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PostPosted: Mon Nov 02, 2009 3:40 am 
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Lately I have frequently been unable to find boards topics which are older than a few years. Yet this board has been in use since 2001 or 2002, and on the boards of our sister clubs you can find topics back to that date. What happened to our older posts? It's a pity of course, as this is basically our history, as we keep no records of old web pages with older OOBs and so on ... being a historian, this loss of memory of our cherished club is painful to me.

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I must forcibly echo General Walter's concerns. What <i>has</i> happened to the club's MD archives? There was a wealth of information contained in those pages, rich in the discussion of game rules and the application of Civil War history to them, not to mention the invaluable, indirect record of the club's own evolution. Please tell me that all of that has not been deleted!

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I would be very helpful to a noob like me if I can reach back a few years into this forum.

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I found posts going back to, at least, 2002. There were 144 pages of posts when I searched the archives using the word "war".

So, maybe all is not lost.[^]

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The archived posts are not shown on the forum. However if you do a search and put a check mark in the Archived Posts box you will get posts going back at least to 2003 that I found and Ernie says he went back to 2002. I believe there was a crash sometime around 2001-2 that cost us the archived forums from previous years which is a shame, lots of interesting posts from my first two years here when there were only a couple clubs out there and a lot more story tellers among the members here.


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Gentlemen, this is extremely odd. Several times in the past year or so I had searched for older threads in which I knew I had posted and never could find them. I just tried again now and indeed they're there! Maybe I was just dumb before, although people who know me from the CCC or NWC know that I tend to do that--pull up really old posts to show that things have been discussed before. So I know how it's done ... including "archived posts". Very odd.

Well, here is one of the things I had lately been looking for ...

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... anybody still remember these? Which games, exactly, are they from? [;)]

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Here is another old discussion I had recently tried to pull up from the archives and failed ... a rant by me on "the demise of the roleplaying clubs" and the interesting reactions by fellow club members.

http://www.wargame.ch/board/acw/topic.a ... IC_ID=8831


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<blockquote id="quote"><font size="3" face="book antiqua" id="quote">quote:<hr height="1" noshade id="quote"><i>Originally posted by D.S. Walter</i>
<br />Here is another old discussion I had recently tried to pull up from the archives and failed ... a rant by me on "the demise of the roleplaying clubs" and the interesting reactions by fellow club members.

http://www.wargame.ch/board/acw/topic.a ... IC_ID=8831
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Yes! That was a great discussion and the topic got a lot of mileage.[:D]

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<blockquote id="quote"><font size="3" face="book antiqua" id="quote">quote:<hr height="1" noshade id="quote"><i>Originally posted by Bill Peters</i>
<br />Dierk - those were graphics from the BG series showing the oddities they added ...
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Of course! But do you know which one's from which game? Even though I posted these some years ago I can no longer recall where I found them all ...

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The first and fourth image are from Chickamauga/Murfreesboro, judging by the East/West Front terrain graphics which featured in that game. I haven't got the Talonsoft games installed these days so can't check the other two.

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<blockquote id="quote"><font size="3" face="book antiqua" id="quote">quote:<hr height="1" noshade id="quote"><i>Originally posted by D.S. Walter</i>
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Well, here is one of the things I had lately been looking for ...

ImageImageImageImage

... anybody still remember these? Which games, exactly, are they from? [;)]<hr height="1" noshade id="quote"></blockquote id="quote"></font id="quote">

Since I'm playing exclusively the Matrix versions of the BG series, these are all familiar to me. They are from Murfreesboro, Shilo, Shilo, Murfreesboro, respectively.

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I believe that's true. The washing is in Sherman's Camp on the Shiloh map; the boat with the fisherman is somewhere down left on that map. The pond with the shark is somewhere near the Round Forest on the Stones River map. Surely the nymphs dancing around a fountain, or whatever else anybody sees in the first snapshot, is the oddest motive on any one the maps ... somewhere on the wrong side of the river at Stones River I think?

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<blockquote id="quote"><font size="3" face="book antiqua" id="quote">quote:<hr height="1" noshade id="quote">... anybody still remember these? Which games, exactly, are they from? <hr height="1" noshade id="quote"></blockquote id="quote"></font id="quote">

That first one has bugged me so much since I first saw it. It's on the east side of Stones River, by the map's edge in the center/right. I've actually fought down there before.
The shark pond (I never saw that shark before) is closer to the railroad bridge than the Round Forest, I think.

Were there any others, or are those four it for Easter Eggs?

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I don't know. I think I appreciated these as markers that proved that these maps were hand-drawn, and by real people. The HPS maps from generic tiles are much smaller as a file (not that it would matter any more these days), but they tend to look all the same.

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Although I don't own any games from the BG series, it looks like the artists liked to throw in small anomalies to liven the landscape. Like the shark in the pool- what a kick.

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