Colonial Campaigns Club (CCC)

In an effort to provide an environment both more attractive and more challenging for their officers &c., the British Armies in America are being reorganized. The main purpose of the reorganization is to streamline the OOB and thereby to form more compact, more viable entities that have the potential of developing a certain esprit de corps and small unit identity that has partially been lacking in the loosely organized brigades and departments the army has consisted of so far.

To that end, the following changes are now being implemented:

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1) DEPARTMENT CONSOLIDATION

The existing six wings or departments are consolidated into four larger entities that, while individually keeping their traditional names, will from now on collectively be referred to as "corps", and their commanding officers as "corps commanders". The army will henceforth consist of the following four corps:

- Left Wing (in its present composition)
- Centre Column (in its present composition, less the Brigade of Guards)
- Right Wing (formed from the former Right Wing and the former Royal North American Corps of 1812-15)
- Reserve Corps (comprising the Hessisches Kontingent and the Provicials)

The Left Wing and Centre Column will remain under their present commanders. Brig. General Stefan Reuter will be the commander of the new Right Wing, and Lt. Ken Counselman will assume command of the Reserve Corps.

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2) BRIGADE CONSOLIDATION

Within the corps, all currently vacant regiments are stricken from the OOB, and new brigades of at least five "taken" regiments each are formed, so to avoid having brigades that are an empty shell for all practical purposes. By the same token, brigade commanders and higher "lose" their own regiment. A brigade or corps command is not an honorary appointment, but rather a very actual position of responsibility within the army and the club, so that, when someone accepts a higher command position, he cannot at the same time keep his regiment as a fallback position. Rather, the former regiment should be available for new recruits.

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3) UNIT AVAILABILITY AND ASSIGNMENT OF RECRUITS

Henceforth the British Armies in America will have no separate corps for the three wars the club covers (F&I, 1776, 1812). Rather, a new recruit can, if he so wishes, request any unit that historically fought in at least one of these three wars, provided it is not already taken. This unit will then be "sent to the colonies" (or raised there, in case of a provincial unit) and the new commander and his regiment assigned to an existing brigade and corps, without regard for the actual historical context the unit has fought in. Regiments will be historical, but brigades and corps will only be instruments of club administration and small group identity.

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4) BRIGADE OF GUARDS

The Brigade of Guards will acquire an entirely new function with the reorganization. Henceforth, it will form an elite outfit within the army and officers will be given the chance to be transferred to the Guards when they have reached the rank of Captain and have either an excellent battlefield record or contributed considerably to the army and club life in another way, subject to the joint judgement of their corps commander and the Commander-in-Chief. This way hopefully the option of being commissioned into the Guards will be an incentive for junior officers to contribute to the club, and the Brigade of Guards will be transformed into an elite combat formation everyone will be proud to be a member of.

A transfer to the Guards will be purely optional, rather than automatic, once the requirements are met. It will be perfectly acceptable for instance for a department CO to keep his command rather than transfer to the Guards. He will then retain the eligibility for the Guards and will have the option to transfer for instance when he steps down from his command position at some later date. In the same way, a regimental commander may elect to remain in his brigade and department rather than accept his transfer to the Guards.

As there are only three regiments of Foot Guards in the army, a command slot in the Guards will be a company, not a regiment as in the line army. Deserving officers can of course be appointed to command a regiment in the Guards, which will then roughly equal a brigade command in the line.

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These changes are now being implemented, and the corps commanders are hereby requested to upload their new pages, where we have already agreed on a new OOB, or to contact me with the details of their new OOB, where we have not. The army main pages have already been updated to reflect the new structure.

Gentlemen, I sincerely hope that this reorganization will contribute to making this army more attractive for all of us. If you have any questions with respect to the changes and the new structure, please don't hesitate to contact your corps commander, or your Commander-in-Chief.

Changes won't help to defeat us in a million years[}:)]

Still, it will always be easy to defeat me as I get one major loss after one major loss...

Corporal, this reorganization is a purely internal matter of the British Armies and doesn't affect the other armies, or the battles our officers are engaged in. [:)]

Don't let him fool you Corporal. This "internal" matter will find it's way to the Americas as some sort of "Reorganization Tax". Avoid the tax, shoot British Officers early.....

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Typical of Redcoats, they try to always be so organized. If they would quit paying those Hessians and throw a little yellow rock our way they wouldn't have so many morale problems...

Always trying to make people march to Rule Brittania...

Such skeptics![}:)][B)][:p]