Napoleonic Wargame Club (NWC)

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Could we know what it is about?

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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

Of course you can. It would be an effort to document the how ranks correspond to each other across the armies. For example, what does a French Sous LT equal in the AAA, Prussian, Russian and Austrian armies. The goal would be to make the promotions as standardized as is possible. Also, there could be some effort to standardize the awarding of points for training across the armies both for the trainer and trainee. At the moment the President is making a table to chart equivalent ranks. This will be presented to their membership when it is completed. Still in the early stages.

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Field Marshal Sir Edward Blackburn, 1st Duke of Aberdeen K.G.
85th (Buck's Light Volunteers) Regiment of Foot
16th British Brigade
7th Division
III (Peninsular) Corps
2nd Battalion, Coldstream Regiment of Foot Guards

What is the reason for doing that? Isn't it to each side to decide within themselves what they want (as long that they get the same treatment in that said side/army)?

Did someone complain about it?

We have been assured many times that each army/side could work thier own way without Cabinet interfering with them.

It's ain't broken don't fix it....

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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

French Sous Lt = Coalition Field Marshal or Feldmarschall

Documentation complete, moving on.

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Marechal Jeff Bardon
Duc de Castiglione et Prince de Wagram
Commandant de la Garde Imperiale

Salute!

Jeff Bardon wrote:

French Sous Lt = Coalition Field Marshal or Feldmarschall

Documentation complete, moving on.



Regards,

Thank you Jeff, I was just going to ask you.

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Field Marshal Sir Edward Blackburn, 1st Duke of Aberdeen K.G.
85th (Buck's Light Volunteers) Regiment of Foot
16th British Brigade
7th Division
III (Peninsular) Corps
2nd Battalion, Coldstream Regiment of Foot Guards

Since some people want to standardize everything maybe we should stop having armies and end up like the Blitz.... That seems to be anyway where we are heading.

When I joined this club many years ago I joined because I liked that each army was different. That spirit seems to die little by little.

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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
--------------------------
"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

David,

This club is nothing like the Blitz.

Just because there is some uniformity to the ranking system is a minimal adjustment - after all, there was and is a standardization of equivalency to military ranks - in the real world presently, and historically.

What is more of an adjustment is the points necessary to achieve these ranks - making them more equitable across the club armies.

You say the spirit within each army of being different is dying...
I fail to see how the adjusting of ranks, which is nothing out of the ordinary equates to a dying spirit.

Frankly, when I joined this club several years ago I found it to be quite stale, if I may say so.
Now, I find that there is far more interaction among the officers within each army and across the divide.

And very importantly, officers now receive timely awarding of promotions in rank and medals earned in the cauldron of battle upon the campaign maps.

I'll take this improvement over the months that passed waiting for such acknowledgement in the past.

Each to our own view, but I'll take the progress and evolution of the NWC as it currently stands any day of the week.

Regards,

What I see is that there are less than 200 active officers in the club which is less than what we had when we finished the year 2013.

So yes we know the Mantra "it's better now than before". Sure it's better but why stop there?

I haven't heard anybody complain about their ranks and the way members move up in ranks. So to me it doesn't seem to be a priority within the club.

But what seems to be a priority is to have :
- a tournament running
- take care of recruitment.

Since Mr Schmidgall you are the officer in charge of finding new ways to recruit members could you enlighten us of what you have done so far after 4 months in office? Do you need help? Have you created a NWC page on Facebook? etc...

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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

Salute!

david wrote: What I see is that there are less than 200 active officers in the club which is less than what we had when we finished the year 2013.

Just because you have a muster roll with a certain number of names on it - that does not equate to the reality of who actually is a participating member - and I mean that in the broadest sense possible.

A muster roll of non-active members is a faux reality - that does nothing more than make a statistician who covets high numbers as a value very happy.

Not to mention fake memberships, and individuals attempting to create them on an on-going basis.

In fact I've had a crash course of late in learning about fake personae's and trying to understand what motivates some people to engage in the subterfuge of creating a false identity and attempting to fool others in who they are.

As for acting as PR officer for the club I learned much of the process involved from talking with former PR officers and the documentation they left behind to guide those that follow after.
Including having joined several clubs and engaging people I meet there in discussions about our like interests in gaming and internet gaming clubs, etc.

There are gaming clubs that offer varying degrees of interest to their members.

I personally have yet to find one that offers the levels of membership interaction the NWC (and our affiliated historical clubs) provides and manifests through our vibrant forums and club armies.

And it is in this area that I spend much time as well, interacting with new as well as longtime members, to learn from them what it is they enjoy (or not) about the NWC, what they would like to see here, etc.

I'm happy to say we have a broad array of members with a variety of interests in our shared passion for Napoleonic war gaming, and there is much to be discovered and shared between us.

Regards,

In order for the points system to have maximal meaning I think they need to be standardized. For example one army awarding 100 pts. while another awards 3 pts. for the exact same function is out of accord. We are discussing standardizing admin functions which make managing the club easier and the points system more meaningful. We all want to see the various flavors of the different armies maintained.

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Field Marshal Sir Edward Blackburn, 1st Duke of Aberdeen K.G.
85th (Buck's Light Volunteers) Regiment of Foot
16th British Brigade
7th Division
III (Peninsular) Corps
2nd Battalion, Coldstream Regiment of Foot Guards

And what about creating a facebook page for the club. It's easy to setup and it might help connect members and prospective members?

Also I have heard a few people asking for a tournament, is it something we will see acter summer to help pick-up activity?

What about contacting figurines clubs?

Etc...

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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
--------------------------
"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

Interesting idea, would it have to be setup under an individuals name?

We are working on a tourny and were thinking it would be best to start in the fall when everyone is back from vacays.

Not sure on the figurine clubs unfortunately I never have been involved in miniatures. I don't have the patience for all that painting.

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Field Marshal Sir Edward Blackburn, 1st Duke of Aberdeen K.G.
85th (Buck's Light Volunteers) Regiment of Foot
16th British Brigade
7th Division
III (Peninsular) Corps
2nd Battalion, Coldstream Regiment of Foot Guards