Unit Descriptions: Air, Naval, Land

[jesperpehrson]

A German AT-Gun by Stabilo

[jesperpehrson]

A German ART

[jesperpehrson]

A submission of my own. I would like to consider changing the name on the counter to fit the actual name of the General. Anyway any comments on any of the writeups are welcome.



Ooops spotted an error myself "where they surrendered" and nothing else. Corrected in the file.

[Froonp]

ORIGINAL: capitan

A submission of my own. I would like to consider changing the name on the counter to fit the actual name of the General. Anyway any comments on any of the writeups are welcome.

We'd better Keep Vlassov, as Russian spelling can vary a lot depending on who made the translation. I see that a lot with Russian pilots names, where you find the same pilot with different spellings in various sources.

For instance, in France it is spelled "Andreï Andreïevitch Vlassov" (http://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andre%C3%AF_Vlassov).
Here "Andrey Andreyevich Vlasov or Wlassow (Russian: Андрéй Андрéевич Влáсов)" (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andrey_Vlasov)

[Fishbed]

Technically speaking, "Vlasov" does respect the equivalent letters in cyrillics - but then you have to forget about pronunciation. If you want the right pronunciation, then we have to go for "Vlassov".

I suppose we should check every Russian names and try to find somekind of rule which may apply to all of thems, right? Do you plan to write Jukov (correct spelling) or Zhukov (correct pronunciation) for instance?

[jesperpehrson]

Good points, lets not go there [X(]

[Froonp]

ORIGINAL: Fishbed

Technically speaking, "Vlasov" does respect the equivalent letters in cyrillics - but then you have to forget about pronunciation. If you want the right pronunciation, then we have to go for "Vlassov".

I suppose we should to check every Russian names and try to find somekind of rule which may apply to all of thems, right? Do you plan to write Jukov (correct spelling) or Zhukov (correct pronunciation) for instance?

Russians HQ are spelled this way in WiF FE :

Zhukov
Rokossovsky
Chemychev.
Timoshenko
Yeremenko
Koniev
Vatutin

[Fishbed]

Yes. Then Vlassov it has to be apparently [:)]

Froonp by the way do you think the game in itself will be easy to mod and to turn into another language, like for instance... French? ([:D])

[Froonp]

ORIGINAL: Fishbed
Froonp by the way do you think the game in itself will be easy to mod and to turn into another language, like for instance... French? ([:D])

Well, I don't know.
I for one prefer to have it in English, this avoids the translation problems that you inevitably have in the rulebook.

[Shannon V. OKeets]

ORIGINAL: Fishbed

Yes. Then Vlassov it has to be apparently [:)]

Froonp by the way do you think the game in itself will be easy to mod and to turn into another language, like for instance... French? ([:D])

Mercifully, that is not my problem.

All text strings in the game that appear in messages are placed in a separate DLL file by the compiler. That enables someone (not me) to translate them into another language and then simply replace one DLL. Though that list of text strings includes all city names, it doesn't really address a lot of other places where text appears, such as the names of units. And then there is the question of how large a footprint each text string makes on the screen and whether there is sufficient room for it to be fully visible.

[jesperpehrson]

Status-report on Landunits (all countries):
705 out of 1062 units done (67%)

DONE:
Siberian Russia 4/4 (Adam) DONE!
Finland 8/8 (Adam) DONE!
Rumania 10/10 (Adam) DONE!
Mongolia 1/1 (Adam) DONE!
Switzerland 6/6 (Adam) DONE!
Phillipines 1/1 (Adam) DONE!
Afghanistan 2/2 (Adam) DONE!
Australia 8/8 (Michaelbaldur) DONE!
New Zeeland 3/3 (Michaelbaldur) DONE!
South Africa 5/5 (Michaelbaldur) DONE!
Denmark 1/1 (Michaelbaldur) DONE!
Norway 3/3 (Michaelbaldur) DONE!
Poland 14/14 (Michaelbaldur) DONE!
AOI 1/1 (Mziln) DONE!
Croatia 1/1 (Capitan) DONE!
Ecuador 1/1 (Capitan) DONE!
Peru 1/1 (Capitan) DONE!
French Somalia 1/1 (Capitan) DONE!
Ivory Coast 1/1 (Capitan) DONE!
French Sudan 1/1 (Capitan) DONE!
Senegal 1/1 (Capitan) DONE!
Middle Congo 1/1 (Capitan) DONE!
Niger 1/1 (Capitan) DONE!
Indo-China 1/1 (Capitan) DONE!
N. East Indies 2/2 (Capitan) DONE!
Belgian Congo 1/1 (Capitan) DONE!
Saudi Arabia 1/1 (Capitan) DONE!
Iraq 2/2 (Capitan) DONE!
Liberia 1/1 (Capitan) DONE!
Cameroon 1/1 (Capitan) DONE!
Gabon 1/1 (Capitan) DONE!
Madagascar 1/1 (Capitan) DONE!
Morroco 1/1 (Capitan) DONE!
Algeria 2/2 (Capitan) DONE!
Tunisia 1/1 (Capitan) DONE!
Syria 2/2 (Capitan) DONE!
Sudan 1/1 (Capitan) DONE!
Nigeria 2/2 (Capitan) DONE!
Sierra Leone 1/1 (Capitan) DONE!
British Somalialand 1/1 (Capitan) DONE!
Egypt 2/2 (Capitan) DONE!
Kenya 1/1 (Capitan) DONE!
Uganda 1/1 (Capitan) DONE!
Tanganyika 1/1 (Capitan) DONE!
Northern Rhodesia 1/1 (Capitan) DONE!
Southern Rhodesia 1/1 (Capitan)
Palestine 1/1 (Capitan) DONE!
Aden 1/1 (Capitan) DONE!
New Caledonia 1/1 (Capitan) DONE!
Sweden 13/13 (Toed) DONE!
Ireland 2/2 (bj_rodhe) DONE!
Hungary 6/6 (Grisouille) DONE!
Bulgaria 3/3 (Grisouille) DONE!
France 68/68(Grisouille)DONE
Greece 4/4 (Grisouille) DONE!
SS-Germany 19/19 (Grisouille) DONE!
Netherlands 2/2 (Grisouille) DONE!
Yugoslavia 9/9 (Dale) (DONE!)
Bolivia 1/1 (Jeff) (DONE!)
Paraguay 1/1 (Jeff) (DONE!)
Colombia 1/1 (Jeff) (DONE!)
Zoya and Tito 2/2 (MarcusWatney) (DONE!)

