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[DimeBagHo]

Sounds good Agathon, if you e-mail it to me (just click my name on the left) I'll put it in the next release.

[Agathon]

This is probably a foolish question, but how does one attach a file to one of these e-mail messages?

Also, I'm downloading 4.1.6.

[DimeBagHo]

Try using your regular e-mail ap. Here's the e-mail address: dimebagwhore@yahoo.com

[Agathon]

DMBHo,

I just finished sending names. Since I made a recent revision to use it with my recently installed XGM v. 4.1.6, I attached it directly from my XGM\Data\Text directory. In short, this is the copy that I'm playing with now.

I think, or rather I just have this feeling that the names for Greek (or almost Greek) female characters should be given more attention. There are dozens of little known (outside of esoteric Hellenic literature) names that could be employed.

As an example, your avatar name, DimeBagHo, has an ancient greek equivalent of which you may not have been aware. Didrachmon was an hetaira whose true name is lost to us, but her nick reveals that she always charged 2 drachma for a session. That was roughly two days wages for a laborer, or the cost of two over-priced eels for the supper of a wealthy patron. So Didrachmon meant or signified to its ancient hearers something very much like "TwoDrachmaHo."

[Agathon]

Evidently (a CTD whispered it into my ear) descr_model_battle.txt has a glass ceiling limit on the number of entries that the file can contain. Since I've had more units in the DMB of my earlier version of XGM, I'm thinking that the lack of space, has something to do with expanding woodwork on the models and textures of the Julii and Scipii.

Any suggestions about what I should throw overboard first to free up some space?

[Agathon]

If anyone is taking what I've written too seriously, just remember:

In exspectatione suspensi caligi Romani in graecum anum meum vivo.
(I live in expectation of the hanging of the Roman boot in my Greek ___).

[DimeBagHo]

Didrachmon sounds like an ancillary waiting to happen. :) Feel free to work on the women's names as well if you want to, and thanks for the new names file - it will be in the next version released.

If you want to cut entries from descr_model_battle.txt you could start with the officers. Just cut the officer lines from any units that have them in export_descr_units.txt as well.