Ausfallkampf
English translation: sortie battle
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| 03:45 May 25, 2004 |
| German to English translations [PRO] Military / Defense / Milit�r/Strategiespiel | |||||||
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|  Selected response from: Ken Cox Local time: 11:33 | ||||||
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| 5 | hand-to-hand combat |
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| 3 +2 | sortie battle |
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| 3 | dislocated combat |
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1 hr confidence: 
dislocated combat Explanation: Well, the crew in a stronghold is supposed to stronghold the location. If the members of the crew go for a combat outside of the stronghold, they are dislocated. That is the reason why I would call such a combat as "dislocated combat." Let's see what would the native-speakers say about this. |
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10 hrs confidence:
hand-to-hand combat Explanation: My German Military Dico, TM 30-506 gives "sortie" for "Ausfall," but given the description in your context, I would translate "Ausfallkampf" as "hand-to-hand combat." |
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3 hrs confidence: peer agreement (net): +2
peer agreement (net): +2sortie battle Explanation: In the military sense, an Ausfall is a sortie (per Oxford/Duden)(or a rally, but in this context 'sortie' fits better), and 'sortie battle' is a literal translation of the combined word; perhaps there's a better military term for this (a sortie need not necessarily involve a battle, methinks). -------------------------------------------------- Note added at 10 hrs 46 mins (2004-05-25 14:32:12 GMT) -------------------------------------------------- another possibility would be \'sortie skirmishing\' (a skirmish is defined as \'an episode of irregular or unpremeditated fighting, especially between small or outlying parts of armies or fleets\'(Oxford) |
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