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Originally Posted by DRG
It is possible to have more battles than days in a month in a campaign but I would also say it would be very VERY rare that anyone would actually do that.
The simplest solution would be to tell people it won't work if they build a campaign with more than 30 battles a month.... I doubt anyone will complain and for campaigns that do have multiple battles in a month then the first one would be 1..etc etc for "dating" purposes.
SOMEONE will always find a way to push the game beyond the limits then say it's broken. Most though have more reasonable expectations
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DRG, thanks, I find your suggestion quite sensible!
This is indeed what I was considering: an automatic battle date day 'assignment',
based on the day of the previous battle in the same month. As long as there are
no more battles in a month than days in that month, warcab does not risk running
out of days to assign...
I suppose it shouldn't be too hard to introduce this in warcab...
The other thing that needs looking into is the battle disambiguation.
This is what is known about each battle:
- a battle start year and month
- a battle location string
- the battle mission strings of the player and the opponent
- the OOB ID of the opponent
I am hoping that the combination of these elements would be enough to uniquely
identify any of less than 30 battles in a month. Of course, there is no 100% guarantee,
but if the odds are good warcab could indeed only require additional input from the user
when it detects a (then unlikely) battle ambiguity...
So, the question is, is the above a reasonable assumption to make?
Erik
BTW: sorry for all the naive (or stupid/silly/...) questions. I do not have any background
with winSPWW2, so I am not at all aware of what it can do and how it is usually done... 
Erik