American Civil War Game Club (ACWGC)

OK. What gave me away? Was it because I kept using my shoe to call 99?

Lt. Gen. Don Adams (Agent 86)
5th Texas "Lone Star" Cavalry Brigade
I/III ANV
http://www.rootsandsaddles.com/index.htm

I think anyname for the Forum is fine. Fake, real, roleplaying, whatever. But you should sign with your correct unit and name.

Shhhhh, my real name is Pablo Despiértese a hombre.
(or Paul Wachen Sie Mann auf) [:0]

<font color="gold"><b>Lt. Col. </b></font id="gold">Paul Wakeman, <font color="limegreen">Sharpshooter</font id="limegreen">
<font color="beige">3rd</font id="beige"> '<font color="red">Jayhawk</font id="red">' <font color="beige">Brigade
1st Light Inf. Div.</font id="beige">
<b>XIX Corps, AoS,<font color="gold"> USA</font id="gold"></b>



Cartographer

Sometimes, you have to used an assumed identity due to real life jobs, duties, etc.

Signed,

G. Bush, Jr.

[:o)]

Major General Dirk Gross
CAV DIV/XIV Corps/AoC

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<br />OK. What gave me away? Was it because I kept using my shoe to call 99?
Lt. Gen. Don Adams (Agent 86)
5th Texas "Lone Star" Cavalry Brigade
I/III ANV
http://www.rootsandsaddles.com/index.htm

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come on Don "Get Smart"[:D]

Maj.Gen. Les Knight
**Corcoran's Legion** 2nd/VIII
Army of the Shenandoah USA

Thank you Les. I was beginning to wonder if anyone else besides me[:)] was "old" enough to remember! Or it was so bad everybody was just ignoring it?

No one at the AoP or Clump of Trees Tavern raids has caught my story line there. Maybe some day. Of course it really is corny, but true from what I hear.[:0]

Lt. Gen. Don Adams
5th Texas "Lone Star" Cavalry Brigade
I/III ANV
http://www.rootsandsaddles.com/index.htm

I wouldn't mind (then) contacting Agent 99.
And I was ___ this close!

<b><font color="gold">Ernie Sands
LtGen, CO XXIII Corps, AoO

President, Colonial Campaigns Club
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Ok gents I apologize my real name is Christopher Cross.[:D]

Maj. Gen. Chris Cross
Chief of Staff, CSA

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<br />Ok gents I apologize my real name is Christopher Cross.[:D]

Maj. Gen. Chris Cross
Chief of Staff, CSA
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I think I have some of your CD's![:D]

<b><font color="gold">Ernie Sands
LtGen, CO XXIII Corps, AoO

President, Colonial Campaigns Club
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<br />Thank you Les. I was beginning to wonder if anyone else besides me[:)] was "old" enough to remember! Or it was so bad everybody was just ignoring it?

Lt. Gen. Don Adams
5th Texas "Lone Star" Cavalry Brigade
I/III ANV
http://www.rootsandsaddles.com/index.htm

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Gentlemen,

Pay attention to General Adams. Would you believe he's backed by three corps of screaming Confederate infantry?

Would you believe a regiment with a cavalry escort?

Would you believe a couple of Boy Scouts and an old lady?


Your humble servant,
LGen 'Dee Dubya' Mallory

David W. Mallory
ACW - Lieutenant General, Chief of the Armies, Confederate States of America
CCC - Corporal, Georgia Volunteers, Southern Regional Deaprtment, Colonial American Army

So I take it that the end result of this thread is that the club doesn't care if I change my name to Threadbare and thus Ned Simms disappears from the OOB and Muster and forums and is replaced with Col Threadbare who keeps the OOB points earned by Ned Simms, just as long as the name change is announced in the forum.

And next year, I can change my name again to Bruised Bottom and the same conditions will apply. No DC, CC, AC, TC, CoA, or Cabinet Member can stop it from occurring.

It doesn't have to be maintained anywhere within the club records that Ned Simms ever existed. I can change my name to S***Face and no one can stop it because it might be considered vulgar or change it to Mark Nelms1 or come up with a name that is 40 characters long and NOBODY can stop it.

It sounds a bit loose to me, fellas. I think that ACWGC Regulation 365-17 on Acceptable Naming Conventions still might need some review, but then I'm just one guy with one opinion, probably too military of an opinion at that. I just think that you anticipate trouble and nip it in the bud before it arrives. Drop and give me 40, Private (man, I'm tired of my wife doing that to me)!

Col Ned Simms
2/VI/AoS
Blood 'n Guts hisself, a land lovin' pirate. Show me some arty tubes and we'll charge 'em.

