Question: Battle dates: year, month, day, hour?

[ErikCumps]

Hi,

As you may know, I am working on adding support for winSPWW2 to my War Cabinet tool. Good progress is being made, but unfortunately I have hit a bump in the road.

Warcab makes the (logical) assumption that two different battles in a campaign can not happen both at the same point in time. Based on this assumption, warcab uses the battle date as a unique identifier for each battle, and also to place each battle in the correct spot on the campaign timeline so that a correct unit history and progression can be calculated.

Now, about the bump and my question:

It seems that winSPWW2 only records the year and month of a battle, but not the day or the hour? At least, I was not able to find out where it is stored in the savegame.

Warcab can provide a synthetic day (1st of the month) and hour (9 AM), but it cannot avoid problems when dealing with multiple battles in the same month, because these different battles will all end up on the exact same battle date.

Even if I would relax the rules and also take the battle location into account to differentiate between these different battles, warcab would still be unable to determine the correct order of these battles with the risk that the resulting unit history will not be correct.

Having already seen two battles in a campaign that both happen in the same month, I believe these problems are likely to occur.

So, I am really looking for some confirmation about the winSPWW2 battle dates and their storage in the savegames:

• Does winSPWW2 record the battle day in the savegame, and if so: where?

• Does winSPWW2 record the battle start hour in the savegame, and if so: where?

It is my sincere hope that at least the battle day is indeed recorded in the savegame, because that would substantially reduce the risk of different battles with the same battle date.

It would also avoid the need for warcab to enlist the help of the user, for example by requiring the user to specify the battle day and hour whenever a new battle is added to the campaign dossier.

Thanks in advance,
Erik