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First of all, great game! I spent about three hours with the first tutorial last night and it was a lot of fun. I have to admit it seemed a little easier than I expected but I guess that's why it's a tutorial mission. Plus, I will also try to play it with axis reinforcements enabled...

Now on to a comment that might seem somewhat pedantic, as they have to do with map names.

First, the "Yef Alamanas". The first word, "Yef" is an abbreviation of the word "Yefyra" or "Gefyra" which means bridge (e.g. http://www.gefyra.gr). The second word, "Alamanas" is genitive for "Alamana", which is the name of the village by the bridge (a famous village from the 1821 Greek war of independence). So the village name should be "Alamana", not "Yef Alamanas" and the bridge name should be "Alamana bridge".

Anyway again this might seem pedantic, but to a greek-speaking person, it looks kind of weird [:)]

ORIGINAL: suleo
....to a greek-speaking person, it looks kind of weird

Its all Greek to me [:D]

suleo,
 
Welcome and thanks for your comments.
 
Now where were you when we were editing those map names? [;)]

[:)]

Actually, I can spend some time going through all the maps and checking the names and compile an errata list if you like...

suleo,
 
That would be terrific. Thank you.

One thing to remember though, we generally try and use the name that was in use at that time - ie 1940/1, rather than any name in current use.

To add to what Dave said, we generally took the names that were printed on our source maps. The British were using reprints of older Greek survey maps so most of the features have Greek names - this is probably the case for Yef Alamanas. Would I be right in guessing that it translates to "the bridge of Alamana"?

Yes, that's exactly what it translates to. Alamana is the village name which is right to the north of the bridge.

In addition, the names haven't changed much since 40/41 . Plus, I will mostly be looking for misspellings (I've alread found a couple, e.g. LoutrakioN as opposed to LoutrakioU in the Corinth scenario) plus things like the Alamana bridge above.

Good stuff. Some of our source maps were these dreadful brown-and-black things (that's right, only two colours) that were so faded it could be very hard to tell what they were depicting. It doesn't surprise me that we got some of the names a little wrong, thanks for helping out!