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Gary Grigsby’s War in the East: The German-Soviet War 1941-1945 is a turn-based World War II strategy game stretching across the entire Eastern Front. Gamers can engage in an epic campaign, including division-sized battles with realistic and historical terrain, weather, orders of battle, logistics and combat results.

The critically and fan-acclaimed Eastern Front mega-game Gary Grigsby’s War in the East just got bigger and better with Gary Grigsby’s War in the East: Don to the Danube! This expansion to the award-winning War in the East comes with a wide array of later war scenarios ranging from short but intense 6 turn bouts like the Battle for Kharkov (1942) to immense 37-turn engagements taking place across multiple nations like Drama on the Danube (Summer 1944 – Spring 1945).

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Why are numbers formated as text? Left aligned and no commas, makes larger numbers difficult to read.
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I agree, there should be thousand separators, possibly dependent on the OS' setting if not too much work.

Also on that note, would be cool if we could choose the format of dates based on our locale, the US/British date standard is confusing to us euros :) - we use day/month/year. Also hope the game uses the metric system for distance etc but thats not all that important :)
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We. or some of us, also use year-month-day. 2010-08-23 is equal to 8/23-10

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Crazy danes [8|][:D]

Well more reason to use the OS locale for dates I guess :)
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We British are European too! [:)] I will put your suggestion into the development forums to see if it flies, but don't get your hopes up.

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And we def use Day/Month/Year! The US is on its own with the wierd Month/Day thing:)
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I thought that the rest of the world would have figured out by now the we, the Americans and God's gift to humanity, are always right. Especially in the way that we format our dates and times[8|][:D],  I say go with the local OS.
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Since we're talking numbers, please use correct German calibres und equipment descriptions. There was no such thing like a 88 mm antiaircraft gun. Instead it was labeled 8,8 cm Flak or simply "Acht-Acht". [;)]
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Right justifying numbers has been on the suggestions list for some time.
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ORIGINAL: Lützow

Since we're talking numbers, please use correct German calibres und equipment descriptions. There was no such thing like a 88 mm antiaircraft gun. Instead it was labeled 8,8 cm Flak or simply "Acht-Acht". [;)]

We are sticking with millimeters for everything so just forget it.
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