Community Timeline for 4th edition

[castlebravo92]

Ok, I purchased it.

Have a question though. Units are listed like this:

1st Mechanized Infantry Division
Location: Hangzhou, Zhejiang
Personnel: ~4000 [~12500]
Combat Vehicles: 278 [346]

what do the numbers in brackets represent?

[Ewan]

Originally Posted by castlebravo92

Ok, I purchased it.

Have a question though. Units are listed like this:

1st Mechanized Infantry Division
Location: Hangzhou, Zhejiang
Personnel: ~4000 [~12500]
Combat Vehicles: 278 [346]

what do the numbers in brackets represent?

The numbers in brackets is the units prewar full strength so in the example above at full strength it was 12,500 but is now down to roughly a third of its prewar strength.

[Heffe]

This is correct. I followed the template set forth by the 4e canon products when it came to listing units, so that it would feel like it was a part of the 4e suite of products. The numbers in the brackets are pre-war strength of these units. Where we had exact figures regarding the number of men/vehicles in a given formation, we listed them, and where we only had rough figures, we gave an approximate number using a tilda.

[Raellus]

A lot of good work there. For spots that didn't receive a decent treatment in earlier versions (and there are quite a few), some of the material in the 4e Community Timeline (OOBs, local factions, etc.) could be easily adapted to v1-2.2/2013.

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[Heffe]

Thank you, Rae.

We definitely did our best to blend reality with the 4e timeline as much as possible, using real life events. Huge props to Chico for sharing his many, many collected OrBats with me (thanks, Chico - I gave you a shout out at the beginning of the supplement for your help as well ) - those were used directly in determining where a lot of the units wound up in the narratives we wrote.