Blood for the Baron!

"The Black Major figure was supplied with a black AK-47 rifle and a red codebook which deciphered the lettering used on Red Shadow vehicles..."

Man! I just noticed this! That is so cool! So, what do the vehicles say? This U.S. boy really wants to know! (I could never figure out the weird black symbols on the Red Shadow vehicles at all, either!)

: I'll never tell! Heh! Heh! Blood for the Major!!!

Aw man! I meant to put this under the "General Discussion" category! How did it end up here? Sorry about that!

Here it is


You can puzzle for yourself, that?s quite a bit more entertaining than giving the names itself.

Man, do I look like I want to work for it? Sheesh! Some people!

: No one may gaze upon the sacred Little Red Book and live! Grrrr...

seaneley wrote:Man, do I look like I want to work for it? Sheesh! Some people!

: No one may gaze upon the sacred Little Red Book and live! Grrrr...

You are not getting them from me
To much work not enough interest

How about Black Majors code emoticons?

Good idea or not??

That rocks!!!

"жЯпη!!!" **
"Er... cannot compute... repeat please!!"
"TAKE THEM AWAY!!"
"Roger roger!!"

Anyway, all those years at private school and Lympstone weren't wasted on the Black Major after all... Russian, ?Greek, ?Runes etc. all worked nicely in to that little krasnaya kneega.



** PS Bollocks, can't post non-Western characters... emoticons it is then!

Okay... I'll accept runes! All you Brits are related to Norsemen anyway, aren't you? (says the "pure-blooded" Irish - Welsh - Scots - German - American...)

Well we were more a mundane breed of Romano-Celtic-Anglo-Saxon-Frisian-Danish-Norse and thus Romano-Germanic at least up until the last war I suppose; with plenty of banal Normanised-Norse skulking about with their hollow shoulders and tedious accents, airs and graces adding to the mix of course.

Anyway, the big symbols on the vehicles are mainly in Cyrillic (Russian character set) I translated them from the book once in my youth but found no great meaning hidden there, post some pics if you want 'em translating literally from Russki as well but remember to say pozhelsta first.

Some of the character sets maybe from the Cyrillic character sets used uniquely to render Kazakh, Krygyz and Mongolian. You can check 'em out on Word's insert symbol menu.

Dossvidanya

Quickfire wrote:
Anyway, the big symbols on the vehicles are mainly in Cyrillic (Russian character set) I translated them from the book once in my youth but found no great meaning hidden there, post some pics if you want 'em translating literally from Russki as well but remember to say pozhelsta first.

I think there is more to this. I too looked for meaning, especially in the two symbols that mark the vehicles (the equivalents of G & K) and I think the are the first letters, phonetically, of the Russian words for 'iron' and 'blood'. I may be remembering incorrectly, it was twenty or so years ago, but I'll dig out some books and confirm.

Jimbo