Editing OOB's

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I wish to thank you and Mr. Moss for the valuable explanations.  I am able to piece together the OOB files now.

What I cannot figure out is the ORG files within the OOB folder.  Are either of you able to shed some light on that for me?
Is it a byproduct of the OOB file?  Does it have to be created from scratch?  What do all the digits represent?

Thank you for any information you may be able to give.

I do almost all of my work in the Musket and Pike series; that engine doesn't use that sort of thing, in fact the only reference to an .org file is the below from the notes from Campaign Overland (and even that wasn't newly added.).  If I had to make an educated guess, I would say it is something that the scenario designer for Campaign Overland came up with. He also did a lot of work with the updates that were recently put out -so it might be likely that it got added to all of the titles now. I don't have any updated documentation with my updated versions, so I can't say if it was documented or not - I know that the below is all that I, personally, have.

I can't honestly say that I can make any sense out of this explanation - it is just a straight copy/paste.  Because of that maybe put it to support at johntillersoftware dot com.  

[qoute]Order of Battle

Independently of HPS and John Tiller Games, I have been working on a compendium on the Union and Confederate armies since about 2001. Dyer’s Compendium was published before the end of the 19th Century and does an amazing job of documenting the organization of the Union Army, and would have been a monumental task even with a computer. A similar work has not covered the Confederates, mainly because a lack of records made such an undertaking nearly impossible. Stewart Sifakis has published a Confederate Compendium, state by state, while my compendium takes that information and builds the composition of the armies, month by month, for the entire war. While these games feature an “Org File” (an ugly moniker, I’ve always felt), my compendium’s file includes a ten-digit number for each unit, each month, for 48 months. In the case of the Union Army, rather than duplicate Dyer, I only addressed certain months and units involved in major actions in those months. Taking May 1863 as an example, I only included those units in Grant’s Army at Vicksburg and Hooker’s Army of the Potomac. May of 1864 includes the armies of Meade, Bulter, Sigel and Sherman. Sorting everybody’s number as of the First of May, 1864, gave me the start point for an order of battle for each “Epoch” of the campaign.[/quote]