ASSIGNED but NOT DONE:
USA 50/99 (Adam)
Russia 125/146 (Adam)
Ukraine 0/8 (Adam)
Communist China 16/18 (Wosung)
Nat. China 34/38 (Wosung)
Korea 0/2 (Wosung)
Manchuko 0/4 (Wosung)
Formosa 0/1 (Wosung)
Italy 22/61 (Jimm)
Libya 0/3 (Jimm)
Eritrea 0/1 (Jimm)
Italian Somalialand 0/2 (Jimm)
Burma 1/2 (Capitan)
Germany 92/128 (Capitan)
Thailand 0/1 (Capitan)
Northern Ireland 0/1 (Capitan)
Belgium 0/4 (BredsjöMagnus)
UK 31/57 (Rob)
Canada 9/10 (Rob)
India 3/13 (Rob)
Brasil 0/5 (Jeff)
Argentina 0/3 (Jeff)
Mexico 0/6 (Jeff)
Panama 0/2 (Jeff)
Venezuela 0/1 (Jeff)
Uruguay 0/1 (Jeff)
Chile 0/2 (Jeff)
Japan 64/76 (Mziln)
Iran/Persia 0/2 (Herulf)
Portugal 0/2 (Doug)
Turkey 1/13 (Doug)
Austria 0/3 (SGT Rice)
Ethiopia 1/6 (SGT Rice)

UNASSIGNED:
Nat. Spain 2/14
Rep. Spain 1/14
Czeckoslovakia 1/15

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"NEW UNITS" 13/61

Also the ART (including ART, AA and AT) for all nations is being done by STABILO

Anyone who like to pitch in with any of the unassigned countries is welcome to take part! Just send me a PM and I will help you get started!

- Capitan

[jesperpehrson]

Mziln is confirmed for doing the Japanese.

Anyone interested in taking up the reins for Turkey, Persia or Portugal?

[SGT Rice]

I'll volunteer. Do you have a list/instructions?

Guess I should read the instructions; PM enroute.

[jesperpehrson]

PM recieved and answered!

[jesperpehrson]

MarcusWatney: You have not enabled PMs or somesuch so I cannot respond to your PM.

This is what I replied:

"You are more than welcome to Zoya and Tito!

As for the naval writeups I direct you to Steve as I have no idea about them.

- Jesper"

[Shannon V. OKeets]

ORIGINAL: capitan

MarcusWatney: You have not enabled PMs or somesuch so I cannot respond to your PM.

This is what I replied:

"You are more than welcome to Zoya and Tito!

As for the naval writeups I direct you to Steve as I have no idea about them.

- Jesper"

Marcus, just in case you didn't receive my PM:

I received your PM and replied to it. Could send me your email address? That is a better way to handle communications on unit writeups.
SHokanson@HawaiianTel.net

[herulf]

Hi all!

As a long time lurker I'd like to collaborate a bit in this great project trying to do the writeups of Persia.

any suggestion on how to start?

[Mziln]

ORIGINAL: herulf

Hi all!

As a long time lurker I'd like to collaborate a bit in this great project trying to do the writeups of Persia.

any suggestion on how to start?

Go to your browser (Yahoo, Google, or what you use) search for: Persia armies ww2

Wikipedia will show that Persia had 9 Divisions during the Anglo-Soviet invasion of Iran (Persia) August 25, 1941 - September 17, 1941.

How you find out how these 9 Divisions were organized into corps or armies is now up to you.

When you do a writeup:

Keep it simple and accurate.

DO NOT just cut and paste you will need to rewrite it.

Rough Example:

2nd Army (Dai-ni gun) (Formed on August 23, 1937. Deactivated December 9, 1938 and reactivated July 4, 1942 as part of the Southern Expeditionary Army it was demoblized 1945)

Attached to the 2nd Army in western New Guinea (April-June 1944) were the 35th Infantry Division, 36th Infantry Division, and support units.

[jesperpehrson]

PM sent!

[jesperpehrson]

List on top of this page updated. Both Spains are still not taken nor is Czeckoslovakia. 61% done and going fast forward.

The french are now 100% done (even the "new" units). Thank you very much Grisouille!

Rob is cracking at the UK, Canada and India. He is doing a very nice job as well!

Herulf, Doug, SGT Rice and Marcus are new writers that are most welcome aboard this great undertaking!

As the end is coming ever closer I have been starting to think about how to wrap this all up (it has yet to be discussed with Steve). I am thinking, time willing, that me and a group of the writers spend a month or so this summer going through ALL writeups for errors (factual and spelling) and eventual plagiarism (unintentional or otherwise) to cover all bases.