Napoleonic Wargame Club (NWC)

I know it's a bit early for such a suggestion with all the holes that have to be plugged first but I thought in case work is being done on the forum I should put this idea out in case it's less work to incorporate it right away instead of later.

So working through all the threads I missed I see that at least 1/3 of them cover things like announcing promotions, rewarding titles, command appointments, congratulations for victories or whatever an so on and so forth.
Now couldn't we put all this stuff into a new sub-forum, maybe called "The Parade Ground" or something like that?
With a single place to post all this we would not only get that stuff out of the Rhine Tavern but also out of each of the Armies forums so these places would be clean of the paperwork.

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An interesting idea.

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Ernie Sands
1ère Brigade of 2ème Division de Grosse Cavalerie, Réserve de Cavalerie
de la Grande Armée
President, Colonial Campaigns Club

This is actually one reason why I changed my format for the Prussian Armee years back, as folks complained about all the announcements, I just started a Newsletter every once in a while to announce them and then did internal emails when the event happened....

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Generalfeldmarschall Scott Kronprinz "Vorwärts" Ludwig von Preußen
Kommandeur des Königlich-Preußischen Armee-Korps
Chief of Staff (CoS) of the Allied Coalition
Allied Coalition Webmaster & Club Website Support

All members deserve to be recognized for their efforts and all officers should celebrate with them!!

It becomes hard when one side is more dominant than the other and that shows through at times. But open recognition was a issue that members had in those forces and wanted. So it shouldn't stop for any force.

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Generalfeldmarschall Scott Kronprinz "Vorwärts" Ludwig von Preußen
Kommandeur des Königlich-Preußischen Armee-Korps
Chief of Staff (CoS) of the Allied Coalition
Allied Coalition Webmaster & Club Website Support

Well the situation was difficult as the Coalition was very dormant during these times. Plus the French are the largest army, so naturally they'd have the most. I see it like this, if that path is picked to go a consolidated post is what is needed or it is not done as often as it was. Most folks like it, but are cool if it takes a bit to get posted. At the CCC we do all our updates and posts of this nature once a month and no one has really complained much on it over the years, as folks are here to game & have fun.

So finding a good balance is key, if we don't do a subforum.

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Generalfeldmarschall Scott Kronprinz "Vorwärts" Ludwig von Preußen
Kommandeur des Königlich-Preußischen Armee-Korps
Chief of Staff (CoS) of the Allied Coalition
Allied Coalition Webmaster & Club Website Support

Besides stopping the clutter it may also minimize the workload, doing 1 thread instead 2 will cost a bit less time.
Another good thing is that a single thread will likely be longer with all congratulation into that instead of being spread between the Rhine Tavern and the Armies tavern, so the thread will be longer what surely is a small moral boost to the one that gets the attention.
And when a member takes his time to look over such a sub-forum he will maybe see not one but more familiar names already on the first page and will likely congratulation some old enemies for there success, that may even move both Armies of this club closer together what can only be good.

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Yes I have to say that is an interesting suggestion. I too found the daily listings rather cloying and tried to ignore them. The problem would be though, who would bother reading a Parade Ground forum? I personally wouldn't.

I think Christian hit it on the head with the capitalization of "congratulations" given to someone who won an award in one post. I still advocate for it being in the Rhine, where most everyone will visit, but in a limited nature. Another example I did with Prussia years ago, when it was active, was one post for all promotions, one post for all new recruits, one post for all medals & awards, one for new assignments/commands and one post for all nobility titles et al.

Chances are your nobility title posts won't be made every month, so that leaves three and often only two, the promotions and awards being made, so it cuts way down on all the clutter and makes the forums easier to read, as well as places the most emphasis on the gathering of members to send their wishes to....

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Generalfeldmarschall Scott Kronprinz "Vorwärts" Ludwig von Preußen
Kommandeur des Königlich-Preußischen Armee-Korps
Chief of Staff (CoS) of the Allied Coalition
Allied Coalition Webmaster & Club Website Support

We used to have a Newsletter... where every corps/army would send a dispatch with the news... That could also be an option to revive.

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Général David Guegan

3ème Régiment de Grenadiers - Bataillon d'élite du 3ème Légère
2ème Brigade
Grenadiers de la Réserve
Réserve
La Grande Armée
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"From the sublime to the ridiculous is but a step."
Napoléon Bonaparte

Military justice is to justice what military music is to music.
Groucho Marx

I put a suggestion somewhere else... but since this topic is about subforum I guess I can repeat it here:



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Général David Guegan

3ème Régiment de Grenadiers - Bataillon d'élite du 3ème Légère
2ème Brigade
Grenadiers de la Réserve
Réserve
La Grande Armée
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"From the sublime to the ridiculous is but a step."
Napoléon Bonaparte

Military justice is to justice what military music is to music.
Groucho Marx

Indeed
I miss the newsletter much
And the suggestion about sub forum is to my liking along with the same as ACW with entering taverns ;o)
After few words with Helga here one can so easily forget the password between pubs ,I mean taverns ;o)

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Général de Division Einar Jon Masson

Well if no sub-forum is used I would like to modify Scott's idea, each side could do a command report each month a "Monthly Report" thread and put all the stuff collected over the month in the first post and it could maybe even incorporate other things like how many victories/draws/defeats were achieved or how many new member joined etc.
And when the next report goes live the old thread is archived or at least the initial post with all the data in it, that couldbe a sort of collecting the "history" of each side.

I just wonder how the guys in charge do their work and what would be easier for them.

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We can give the parade ground idea a try. What I find though is that the Rhine Tavern is where most of the post are and therefore easy to catch new stuff.

I will give the CiC the thought and see what they say.

I read somewhere, that a Pic would be nice for the Rhine tavern. I took a look and did not find anything suitable. If you guys have some send them to me so that I can have a look.

All ideas and suggestions are welcome.

Thanks,

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General en Chef Pierre D.
La Grande Armee
25ème Régiment de Dragons,
Détachement de la 3ème Corps d'Armée,
3ème Corps d'Armée