Early war Schutzstaffel

[plloyd1010]

The last game these guys appeared in was Slovakia's War. Right?
In publication, I mean.

[treadasaurusrex]

Will check and get back to you. I think that they are in Deluge, as well.

[plloyd1010]

Will check and get back to you. I think that they are in Deluge, as well.

But were they published in Deluge? The SS counters did not come with the game, just the Poles who started in White Eagles.

[plloyd1010]

I think the NKVD were republished in Slovakia's War as well.

[plloyd1010]

The point of my question in this thread is about the naming convention adopted for air and leader extensions in PG Über. That is leader and air extensions being renamed to conform to the latest game release of the counters. For example; Road to Berlin leader and air extensions were renamed to Fire & Sword.

I was thinking of Sinister Forces which introduced the early war, and less competent SS leaders. The rerelease of those (I think) came with Slovakia's War. Since I associate the SS more with "sinister" than with Slovakia, I was thinking that leader extension should keep its old name.

This also brings up the notion of renaming USMC leaders and USN air from Guadalcanal being renamed to conform to Atlantic Marines, and Japanese leaders from Kokoda Campaign, originally from Guadalcanal, to conform to Changsha Operation. Those are more of a technical observation and not really being considered, but there they are.

Does anyone else have thoughts on the subject?

[rerathbun]

Would it mess things up if we list them all twice?  I will probably always associate them with the titles of their first releases (one of the perils of getting older).

If that won't work, maybe list them under both names:  Guadalcanal/Atlantic Marines

[Shad]

Does anyone else have thoughts on the subject?

 Ultimately the only person who absolutely, positively needs to know which extensions contain which items is you as chief maintainer. Everyone else can just click and download all the needed extensions for the game they want to play.

I never, ever look at the extension titles. I just grab the game's zip and import everything into Vassal and forget about it.

Maybe I'm extraordinarily lazy, but I'd bet most users approach it the same way I do.

[Grognard Gunny]

Except the "files" (if duplicate) can either be omitted OR replaced when down loading. This causes the duplicate files to be renamed to whatever the current name is (or not) and it is left to the "resident warrior" to figure out which is which and use them accordingly. This causes (Me, at least) a great deal of time is setting up a new scenario. Then there is the problem of the "Named Units" in which I didn't use the specific units for the Spearhead Division (Thought it wouldn't make any difference whatsoever.) and caused my opponent and I a couple of anxious, hair pulling minutes because our scenarios would not sync (Because I used the standard US Army unit set...) and I will have to use the U.S. Army standard units for when the reinforcements come in later in the game anyway. This type of minute' drives me to drink! (Just saying.)

I know you are trying to simplify but sometimes you obfuscate instead. 

GG