Ship prefixes are easy to fix for yourself using the unitnames.csv. Is there is something much more important to be fixed then it's the problem with the same ship names being used after a historical ship is sunk or destroyed.
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This did happen some times in real life, at least in the US Navy:
Yorktown CV-5 vs Yorktown CV-10
Lexington CV-2 vs Lexington CV-16
And other ships.
That said, it can be kind of annoying.
Also, I'm looking forward to seeing what changes have been made to the naval system in AoD. I'm playing a game as Britain right now, with Vanilla + DAIM, and so far I've sunk the entire German and most of the Italian navies, losing only a few destoyers and 1 light cruiser (the HMS Birmingham, whose name was indeed reused).
No offence to foreigners - But HMS "X" is the full name of Her Britannic Majesty's Ship (or His in WW2) without it it would be incorrectly named - I have a motor boat called Dreadnought for example - Thats mine - HMS Dreadnought is the Queens
Trust me, I am very well aware of this (and I did the revamp of naval forces for AoD), but the issue raised was that, for a number of non-Royal Navy ships, the names given in HoI: Armageddon included inappropriate prefixes for the nation concerned. Where I encountered this issue, I fixed it, but I also gained some sympathy for the original author of the lists, since even revising them was one heck of a big job! The prefix "HMS" is correct usage for British naval vessels, but the prefix "KMS" (for, presumably, "Kriegsmarine Ship") was an invention of 1950s British and American historians, as far as I can tell - and was certainly not correct usage in Germany. Same with "HIJMS" ("His Imperial Japanese Majesty's Ship") in Japan.
Editing UNIT Names & OOBs
HI,
Does anyone know if there are any Order of Battle (OOB) text files you can access /edit ?
As I would like ti print out a list of all the Units available to that a country at game/scenario start.
Having played the UK from 1936, i want to be able to have a list to hand of which units to sell / disband up grade etc (specially the Navy Mk1 ships)... otherwise it takes for ever to sort them all out.
Also, i'd like to edit some of the UK airforce unit names and officers ranks... as they dont read correctly... in order of ascending size/strength/rank they should read
Sqn / Wing / Group
Air Commodore *
AVM -Air Vice Marshal **
Air Marshal ***
Air Chief Marshal ****
Marshal of Royal Air Force *****
Both the Air unit size and ranks are the same for the entire Commonwealth & Dominion forces.... so it makes sense for them to read correctly.
Is this possible.... as I'm sick of having to edit each unit by hand once thet appear on the map or when produced ? :wacko:
HI,
Does anyone know if there are any Order of Battle (OOB) text files you can access /edit ?
As I would like ti print out a list of all the Units available to that a country at game/scenario start.
Having played the UK from 1936, i want to be able to have a list to hand of which units to sell / disband up grade etc (specially the Navy Mk1 ships)... otherwise it takes for ever to sort them all out.
Also, i'd like to edit some of the UK airforce unit names and officers ranks... as they dont read correctly... in order of ascending size/strength/rank they should read
Sqn / Wing / Group
Air Commodore *
AVM -Air Vice Marshal **
Air Marshal ***
Air Chief Marshal ****
Marshal of Royal Air Force *****
Both the Air unit size and ranks are the same for the entire Commonwealth & Dominion forces.... so it makes sense for them to read correctly.
Is this possible.... as I'm sick of having to edit each unit by hand once thet appear on the map or when produced ? :wacko:
OOBs are in the contry INC files and can be viewed and edited with a text editor (like Notepad).
Officer ranks are in text.csv in the 'Config' folder, but be aware that whatever you change them to will be used for all nations (when playing in English), not just for the UK/Commonwealth air forces.
Unit names can be edited in the scenario INC files (for starting units) and in the new unit names CSV files in the 'DB' folder.
Enjoy
Officer ranks are in text.csv in the 'Config' folder, but be aware that whatever you change them to will be used for all nations (when playing in English), not just for the UK/Commonwealth air forces.
Unit names can be edited in the scenario INC files (for starting units) and in the new unit names CSV files in the 'DB' folder.
Enjoy
Editing OOBS - Unit headers
Thanks very much for that.... seems like i'm going to be in for some RSI before the weekends' out ! :rofl:
Its a pity that if you edit the officer ranks to reflect the correct "rank" structure for the country you're playing, that it duplicates it for all the other countries. Is there not a 'string' variable to set that maintains the 'rank' structure for all nations, but allows a "comment" txt against it..
ie:
* = Brigadier General / Air Commodore / GeneralMajor etc etc
OOBs are in the contry INC files and can be viewed and edited with a text editor (like Notepad).
Officer ranks are in text.csv in the 'Config' folder, but be aware that whatever you change them to will be used for all nations (when playing in English), not just for the UK/Commonwealth air forces.
Unit names can be edited in the scenario INC files (for starting units) and in the new unit names CSV files in the 'DB' folder.
Enjoy
Thanks very much for that.... seems like i'm going to be in for some RSI before the weekends' out ! :rofl:
Its a pity that if you edit the officer ranks to reflect the correct "rank" structure for the country you're playing, that it duplicates it for all the other countries. Is there not a 'string' variable to set that maintains the 'rank' structure for all nations, but allows a "comment" txt against it..
ie:
* = Brigadier General / Air Commodore / GeneralMajor etc etc