Neighborhood names in RWZ
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AzureSkyCiel,
Posted on: 2009-11-09 12:59 in CoH and CoV General Discussions
They couldn't find other battles with names that could be applied to roads or streets, perhaps?
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probably because it is the same piece of terrain. A continuation of thought.
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Originally Posted by Katie V
With one exceptions, the neighborhoods in the Rikti War Zone are named after battles or battlefield landmarks from the past 150 years. The most recent "Pavia" I could find is the 1525 Battle of Pavia: is there a more recent action named "Pavia" that I'm unaware of?
On the same subject, why does the Battle of Antietam get two mentions: Bloody Lane and Sunken Road, both of which refer to the same piece of terrain? |
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Perhaps because 'Sunken Road' may also refer to the Battle of Fredricksburg, where Confederate artillery and infantry were set up behind a sunken road and wall facing a 400-yard open plain that the Union Army had to cross, or more likely to the Battle of Shiloh, where Benjamin Prentiss' and W.H.L. Wallace's divisions of the Union Army established and held a position called the "Hornet's Nest" in a field along a road referred to as the "Sunken Road" (now in Shiloh Military Park):|
Originally Posted by Katie V
With one exceptions, the neighborhoods in the Rikti War Zone are named after battles or battlefield landmarks from the past 150 years. The most recent "Pavia" I could find is the 1525 Battle of Pavia: is there a more recent action named "Pavia" that I'm unaware of?
On the same subject, why does the Battle of Antietam get two mentions: Bloody Lane and Sunken Road, both of which refer to the same piece of terrain? |
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They couldn't find other battles with names that could be applied to roads or streets, perhaps?
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With one exceptions, the neighborhoods in the Rikti War Zone are named after battles or battlefield landmarks from the past 150 years. The most recent "Pavia" I could find is the 1525 Battle of Pavia: is there a more recent action named "Pavia" that I'm unaware of?
On the same subject, why does the Battle of Antietam get two mentions: Bloody Lane and Sunken Road, both of which refer to the same piece of terrain?