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General Forums => Aces High General Discussion => Topic started by: Citabria on December 15, 2002, 04:37:33 PM

Title: CT request: new country names
Post by: Citabria on December 15, 2002, 04:37:33 PM
it would be nice to not have to use the gamey bishop/rook/knit names for countries.

would it be possible to code in new symbols and names for the countries for ct?

like axis with a cross or zero

allies with a star

neutral with any symbol?
Title: CT request: new country names
Post by: eskimo2 on December 15, 2002, 05:49:47 PM
Tards, Dweebs and Jerks?

eskimo
Title: CT request: new country names
Post by: Shane on December 15, 2002, 07:24:55 PM
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Originally posted by eskimo2
Tards, Dweebs and Jerks?

eskimo


tards, dweebs and slobberdonkeys.

:D
Title: CT request: new country names
Post by: eskimo2 on December 15, 2002, 08:17:06 PM
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Originally posted by Shane
tards, dweebs and slobberdonkeys.

:D


Yes, this is a much better description of us!

Now show me the Icons!

eskimo
Title: CT request: new country names
Post by: Halo on December 15, 2002, 09:22:20 PM
For political correctness, better to stay with neutral chess terms and symbols in general while allowing real country names in scenarios.  Even there would avoid reviving symbols like swastika or rising sun.  

Fine to war game to learn lessons and try new tactics, but unproductive to revive old animosities.   Aces High uses WWII equipment, not WWII politics.
Title: CT request: new country names
Post by: eskimo2 on December 15, 2002, 09:31:48 PM
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Originally posted by Halo
For political correctness, better to stay with neutral chess terms and symbols in general while allowing real country names in scenarios.  Even there would avoid reviving symbols like swastika or rising sun.  

Fine to war game to learn lessons and try new tactics, but unproductive to revive old animosities.   Aces High uses WWII equipment, not WWII politics.


Hey, were talking about the CT here, were anything but neutral, politically correct!  And we do relive battles there.

eskimo
Title: CT request: new country names
Post by: Karnak on December 15, 2002, 09:49:59 PM
Halo,

Unless I am quite mistaken, Japanese warships still fly the Rising Sun ensign.
Title: CT request: new country names
Post by: FDutchmn on December 15, 2002, 10:12:50 PM
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Originally posted by Karnak
Unless I am quite mistaken, Japanese warships still fly the Rising Sun ensign.


For some reason which I have not research into yet, the Maritime Self Defense Force still do fly the same rising sun ensign that the Japanese Imperial Navy was using at the time.
Title: CT request: new country names
Post by: Karnak on December 15, 2002, 11:36:51 PM
The Rising Sun ensign was not a political symbol like the swastica.

It is more like the crosses that German aircraft carried, and still carry.
Title: CT request: new country names
Post by: Rollio on December 16, 2002, 03:11:12 AM
What's not to like about the meatball anyway?
Title: CT request: new country names
Post by: Dowding (Work) on December 16, 2002, 04:16:25 AM
German planes carry the pre-Nazi schwarz-kreuz. That's just a guess at the name by the way. It's the same cross carried by German planes in WW1.
Title: CT request: new country names
Post by: devious on December 16, 2002, 06:37:22 AM
It's called a the Balkenkreuz btw ;)
Title: CT request: new country names
Post by: MRPLUTO on December 16, 2002, 07:10:30 AM
Rollio--

He's talking about the rising sun with the rays coming out from it, not just the plain sun.

I think the sun w/ rays is a Japanese naval battle flag, and it is still flown.

******

While we'll never see Nazi swastikas or a Communist hammer & sickle, will we have (or are there already?) planes with half-naked babes as squad logos?

******

MRPLUTO  VMF-323  ~Death Rattlers~  MAG-33
Title: Re: CT request: new country names
Post by: Ratbo on December 16, 2002, 09:46:26 AM
How about  A-land, B-land, and C-land ??

-W  (runs like hell)

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Originally posted by Citabria
it would be nice to not have to use the gamey bishop/rook/knit names for countries.

would it be possible to code in new symbols and names for the countries for ct?
Title: CT request: new country names
Post by: Lizard3 on December 16, 2002, 10:20:23 AM
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Originally posted by MRPLUTO
Rollio--

will we have (or are there already?) planes with half-naked babes as squad logos?

******

MRPLUTO  VMF-323  ~Death Rattlers~  MAG-33


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