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Title: Nafziger OOB files given away for free
Post by: Ed Anger on February 23, 2010, 10:43:10 AM
By the US Army:

http://www.cgsc.edu/carl/nafziger/index.asp

Enjoy the piss poor naming of the files.
Title: Re: Nafziger OOB files given away for free
Post by: The Brain on February 23, 2010, 11:08:41 AM
ZOMG
Title: Re: Nafziger OOB files given away for free
Post by: Ed Anger on February 23, 2010, 11:16:37 AM
Quote from: The Brain on February 23, 2010, 11:08:41 AM
ZOMG

Now you can find out how many horses the Swedish Horseraper regiment had.
Title: Re: Nafziger OOB files given away for free
Post by: Razgovory on February 23, 2010, 11:43:12 AM
Useful if you have a month to spend and you don't feel like you do enough filing in your life.
Title: Re: Nafziger OOB files given away for free
Post by: sbr on February 23, 2010, 01:23:09 PM
What is Nafziger?  :Embarrass:
Title: Re: Nafziger OOB files given away for free
Post by: Razgovory on February 23, 2010, 01:24:24 PM
I think it's the german word for sticking your finger up someone's ass while they are sleeping.
Title: Re: Nafziger OOB files given away for free
Post by: Ed Anger on February 23, 2010, 02:26:21 PM
Quote from: sbr on February 23, 2010, 01:23:09 PM
What is Nafziger?  :Embarrass:

It is this dude that publishes Orders of Battle that wargamers and history nuts can use for their dark rites.

http://home.fuse.net/nafziger/

I mainly started the thread for grumbler to see since IIRC, he is into the miniatures wargames. But others might have a use for them.
Title: Re: Nafziger OOB files given away for free
Post by: The Brain on February 23, 2010, 02:28:08 PM
Quote from: Ed Anger on February 23, 2010, 02:26:21 PM
I mainly started the thread for grumbler to see since IIRC, he is into the miniatures wargames.

:nerd: :nerd: :nerd:
Title: Re: Nafziger OOB files given away for free
Post by: grumbler on February 23, 2010, 06:50:20 PM
Quote from: Ed Anger on February 23, 2010, 02:26:21 PM
I mainly started the thread for grumbler to see since IIRC, he is into the miniatures wargames. But others might have a use for them.
Appreciate it, Ed... but I know which company now has all his books (and the OOBs, but he has been giving those away at cost for some time now).  Stop by our booth at Cold Wars if you want to see George's stuff.  :)

George claims that he is retiring.  Dunno how long that will last.  He is eliminating his book collection, though, which is sad.

To the others:  mainly what George has been doing for years is translating primary source OOBs, and selling them for the cost of reproducing them.  He is much, much better at translation than at actual writing, but his writing isn't bad.  He was one of the first "print-on-demand" publishers in the military history business.  Now lots of people do it.
Title: Re: Nafziger OOB files given away for free
Post by: Alatriste on February 24, 2010, 06:22:23 AM
Well, I'm very much interested... and quite frustrated by the paleolithic naming convention too.

I have already found some little gems like this battle order from the battle of Villaviciosa (1710)

http://www.cgsc.edu/CARL/nafziger/710LAA.pdf

Tough I can't understand why Philip V's army is defined as 'French' when absolutely all units listed belong to the Spanish Army... perhaps that was the term employed in the original? (it comes from Starhemberg Archives and Philip V appears as "Philipp Duc d'Anjou")