too.

ORIGINAL: Roads

Kleves? A small city named Kleve, hmm ok, I guess...
Duchies?
Palatinate?? Ahhh, "Pfalz" or "Kurpfalz" if electoral.


and,
shouldnt "Hesse" be "Hessen",
"Hanover" be "Hannover",
"Wittenburg" be "Wittenberg"?

Most of these are not errors at all.  They are cases where the correct English name is used.  "Hesse" is English for Hessen, "Hanover" is English for Hannover, and "Palatinate" is English for Pfalz.  I think most of your errors are simply cases of using the correct English spelling for various palces.  You may not like how these places are spelled using the English language, but that's what they are.

Wittenburg is of course wrong, and English speakers (espeacially Americans IMHO) generally have all sorts of trouble with "berg" endings in German.  That's the only one comparable to the "Cuidad" abomination.  And "Kleve" is "Cleves" in English, so that is wrong too.

You are mixing things together, repeating me and missing my point. May be my fault, as I didnt write too clearly. But my point was, to leave things as they are and not to nitpick [;)] .

I stated the first group for their alieness to someone coming from this country. Ok, this may be hard to see, it was supposed to have a hint of irony. The second group , yes, these I thought of as simple errors, 2 of which werent. And yes, I had a notion of Hanover beeing Hannover, thank you very much.
And as already stated, my point was to leave things as they are, as it is a huge and difficult task to make everybody happy.

As an aside. I allways thought "ei" (which almost regularly is turned to "ie") was THE major problem in translating german to english. The pronounciation of german "ei" is very close to "ie" in english. You cant imagine how that hurts the eye [;)]. Weirdest thing I have seen once was Manstein written as Munstien, THAT hurts.

Now I will get back at you: Woschingten [:D].

Norden

I'm going on a sailing trip starting 1st week in December. I will be taking my laptop, and will be at sea for about 2 weeks. Any chance I can have a copy of EiANW to take with me to while away the boring hours?

Yeah, I'm going on a sailing trip in December too and need a copy of this game.  Yeah, I'm going on a sailing trip with my....wife, Morgan Fairchild.....Yeah, that's the ticket.

Marshall,
 
Is this possibly going to be something I can ask for as a Christmas present?

ORIGINAL: crenfrow

Marshall,

Is this possibly going to be something I can ask for as a Christmas present?

Well, there's a Christmas in every year.... [:D]

ORIGINAL: Oleg Mastruko

ORIGINAL: crenfrow

Marshall,

Is this possibly going to be something I can ask for as a Christmas present?

Well, there's a Christmas in every year.... [:D]

Yes and the question is how many more Christmasses will we have to wait for.[:(]

Camile was, as usual, absolutely right. The problem with "Cuidad" Rodrigo is not a language one. Is one of a mistake one that show a negative impresion about the historic or geographical value of the game. And those are very importan questions in an historical simulation game as Empires in Arms always pretended to be. When it was a boxed, paper game, you have to live with that. Now, in the software world, is only a question of things being well made.

Nevertheless, i am very pleased in the view of playing these game soon. As i have written before: "Empires in Arms is the greatest pleasure i've had with men"

ORIGINAL: Archiduque
"Empires in Arms is the greatest pleasure i've had with men"

And hopefully the only one. [;)][:D]

ORIGINAL: Ursa MAior

ORIGINAL: Archiduque
"Empires in Arms is the greatest pleasure i've had with men"

And hopefully the only one. [;)][:D]

Yeah, you've understood the sarcasm [:D] That is the only one

Good, now I can go back to the Blue Oyster. [;)]

Hello all:
 
I think I can get this out before "A" Christmas BUT probably not this Christmas!
Have you ever tried any PBEM testing with 7 people? It's easier to herd cats. This is not a slam against the testers BUT schedules this time of the year (including mine) are tough!
 
HAPPY THANKSGIVING
 
Thank you
 

ORIGINAL: Marshall Ellis

Hello all:

I think I can get this out before "A" Christmas BUT probably not this Christmas!

That reminds me of a joke:
My landlord told me I had two days to pay the rent. I said "Ok I'll take Christmas and Easter."

ORIGINAL: Marshall Ellis

Hello all:

I think I can get this out before "A" Christmas BUT probably not this Christmas!
Have you ever tried any PBEM testing with 7 people? It's easier to herd cats. This is not a slam against the testers BUT schedules this time of the year (including mine) are tough!

HAPPY THANKSGIVING

Thank you

Then you must not pay your playtesters. Schedule problems like you are refering to would only be happening because the playtesting is being done by volunteers around their regular jobs.

You're right, these guys are priceless! We couldn't pay them what they're worth!
 
Thank you
 

Many things here are priceless, I would include the whinges of those who don't remember it taking 4 years in the old days to get enough players together to start a game of empire in arms only to find that mice had eaten Napoleon[8|] 

ORIGINAL: Marshall Ellis

I think I can get this out before "A" Christmas BUT probably not this Christmas!

If it is so then someone is not doing his/her job properly. Since I dont know a damm* about PC game development, therefore I dont say it is you, but you are also on that list.

God, stop hounding the man for God's sake. You will have your game, until then SHUT UP!

The fact that you would speak so disrespectfully to someone else over a video game is absurd, and says nothing good about your personality.

What? Is everyone on this board 15 years old? They can't find some other focus for their life for a few months?

I have Medieval Total War II now, so the boat trip will not be all boredom and high seas. Plus Europa Universalis III will be out in Jan, so I'll have something to play when I get back. Perhaps some of the more whiney EiA players should pick those up (or even EU2 which makes a fairly decent napoleonics game, even if it doesn't have all of the battle flavour of EiA, however it does go back to 1419 and on to 1820).

I've seen the TV ads for Medieval Total War II. How is that game? Give us a Review, eh? [:D]