It's... well, as I said before, profoundly satisfying, and yet really concise too. Nifty.
Even editing the thing, I was fairly stunned at the work Herb (and others!) put into the comprehensive unit lists.
If you've read the book, you've seen that there are a couple of tables providing a simple count of the number of regiments each House possessed in a given year and inherited from the SLDF. At one point, I noted that they didn't quite jive--two different numbers for a particular year, etc.
Reviewing the notes with Herb, I figured the fix would be to just pick one number or the other and make the tables consistent. Oh, no. He was able to arrive at a third, correct number by
counting up each individual unit, because he had accounted for all of them.
So many games would just hand-wave and fudge stuff like that. It's a bad thing to get
too hung up on--the game's the thing, after all, and getting too pedantic is no fun. But with the work already done, it was amazing to see it in action.