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el cid again -> RE: RHS: Why names of Soviet air units were changed? (10/15/2006 1:33:17 PM)
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There are about 133,000 fields in WITP. After half a year - what was done with a sub set of these is impossible to remember. Surely I wished to "get it right" - and I do remember it was not right. I had some Soviet OB data in rather more detailed form than the game OB - and I attempted to reconcile it with the game units. Perhaps the problem lies in the names I was reading - which were not in Russian - but in English: that means someone had to decide what they should be in English. I have found from time to time that translation is tricky stuff: in this context see the former "Yobo Eki" units of WITP - not quite close enough to the Japanese for me to recognize the term meant was Yobieki" - but eventually I figured it out. The main thing I remember is that there WAS a relationship between the historical document lists and the game units - but it was not very close. I tried to use names that would be more meaningful to English readers. As you know, we are dealing with more than one air force here - and also as you know I added one of the Soviet air forces which was entirely missing. I was focused on the game start OB - and at that time a CHS team was working on a later OB - which I gather they concluded was more or less present in secret, hidden code form - it appears after a certain date in certain slots - whatever you put in them being written over.
These are general comments. As far as I am concerned, I used better names. Probably no person had more influence on the Soviet OB than you have in the RHS process - and your feedback was and is welcome. If you have a specific issue - raise it. I myself understand Russian to some extent - and I am not in the least opposed to using appropriate names in any language. But my Russian knowledge is from a different era - and I am less than confident I understand esoteric terms from the WWII era. I wholly lacked confidence to even think about using the Russian names. But with a guide - not a problem.
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