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Did I miss some info about why in WF/EF in the OOB editor there are listings for Russia and Soviets, and in RS for Russia/Soviets and for Red China and Chicoms? Arn't these the same things?

ORIGINAL: dpappert

Did I miss some info about why in WF/EF in the OOB editor there are listings for Russia and Soviets, and in RS for Russia/Soviets and for Red China and Chicoms? Arn't these the same things?

Russians work as the Allied player.

Soviets work as the Axis player.

Jason Petho

Ok.  But what about the one for Red China and Chicoms?  Which is Axis and which is Allied?

The Chicoms are Axis, meaning you can pit them against the Nationalist Chinese.  Red China is Allied, meaning you can pit them against the Japanese.

My Americentric view of history is Russia is pre WWII and Soviet is post WWII, Chicoms coexisted with the Nationalist while fighting Japan and became Red China after WWII.
 
So I would have made Russia and Chicoms Allied and Soviet and Red China axis for post WWII battles.

It was Russia pre-revolution, during ww1.  It was Soviets after that.  Soviets were allies during ww2 and Russia, as a country, didn't exist.  "Russia" shouldn't even be in the game.  Red China as a country didn't exist until after ww2, about 1948 iirc. 

Gee, junk2drive, now that I think about it, I see your point.  It seems to work the way it is, but it does make sense your way.  Of course, I'm Americentrist, too, I guess ....
 
 

It's possible not a lot of thought went into the nomenclature.  Maybe would could make some suggestions for a name-change for 1.04? 
 
Regarding Communist China, maybe just PLA (Axis) and PLA (Allied).
 
Regarding the Soviets, perhaps just Soviets (Axis) and Soviets (Allied).
 
These aren't very original.
 
There were other countries that effectively fought on both sides -- Roumania, Italy, Bulgaria, Albania.