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by Don Hessong and Jim Van Verth Orders You can order units in Realpolitik by text entry or point and click. This document covers the format for text entry. See the Realpolitik Manual for more information on point and click entry of orders. Text Entry For text entry of orders, the format has to be right, but there is more than one right way with some things. As far as loading the orders goes, just copy the orders from whereever and paste them into the "orders" window or the map window. You can paste in orders for as many or as few units as you wish. You can also use the "Load Text" command, selecting an entire file from which to load orders. Order files come in two flavors: Judge files and plain files. Judge files have a certain format, and for the most part you won't need to worry about modifying them to be read in -- you can even leave the mail headers. Just make sure that you only have carriage returns at the end of lines, and you'll be fine. Plain files (or pasted
text) consist of only orders. Any additional information (e.g. mail
headers in a non-Judge file) will show up as an invalid order. The
one exception is the line '#! Resolved', which will mark the orders as
being pre-resolved so that you can commit them. The orders are not case-sensitive.
Excess space characters within the orders are ignored and will not prevent
the orders from being read correctly. Text Entry Format
The following nomenclature applies to the various orders. Country - "Germany" or "German" etc. The name of the country which controls the unit being ordered, or it's adjective, spelled out completely. Location - "Mun" or "Munich" etc. The accepted three letter abbreviation or the name of the space spelled out completely. Destination - Same as "Location" Coast - "(north coast)" "(nc)" "(n)" or "(northern)" etc. When coast designations are applicable, they are always in parenthesis and immediately follow the "Location" or the "Destination". Unit Type - "A" "ARMY"
"F" or "FLEET" Note that all the
following orders have "Country" as their first word. You can also
input orders in an alternate format, where you put "Country" on a line
by itself, and any orders following will be assumed to be from that country.
Movement Orders should be in the following format. "Country" "Unit Type" "Location" "Move Order" "Destination" Move Order = "->" "-" "MOVE" "MOVES" "M" "to" "moves to" or "attacks" Examples Hold Orders should be in the following format. "Country" "Unit Type" "Location" "Hold Order" Hold Order = "HOLD" "HOLDS" or "H" Examples Support Orders should be in the following format. "Country" "Unit Type" "Location" "Support Order" "Country and order for the unit being supported, in the normal format" Support Order = "SUPPORT" "SUPPORTS" or "S" The orders for a unit supporting a unit contolled by a different country, may refer to the nationality of the foreign unit, but it's not required. Examples Examples of support
for a unit holding in place Convoy Orders should be in the following format. "Country" "Unit Type" "Location" "Convoy Order" "Country and order for the unit being convoyed, in the normal format" Convoy Order = "CONVOY" "CONVOYS" or "C" The orders for a fleet convoying a unit contolled by a different country, may refer to the nationality of the foreign unit, but it's not required. Examples Retreat Orders should be in the following format. "Country" "Unit Type" "Location" "Retreat Order" "Destination" Retreat Order = "->" "-" "MOVE" "MOVES" "M" "to" "moves to" or "attacks" The format for Retreat Orders and the Retreat Orders themselves are the same as for Move Orders. Examples Disband Orders (during retreat phase) should be in the following format. "Country" "Unit Type" "Location" "Disband Order" Disband Orders (during retreat phase) = "DISBAND" or "DISBANDS" Examples Build Orders should be in the following format. "Country" "Build Order" "Unit Type" "Location" Build Order = "BUILDS" "BUILD" or "B" Examples Remove Orders (during adjustment phase) should be in the following format. "Country" "Remove Order" "Unit Type" "Location" Remove Order (during adjustment phase) = "REMOVES" "REMOVE" "R" "DISBAND" or "D" Examples Build Waived orders should be in the following format. "Country" "Build Waived Order" Build Waived Order = "BUILD WAIVED" Example Note that all the above orders have "Country" as their first word. You can also input orders in an alternate format, where you put "Country" on a line by itself, and any orders following will be assumed to be from that country. For example: England France This is exactly the format used by the orders window. Unlike the judges, the path of convoyed armies does not need to be specified in the order for the army. If a fleet can move to a space which has two coasts, even if it could only get to one of those coasts from it's current location, the order must designate which coast the fleet is moving to. Likewise you must include the coast of the destination space of the moving unit, within a supporting unit's order. Although it's not required in most cases to define the coast for the unit's originating space in the orders, not doing so will result in the resolve arrow for that unit originating from the army location of bi-coastal spaces rather than that coast's fleet location. It's generally a good idea to ALWAYS designate which coast applies for a unit's action regardless of whether the space is the unit's current location or destination and regardless of the type of order. Locations have only two forms: full name and three-letter abbreviation. In general the abbreviations used are the same as the Judge abbreviations, i.e. for the most part they are the same as the first three letters of the full name except: EMS or Eas
= Eastern Mediterranean Sea In Aberration: ebs
East Black Sea Full name means
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