Re: Simultaneous Risk Questions

[Richard Rognlie <rrognlie@gamerz.net>]

The problem is that many of the territories are not proper countries. 

ala == alaska (AK in US state speak)
nwt == North West Territory (Canadian Province)
wus/eus == Western and Eastern US
weu/neu/seu == Western, Northern and Southern Europe...
cam == Central America

On Thu, Mar 09, 2000 at 10:34:45AM +0000, Nick Waterman wrote:
> Richard Rognlie wrote:
> > 1.  Notation for the board.  In the silence of last week, I got
> >     exactly no response.  So, I've taken it on myself to create
> >     one.  Each territory gets a 3 letter code.
> >
> >         NA => ala nwt gre alb ont que wus eus cam
> >         SA => ven per bra arg
> >         EU => ice sca gbr neu weu seu ukr
> >         AF => naf egy eaf con saf mad
> >         AS => ura sib yak irk kam mon jap chi afg mid ind sia
> >         AU => mal ngu wau eau
> >
> >     The only oddity is Indonesia.  Its name is too close to India
> >     so I renamed it to Malaysia (mal) [I hope no one is offended].
>
> I'm not a RISK player, so have no idea if I've got the wrong end of the
> stick here... But why not use the ISO-standard country codes, as used
> for country code top-level internet domains? This would be particularly
> relevent for PBeM, surely?
>
> ID => Indonesia
> IN => India
>
> http://www.din.de/gremien/nas/nabd/iso3166ma/codlstp1.html
>
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