Et tu, Rockslider? ;)

I happen to be a bit of a plane nut for WWII - F4U Corsairs, Supermarine Spitfires, Bf 109s, etc. However, I am familiar with the tanks as well, a lot of that knowledge having been acquired recently as part of a tiny hobby-project in which I've been formulating my own design for a WWII RTS game (though I'm not honestly sure any good will ever come of it - I mostly just find it fun to do as a tiny side-project to keep myself occupied). My idea is somewhere between Blitzkrieg and Rise of Nations; more production-oriented than Blitzkrieg, and more small-scale than RoN.

Anyways, I'm sure that weapon distinctions, such as the distinction between Chain-guns and Gatling guns or Railguns and Coilguns, are a very fuzzy thing for most people. Even I've fallen prey to both of those examples, though at least I can resolve those errors. Sometimes it gets particularly fuzzy. For example, the distinction between a Howitzer and an ordinary field artillery piece, or the definition of a Mountain gun, is not very clear. Guys in the Armed Forces probably have a much better sense of the distinctions and definitions, but even so, nobody bothers to correct the public misconceptions. I guess partly there's rarely any chance or need to.

Vale,
Perseus