[Brian61]

Thanks Don, it makes more sense now. From what I've seen and read the dates aren't off by much if they are actually off and not just a reflection of units that were in theatre but not deployed to a particular battleground at a certain date in history. That might be what I'm seeing with the early Grants; they probably were in theatre and even issued to some units at the time I encountered them, just that historically there were no battles in the month that the long campaign generator created one.

I wish I could afford to buy the books to do more in depth digging but I'm pretty well stuck with net resources plus what I can find in the San Francisco public library (surprisingly they have more than you'd think - ran across some of Guderian's writings there). Is there any chance that in the future we might see some patch for the CD version that would let another player buy the opposing side in a long campaign?

Thanks,
Brian