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KesaAnna -> toggle measurements and acronyms (7/26/2016 4:42:14 AM)
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A toggle feature that substitutes 0300 with 3:00 AM .
Also , yards ( ? ) instead of meters. I am pretty confident that to the average American ( I'm guessing a lot of people who would play this game are American, and non-military ) 3000 meters means you might as well be speaking Attic Greek.
All of the above could be chalked up to the players ignorance and / or laziness , but this last is a genuine beef ; replacing acronyms with actual English.
Give me a break, it really is not that much harder to type --- especially when you are only going to be typing it once and permanently --- " anti-tank " , instead of "AT" .
This excessive profusion of acronyms in military-speak is an annoying affectation .
The purpose of language, presumably, is to foster enlightenment, not obscurity.
I have been playing war games since the 1970's , and studying military science as a hobby as long, and EVERY DAY I encounter ANOTHER acronym I then have to look up ! ( IF I can find anywhere to look it up . ) It's ridiculous !
It is one reason why, aesthetically, I prefer the Warsaw Pact / Soviets ; At least their writings are actually readable.
Now I realize that the necessarily small size of the unit info cards and the commanders notebook calls for a large degree of abbreviation. So I would at least ask for a 50 - to - 200 page section ( Yes, you use acronyms that much ) in the manual that defines all of these acronyms . That is, that TRANSLATES them into an ACTUAL LANGUAGE.
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