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This is awesome - I love the ruleset, the fog of war, and the need for preplanned orders. One idea that dramatically increases the PITA factor but might also increase the Fun: different threads for each brigade/corps/whatever level of organization you want to deal with, so that central command on each side has to react to messages from the front describing what they see instead of having perfect information about what their underlings are dealing with.
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Trin Tragula posted:Oh yeah, and that map needs some names, people. The central town with the railroad is obviously Goonêville.
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Feb 8, 2017 20:20
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Obv we need some US expeditionaries named the Goon Doughboys 
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Notahippie posted:This is awesome - I love the ruleset, the fog of war, and the need for preplanned orders. One idea that dramatically increases the PITA factor but might also increase the Fun: different threads for each brigade/corps/whatever level of organization you want to deal with, so that central command on each side has to react to messages from the front describing what they see instead of having perfect information about what their underlings are dealing with. Well, the problem with that is first that you probably don't want to flood the forum with threads, second that most observers probably don't want to keep track of so many threads, and third that the sides will probably use Roll20 anyway, rendering the whole thing moot.
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Feb 8, 2017 20:28
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I would like to join the Entente and play the part of an incompetent military leader!
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Feb 8, 2017 20:41
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The cities on the extreme left of the map, top to bottom, are Faibleimpôt-les-Carreaux, Haltebruit, and Quatreprout.
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Feb 8, 2017 21:10
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So who's gonna be the Churchill? Drunkenly bumbling into rooms and unloading his latest genius idea "Fuckit we're invading Gallipoli and inventing tanks!"
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Feb 8, 2017 21:22
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Threads for each side are now opening. Once you read past the siren, you're committed either to neutrality or to fighting for that particular side in the upcoming battle. It's okay to come back in here for a while longer, do some place-naming, see who's signing up; I'll put more sirens up when that goes off. Entente Germans
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Feb 8, 2017 22:21
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I have no idea what I am doing and I am proud to be doing so for France. Vive la France!
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Feb 8, 2017 23:24
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For the victory of Liberté, égalité and fraternité, I gladly join France in fighting the vicious Huns!
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Feb 8, 2017 23:39
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The large central town of St. Croissants holds great strategic importance
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Feb 8, 2017 23:59
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my dad posted:edit: Switching to Entente, since nobody seems to want to play as them. Applying for the position of the supreme commander. brb, writing terrible poetry about this
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Feb 9, 2017 00:46
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I will join the Germans.
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Feb 9, 2017 01:09
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So can you tell us what the general objective is or will we have to wait to hear the orders from command?
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Feb 9, 2017 01:45
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Hunt11 posted:So can you tell us what the general objective is or will we have to wait to hear the orders from command? the general objective is Victory!, secondary objectives are Die Gloriously For Your Country!, Give Those Foreigners A drat Good Thrashing!, and (BEF only) A Cup Of Tea!
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Feb 9, 2017 01:48
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and the poetry has to be bad. i cannot stress enough how terrible it must be.
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Feb 9, 2017 01:52
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Hunt11 posted:So can you tell us what the general objective is or will we have to wait to hear the orders from command? When both sides appear to have agreed on a corps commander, the corps commander will be given objectives.
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Feb 9, 2017 01:58
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Would like to join the Entente team.
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Feb 9, 2017 01:59
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Maj.Gen. T.B.K. Pommedeterre posted:Lo! the Muse of War doth call Translators Note: In the French forces a Major General was referred to as a Général de Division
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Feb 9, 2017 02:04
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I will do my bit for the Kaiser and fight for Germany
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Feb 9, 2017 02:19
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Vive la France!
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Feb 9, 2017 02:47
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HEY GAIL posted:and the poetry has to be bad. i cannot stress enough how terrible it must be. Is good poetry a '16 or '17 unlock?
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Feb 9, 2017 02:57
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I'll tentatively sign up as a German. A particularly incompetent German.
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Feb 9, 2017 03:05
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T.B.K. Pommedeterre posted:Nous sommes forts grâce à pat benatar
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Feb 9, 2017 03:25
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thatbastardken posted:grâce à pat benatar ...    Well done
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Feb 9, 2017 03:36
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HEY GAIL posted:and the poetry has to be bad. i cannot stress enough how terrible it must be. Why does we hav' ter die France? With all these Froggies in red pants. Jerry seems like a decent chap. With his funny-looking pointy hat. I think I'll go and work for him. And eat some kraut straight from a tin. By Tommy Atkins, age 16
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Feb 9, 2017 04:03
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I remember burning out watching the original game because it was too slow, so I'm totally in favor of the faster pace. I can't wait for the
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Feb 9, 2017 05:04
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There seem to be slightly less germans, so I'll throw in my lot with them.
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Feb 9, 2017 05:04
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Here's to this going further than the last war!
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Feb 9, 2017 07:39
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xthetenth posted:Is good poetry a '16 or '17 unlock?
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Feb 9, 2017 09:00
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I Put 20 in Concrete Poetry At Verdun At Verdun They gave Me The croix de gurre And a wooden Leg And A Wood En Leg
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Feb 9, 2017 09:04
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Ooh, another one of these! Entente if possible, please. Although I'd play Central Powers if there's no room left otherwise. Empress Theonora, the mercenary.
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Feb 9, 2017 10:47
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HEY GAIL posted:it'll be my sad but necessary duty to fight against someone who had been my friend before the war broke out nonono Serben muss sterben meine Freundin
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Feb 9, 2017 11:01
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Empress Theonora posted:Ooh, another one of these! Entente if possible, please. Although I'd play Central Powers if there's no room left otherwise. Empress Theonora, the mercenary. 
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Feb 9, 2017 12:27
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Nice to see this being tried again, but fixing the mistakes I made last time (the river, map extensions). I don't have time to play, but I'll be watching with interest. Since the last time we did this, I finally have played a game in real life - and wrote up a battle report - it may be of interest to people.
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The French have received their orders; when the Germans get theirs there will be a countdown, signups will close, and players will be barred from this thread. We're filling up fast; there may be one or two commands left, but feel free to go sign up as a staff officer and you may get to play as a replacement or a reinforcement. edited for the all-time greatest Great War poem, which appeared in the Wipers Times in 1916 The world wasn't made in a day, And Eve didn't ride on a bus, But most of the world's in a sandbag The rest of it's plastered on us. (It was.) Trin Tragula fucked around with this message at 16:45 on Feb 9, 2017 |
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Feb 9, 2017 13:39
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Can I sign up for the reserves of the Entente? I'm going to be out of the country at the end of the month. Please don't shell France while I'm there.
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thatbastardken posted:grâce à pat benatar 
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Trin, how are you handling the bookkeeping? Do you have a physical board set up?
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aphid_licker posted:Trin, how are you handling the bookkeeping? Do you have a physical board set up? Someone calculated that the map in the last game covered something ludicrous like 400 physical tables' worth of space, so no. #squadgoals What I've actually got is a Photoshop map which is entirely built of layers, so I can switch everything on and off at my convenience, and then a company-by-company spreadsheet for tracking what everyone's up to and making sure I don't miss people's orders. Plus the house rules document, the chits, the measuring sticks, the signups tracker... (I am going to be rolling actual dice for at least initiative, if nothing else; although when combat starts I'll be on Roll20 because if I wanted to throw 12d6 every 30 seconds I'd be playing Shadowrun...)
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