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Hi! I'm a newbie in wargames... I didn't played one until SPWAW... the closest to a wargame that I was before, was when I used to play a cardboard game called WAR, that was very popular here in Brazil (very similar to the game RISK). I also don't have any military experience, so terms like OOB seem arcane to me.

Since I think to translate SPWAW to Portuguese, I'll need these terms, to correlate them to the Portuguese equivalent, and I need to learn them to play better

So, in short, were can I find such type of information? There is something like a military glossary of terms and acronyms?

And what should I read to sharpen my strategic skills? I played the tutorial and managed to destroy the German forces in 13 turns... it was a decive victory, but I used more brute force than strategy, so I lost many units in the process...

I also heard that military use to play wargames to learn tatics and combat strategies... SPWAW is one of these games?

Sorry for the long post and bad English

Thanks for you attention!

Hi, welcome. OOB (order of Battle) a list of units involved in a combat. When I need to find info on a subject I use the internet. www.yahoo.com type in what it is you are looking for and it does a search of the web, then posts all the sites it found what you entered in. Browse them and learn. Have fun
try going to yahoo and entering "Military terms"

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Hold tight your english that bad. There a bunch of players from Brazil and all over South America on this message board. Just put out a message in Portuguese they'll be contacting you. I'm quite surprised they have not already. Check out this message board often.

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