Fix Nemesis Carabiniers


Captain_Photon

 

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There are two problems with Nemesis Carabiniers. First, their name is spelled wrong. There's no such word as "Carabineir". In French military parlance, whence most of the Nemesis Army's unit type names come, it's Carabinier. (The Italian military police are still called the Carabinieri to this day.)

That's not the big problem, though; it's just an irritating typo. The big problem is that they're not carbineers. Carbineers are called carbineers because they carry carbines - that is, shorter rifles than those employed by the rest of their army. The rifle Nemesis Carabineirs (sic) carry is bloody massive. Nemesis Armigers and Chasseurs carry something that could be considered a carbine by the standards of the Nemesis arsenal, but that gigantic war trombone the Carbs carry, not so much.

Solution: Fix the spelling of "Carabinier", then swap the assignment of the name to the Nemesis troops now called Armigers. Now you've got carbineers carrying what look like carbines, other soldiers whose name doesn't imply any particular type of weapon carrying the war trombone, the names are spelled right, and Napoleonic military pedants the world over are happy.