nymanjens / Alliances

WWI-themed board game
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Changed faction names #190

Closed Tantali closed 7 years ago

Tantali commented 7 years ago

Given that we also have the random initialization, and to avoid confusion of player names resembling a region, I went for the nationalities.

317070 commented 7 years ago

TBH, I don't see this as an improvement? It's not very sensitive to call the Ukrainians Russians, or to say it were only the British in the war rather than the whole United Kingdom + commonwealth.

I would rather go towards calling them the British Empire, the French Third Republic, The Russian Empire, The German Empire, The Ottoman Empire and the Austro-Hungarian Empire. And maybe include the names in the original languages in the beginning of the rules.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Allies_of_World_War_I https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Central_Powers

nymanjens commented 7 years ago

+1 to 317070's suggestion

Tantali commented 7 years ago

Sounds fine to me as well, I was preferring the nationalities for the short length of the names. Why couldn't the French just go for the French Empire? Pffff, history...

I'll change the pull request accordingly.

And maybe include the names in the original languages in the beginning of the rules.

You mean like 'Россійская Имперія' for Russian Empire, just for flavor?

Tantali commented 7 years ago

Last commit contains the flavor, if we don't like it, it can be reverted.

317070 commented 7 years ago

Maybe just French Third Republic in the beginning, and otherwise French Republic? Both are correct, but the first has a little more flavor to it.

Otherwise, according to my research:

Tantali commented 7 years ago

Beat you to it :)

Tantali commented 7 years ago

Looks good to me. Verbose in the beginning, shorthand everywhere else.