Ahistorical OOBs in HPS SBs

[TheBigRedOne]

If you read the liner notes in the manual for VN, Tiller discusses some of the details of the game, specifically the names of the leaders being randomized in Vietnam.

Since many of people who fought in the Vietnam War are still alive, he felt uncomfortable using real names and assigning leader ratings to these individuals, which is why if you look at the leader ratings, they might not necessarily be as accurate as you'd expect from a Tiller game. The Vietnam War was a very difficult conflict for America, and he chose to make the first game in the SB series respectful of that, and of the men who fought and died in the war.

I would assume that this is probably also detailed in the fact that the units might not necessarily match up with the historical units involved. I have seen that the X-Ray units aren't correct, but I've never gone back and looked at all of the scenarios to see if this is something general.

Every other game in the series should be fairly accurate in this regard, especially the last several releases. Joao, Mike and Oz made great pains to have the OOBs as accurate as possible, given the information they could find. Clearly, individual names of leaders can't always be found, so there is some latitude there, but major commanders should all be fairly accurate, as well as the units involved.