OBT Forum

  Well, many of the translations are machine-work out of Google, rather than the proper context-sensitive interpretation you get from a human mind, but in the absence of such a translator, this semi-preliminary readout on the Union forces should be 'good enough' to give everyone a general overview of the Union military and draw at least some constructive criticism.  I hope. 

  My sincerest thanks to al103 for his invaluable contribution of many of the Russian translations - not to mention a Russian perspective! - to elements of this document and some of the Union military's organisational elements.  That said, in spite of his vehemence on certain points I am still tempted to keep all of the Union Divisions made up of Brigades, rather than have the Svobodans still clinging to the 20th-century Russian mentality that Divisions are made up of Regiments, and a Brigade is a 'small Division' rather than a 'big Regiment'.  After all, the Virginia War is set more than eight centuries after the Second Soviet Civil War! 
  Perhaps I'll borrow a trick from the Poms and make the component battalions 'Regiments' in terms of honours and titles.  That would let me keep both the hybridised system of rank-titles I've painstakingly worked out and my conscious contrast, in- and out-of-universe, between the GCC's 'pure' Regiments and the Allies' combined-arms Brigades.  Thoughts from the readers? 

  And as always, if anyone out there would like to provide additional explicatory/exemplary artwork, or vectorise and generally clean-up the Paint.Net hatchet-jobs I'm currently using for rank-insignia and other elements, I'd be more than grateful for their assistance.