Colonel Threadbare:

(Or should I say, "To the officer formerly known as Ned Simms"? [:D] )

The club prefers real names. (It's been mentioned before that makes it much easier when guys forget their passwords!) Still, I do understand the desire by many to remain anonymous on the web. It doesn't really matter to me what moniker an officer goes by.

And don't worry, the Southern Raiders Tavern will still keep track of you, Colonel Bruised Bottom / a.k.a. Threadbare / a.k.a. S***face / a.k.a. Mark Nelms1 / a.k.a. Ned Simms. You can run, but you can't hide [:D] !


Your humble servant,
LGen 'Dee Dubya' Mallory

David W. Mallory
ACW - Lieutenant General, Chief of the Armies, Confederate States of America
CCC - Corporal, Georgia Volunteers, Southern Regional Deaprtment, Colonial American Army

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<br />So I take it that the end result of this thread is that the club doesn't care if I change my name to Threadbare ...
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Hm, did anyone actually say that? There was a variety of opinions, but I don't feel that anyone sounded much in favor of fake names, or frequent name changes.

Two of our sister clubs (the MBC and the NCC) require real names, period. I just think one has to admit that there is little chance of actually proving that someone uses a fake name, unless he uses two different ones at the same time, or changes it--both proves that at least *one* of the two must be fake. (Unless there are countries in the world where a person is not obliged to have a "real", i.e. state-registered, name.)

Gen. Walter, USA
AoS / War College

As to changing your name on the official club record site that will soon be coming on line, it ain't gonna happen unless an Army Commander or above does it for you. [:)] And, yes, if you do change it, everything associated with you stays with you because you are tracked by a permamnent ID number, not your name or email address or whatever.

As to what happens at this particular forum if you change your name, I would have no clue to that.

By the way, today was my last day of this school year so I am off for the summer. Now I can get busy on finishing the new site. Some things happened in the last couple of days on the site that paved the way for me to get it finished. Target release date is Tiller Con I![:p]

Lt. Gen. Don Adams
5th Texas "Lone Star" Cavalry Brigade
I/III ANV
http://www.rootsandsaddles.com/index.htm

"As to changing your name on the official club record site that will soon be coming on line, it ain't gonna happen unless an Army Commander or above does it for you."

Thank you Don and I agree with that but now we're getting down to the source of the problem in the past. What does the club say should happen instead of what one Army Commander or above thinks. In the past, one Army Commander or above would say "No" while other Army Commanders or above would say "Yes". I'm trying to get this decision standardized so that all are treated equally, whether blue or gray, or AoA or AoO.

This kinda breaks down into the same type of disagreements that started the ACW in the first place. States Righters would say that the ACs have the right to make up their own minds regardless of how the others do it, and Federalists would say that the Central Government should decide and the states must abide by the decision. I guess that I'm a Federalist.

Col Ned Simms
2/VI/AoS
Blood 'n Guts hisself, a land lovin' pirate. Show me some arty tubes and we'll charge 'em.

Ned,

I agree with you 100%. This club is different than most in that we deal with one another in a personal way as if some day we might actually meet somewhere in real life. (Tiller Con anyone?) The best way to go, in my humble opinion, is with our real names. Nick names are fine, but with your real name included, such as: Don "Maxwell Smart" Adams, just as we do: 5th Texas "Lone Star" Cavalry Brigade, 1st "Phantom Division", "The Swamp Legion" III Corps, ANV which to the club database is simply ANV III 1 5. We can have all the fun and nicknames we want, but at the same time keep things constant for record keeping purposes. One of the decisions that came out of a recent discussion of the Units was how to handle the different names and designations for Corps, Divisions, and Brigades, whether Cavalry, Infantry, Artillery or what. The concensus was that the basic numbering system of the club would be standardized for record keeping and reporting, but that the individual websites could continue using whatever they had always been using. It really helped simplify the record keeping aspects of the club. It may be called the "Reserve Division", "Phantom Division" or whatever on the "local" Army's website, but in the club records it has a number instead of that name. It gives a rigid structure to the club organization, but at the same time gives complete flexibility in the "local" naming conventions. If a new commander takes over and wants to call the AoP the "River Rats" it is no problem and has no effect on the club records.

I hope all of that made sense. [:p] And I hope I also made clear it is my opinion that everyone should be using their real names. I have always "assumed" (a dangerous thing to do) that is what everyone was doing in the first place. Kind of like it just makes sense that in this club you only belong to one side at a time. It is not written anywhere as a rule, but common sense dictates that.[8D]



Lt. Gen. Don Adams
5th Texas "Lone Star" Cavalry Brigade
I/III ANV
http://www.rootsandsaddles.com/index.htm