Looking for some information to help Souther Storm!

[CapnDarwin]

Guys,

While we are working on getting the 13 Update ship shape to ship to Matrix and working on Southern Storm, I find myself lacking some information for the proper organizational levels of many non-US armies and the associated rank (and proper rank abbreviation) of the of the highest HQ leader. As an example for the US, I have the following.

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HQ Level                Rank(s)                 Rank Abr
 Corps			Lt. General		LGn.
 Division		Major General		MG.
 Regiment / Brigade 	Colonel			Col.
 Battalion/Squadron 	Lt. Colonel		LtC.
 Company/Troop 		Captain			Cpt.
 Platoon 		Lieutenant		1Lt.
 Squad/Section		Staff Sergeant		SSsg.

I am looking for similar information for the Soviets, East and West Germans, Poland, France, UK, Belguim, Netherlands, Canada, Czechs, Denmark. Anyone who provided information or a good pointer to information can give me there Surname/Country and it will be added to the new data tab for leader names.

Complete Nations are underlined - Thanks again to those pitching in! [&o]

Thanks. [&o]

[harry_vdk]

Jim,

Some dutch/belguim rangs:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Military_ ... med_forces
https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lijst_van ... rijgsmacht
http://nl.milpedia.org/wiki/Militaire_r ... landmacht)
http://www.wikiwand.com/nl/Lijst_van_mi ... jdkrachten

A nice overview of the dutch OoB can be found on https://www.orbat85.nl/

[battlerbritain]

The Brits are just about exactly the same as US.

Some British Army battalions use strange terms for Sergeant, eg Corporal-of-Horse, the origin of which is deep in unit history but everybody else just understands it as another term for Sergeant, so just ignore it and use Sergeant.

Hope this helps,

B

[harry_vdk]

Some NATO rangs:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ranks_and ... s_officers

STANAG 2116 NATO codes for grades of military personnel
http://www.militaria.lv/stanag.htm

[CapnDarwin]

Thanks for posting the information guys! [&o][&o]
I will check it out this week as I work on things.

[batteran]

According to a friend in french officer class on another forum, for french army it's:

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HQ Level                Rank(s)                 Rank Abr
 Corps			Général de Corps d'Armée	GCA
 Division		Général de Division		GDI
 Brigade 		Général de Brigade		GBR
 Regiment 		Colonel				COL
 Companie/Escadron 	Capitaine			CNE
 Section/peloton 	Lieutenant			LTN
 Groupe			Sergent		        	SGT

[CapnDarwin]

Batteran, thanks for the info!

[Enigma6584]

Here you go Capn Darwin. I use these TO&E charts for my mission making in other games I play. I think you will find this useful. Scroll down to bottom of page for the "modern warfare/Cold War" TO&Es.

Fire and Fury TO&Es PDFs

Cheers.

P.S. Looks like I did not read your request carefully. Never-the-less, perhaps someone will find these useful.

[pzgndr]

ORIGINAL: Capn Darwin

As an example for the US, I have the following.

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HQ Level                Rank(s)                 Rank Abr
 Corps			Lt. General		LGn.
 Division		Major General		MG.
 Regiment / Brigade 	Colonel			Col.
 Battalion/Squadron 	Lt. Colonel		LtC.
 Company/Troop 		Captain			Cpt.
 Platoon 		Lieutenant		1Lt.
 Squad/Section		Staff Sergeant		SSsg.

This is a pet peeve, but when using US Army rank abr it would be nice to use official US Army rank abr: LTG, MG, COL, LTC, CPT, 1LT, SSG, etc. Also Co for company and not Coy, Bn, Bde, etc. Just a suggestion. Or make this stuff editable in a file? Whatever works.

[CapnDarwin]

Pzgndr, I can fix to caps and yes this info is in a new command tab in the Southern Storm data files so you can edit as you like for your scenario work.

[Plodder]

ORIGINAL: battlerbritain

The Brits are just about exactly the same as US.

Some British Army battalions use strange terms for Sergeant, eg Corporal-of-Horse, the origin of which is deep in unit history but everybody else just understands it as another term for Sergeant, so just ignore it and use Sergeant.

Hope this helps,

B

Almost but not quite, there's a quite a bit of difference in command ranks:

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 HQ Level                Rank(s)                 Rank Abr
 Corps			Lt. General		Lt Gen
 Division		Major General		Maj Gen
 Brigade 	        Brigadier		Brig
 Battalion/Regiment 	Colonel/Lt. Colonel	Col /Lt Col
 Company/Squadron	Major/Captain	        Maj / Capt
 Platoon/Troop 	        Lieutenant/2nd Lt.	Lt / 2Lt
 Section		        Corporal		Cpl 

Battalions are usually commanded (the CO) by Lt Col but the senior battalion commander in a Regt. is a Col.

Companys or Squadrons are commanded (the OC) by Majors with Captains as 2nd in command (2ic) but there are Coys (or Sqns) with Capts in charge.
Platoons or Troops can be commanded by either Lts or 2Lts.
Sections are commanded by Corporal with Lance Corporals as 2ic. Some sections have been known to be commanded by L/Cpls. Sergeants are platoon sergeants only but have been known to command platoons in wartime.

[CapnDarwin]

Thanks Plodder. [&o]

[ivanov]

Welcome back guys after some time. An info about Polish army. There was no corps level in Polish People's Army, so you had:

-Army ( during peace time is was a military district ) - generał broni ( General of arms ) - gen. broni

-Division - generał dywizji - gen. dyw

-Brigade - generał brygady - gen. bryg

-Regiment - pułkownik - płk.

-Batalion - major - mjr.

-Company - porucznik - por.

-Platoon - podporucznik - ppor.

-Squad - kapral - kpr.


Hope that helps.

[CapnDarwin]

Thanks Katukov!