I am fixing the brink of war scenario. It was too interesting to waste. The nations, efile, and map. The current version is all goofed up. I think I got the e file cleaned up today.
(Using the world nations. 100+)
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About Brink of War...
I messed with that on various occasions.
For nations I used a world version when I was editing the map.
Possibly the same you mention.
On the recent e-file experiment I used a crazy nations.txt with 204 nations.
Includes things like Barbados, Congo_B and Congo_F (Belgian and French), Yemen, Djibouti, Dahomey, Chagos, Bhutan, Brunei, Belize, Turks and Caicos, Micronesia, and last but not least Pitcairn.
Many entries are islands or archipelagos which may come onto some prominence in a world version.
Also a good deal are duplications similar to the two Congos, for cases of colonies that were partaken between two powers.
A few may be "new" independent territories but I believe most fall under the colony category.
For practical considerations, this nations.txt is an attempt at detailing geographical areas that are sort of sketched or less in the original list.
First of all Africa appears in much more detail.
The Caribbean chain is all there (I think).
As much if not all of the Indian and Pacific Ocean's territorries.
The e-file I ended up completing from an Excel data version.
But I merged it with Konzev's and added a few entries of my own.
It worked but of course it needs a second phase of choosing what to keep and what to let go.
The goofed up state is more than likely due to the fact that in 2010, when BoW e-file was made, many of the current e-file editor fields weren't even imagined yet, let alone working.
Worth mentioning is that BRD reached over a thousand entries but he actually kept the e-file rather sketchy in terms of representing different models of the same equipment.
For some reason he used some kind of editor that limited the maximum number of entries to 1200.
So, you will not find many Spitfires, for instance, from memory I think there are only three.
One being the PR (I think), the photo recon version.
And I believe another may be the naval (carrier) version.
No Spit I, II, Vb, IX, XIV, XVII, XXIII or whatever.
But it is more detailed in the naval slope, with, for instance, various U-boot models and even a few examples of ships from less famous countries.
Also interesting is the trend to use local designations for many of the Infantry units.
So, the whole thing could be used just after completing the missing data on the original entries.
But it could greatly benefit from the introduction of some equipment "series" that are absent from the original, particularly true of aircraft and armour. Unless the idea would be a "generic" type e-file, "German 41 Pz Rgt" kind of thing, in which case PzIIID, PzIIIG, PzIIIH, PzIIIJ would be redundant. Original BoW has just PzIII...
The map I worked on on two major occasions.
Alas the first edition was lost on some hard drive cataclism, with just a few screenshots surviving.
For the second go I used a less detailed / more effort realistic approach.
What I have now is a very decent version from the point of view of objectives.
Alas that is almost exclusively that.
I tried once or twice to start a river edition phase but never really took off...
So, my edition of the Bow map would be just good enough to try the whole concept, having a better objective array than the original.
Oh, and all of the objectives are named (those I added or edited, I think I left a few rare examples of the original and did not name those).
That includes a few special port names (a few ports have names that are different from the respective cities).
And many of the historical airport or airfield names.
There are also many oil hexes marked on the map, complete with names.