Interactive Battle: Battle of Gettysburg

[Lord Winter]

Wellcome Ichi! 3rd Corps is yours.

Now that we have all the players.I would like to hear your opinions about something certain we could try in this game. My suggestion is that we would limit the pm exchance between the rest of you and GH playing Lee to a on single pm per turn coming from Corps commander giving situation report of his Corps and suggested plan of action and a second pm, being orders coming back from Lee?This would a) make the game faster as you cant have long talks about the strategy and B) It would give more realistic view of battlefield communications. A notable difference to this would be the night time when fighting would lul. Then you could talk as much about grand strategy in the thread as much as you like.This pm exchange should be forwarded to me, while i would send each Corps commander reports from their division commanders before they inform GH.

Second issue, as we have players from different continents. I would like to hear your opinions how much time would you need for a turn. Or we could just drop the deadline and each time after all the orders are out.I would reserve some time to make a new situation map.How does that sound?

The PM idea sounds good. As for timing from a player perspective I think once every two days would be enough time from a player perspective. I'm not sure what you would need as a host.

[Kagemusha]

As it seems everyone has shared their views.We are ready to start. The battle will start with only messages arriving to the players from the front as not any of you have reached Gettysburg yet. Before your character reaches the battlefield. All straight pm communications are prohibited. If you want to send messages to other commanders, send those to me and i will forward those messages when i think enough time has passed for an messenger to reach their destination.Game has started. It is now 8am.July 1st.1863.

[Franconicus]

How is the battle going?

[Kagemusha]

Its in its starting phase. The Confederate army is approaching Gettysburg and the players have received some information from the vanguard units.I have had to pause it, because im working on something for the Org in general,which is taking lot of my time.

[King Kurt]

I hope they are looking for shoes!!!

kage - great idea - hope it goes well - I will be watching to see what happens avidly - I love the ACW and Gettysberg is a real favourite. You playing the Union should work well as they were basically defending, so it was the Rebels who are doing the maneuvering