ColinWright
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ORIGINAL: Oberst_Klink Colin, thanks for the answer. I am aware of the "paper strength" and the KStN... Wouldn't it be at least a tad easier for the scenario designers to have those in one XLS or MDB file? Same for the OOB of certain campaigns. Let's presume I want to create a battle of a vital sector on the Ostfront... E.g. State Farm 79, one of the battles along the Chir. Forces involved, maybe one Coprs each, unit size, Battalion. There are plenty of larger scale scenarios where I see, ok. 17.Pz Div, 100 Sqds, yada, yada.. We know the OOB or the organisation of that unit and split it up into the Rgt, Btl, Abt. That was my idea behind it. :) Klink I think that would be very useful to have. The hard work is summing up the available -- and conflicting -- information and converting it accurately into TOAW editor terms. It might be more useful if it was unconverted. There are several different theories about how to represent things in TOAW. What I'm saying is that (this is intended for illustrative purposes and is not based on any data at all) that rather than seeing 'Russian Rifle Regiment 1942: 108 Rifle Squads, 36 Med.MG, 12 50 mm mortars, 12 82 mm mortars, 4 76 mm ER guns, 4 45 mm AT guns, four wagons...' It could be more helpful to have... 'Russian Rifle Regiment 1942: 3108 men, organized into three battalions of three rifle companies and one MG company each. Total arms: 2943 Model whatever bolt-action rifles, 384 Ppsh-39 submachine guns, 123 Model __ machine guns, 38 model __ machine guns...etc. Usually, Neihorster et al serve quite nicely to resolve any questions about how all this was arranged. For example, 36 of the thirty eight medium MG's will turn out to be in the machine gun companies, while 2 of them might be with the 76 mm field gun battery. Point is, I'd probably represent the 36 MG's and leave out the 2. Curtis LeMay would probably put in all 38. We both should have the raw data that permits us to apply our theories of how to represent things in TOAW.
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