February 21st 2009 American Civil War Game

[Admin]

There will be an American Civil War Game on Saturday 21st February 2009.

It will be held at a new venue, Mark Jarvis' home in which is near Hinton a village lying halfway between M1 (Northampton) and M40 (Banbury).

This topic is available for managing the game, please post here if you are interested.

More details will follow.

[MJ1]

For those interested and to allow you to try and work out travel arrangements here is the rough location: -

http://www.streetmap.co.uk/idmap.srf?x=451500&y=253500&z=130&sv=451500,253500&st=4&ar=Y&mapp=idmap.srf&searchp=ids.srf&ax=451500&ay=253500&lm=0

Byfield is on the A361 and the house is roghly 15 mins drive from the Banbury M40 junction or 15 mins from Towcester (if you travel up the A5) or around 15 mins from the Northampton M1 Junction 16.

It usually takes me using the A5 to get to Hemel around 1.15 mins.

To encourage use of the forum I am looking for two CiC's who will play Jackson and Banks in a pre game PBEM.

You must have time to respond to me and return turns quickly as we do not have much time to the day.

You will also have to have a decent PC to view the maps as the files are rather large and you will be using your PC to view the ground.

The maps are real ones used in the period and created by Hotchkiss when he worked for Jackson in the Valley Campaign. The ground being fought over is between Strasburg and Harrisonburg.

I want to create a back ground to the game based upon your actions which I can then use for the actual game day.

The first 2 people to respond to this thread get this role if they want it. Let me know your preference.

I think we are looking at a maximum of 3 (maybe 4 at a push) players a side with one of those being the CiC.

Please let me know your interest ASAP.

Regards

MJ

[Martin]

Have a slight preference for playing as a subordinate, but happy to be a reserve for you on this if you are short of a volunteer, Mark.

Regards

Martin

[MJ1]

Thanks Martin I have edited (or will do shortly) the topic above to show who we think will be turning up. Between us we should be able to keep track of who is doing what...

Two of the names above are Andy and Jerry who are from the Warwickshire Gamers group I attend on Monday nights and have expressed an interest in playing.

[MJ1]

Drat!! I assumed like other forums I use I could edit my previous posts to correct them etc... but does not appear to be the case here...

Anyway the list of players: -

Martin
Andy
Jerry
David
James

List of Refs: -
Moi
David


Eithers: -
John ACS
Steve

[henridecat]

Course you can edit posts. The edit tab is just right of the title.
I've improved the icons, they were too well camouflaged!

PS I will be attending the game, happy to umpire.

Correction, whoops I forgot to check, I have a football match to see on this date so unfortunately I can't make it, but it looks like there will be plenty of people so I don't feel that guilty.

[MJ1]

Ahh I thought I was going mad but I can see it now...

Thanks for making them more visible...

[Martin]

I will almost certainly be bringing my youngest boy, David, whom you know. A friend of his (James) also seems keen to give k/spiel a go. Hope that's ok.

Martin

[MJ1]

Yes very much OK..

I have added them above...

[Martin]

Great. Do you need any more? We can always re-circulate game details.

Martin

[MJ1]

I think we are pretty much there.

Not a problem if more want to come but I reckon it will be as refs by the look of it.

Also I will wait a bit longer to see if anyone wants to do the pre game stuff. I know the two from Warwick would do it but I have told them to sign up here and say so to try and encourage use of this site.

But if say by next week no one has expressed an interest I will crack on with it with Andy and Jerry. (Actually Jere but he uses Jerry as people can't say the Finish very well...)

Anyway looking good and I hope it works out well... I presume David and his friend James wanted to play?

[Martin]

Yes I think they'd prefer to. If it would help, they would probably be happy playing as a team.

Martin

[gunboat diplomat]

MJ

Sorry for the late response, room for one more?? happy to ref as it will give some good experience for my March game.

Cheers

Steve Hockin

For those interested and to allow you to try and work out travel arrangements here is the rough location: -

http://www.streetmap.co.uk/idmap.srf?x=451500&y=253500&z=130&sv=451500,253500&st=4&ar=Y&mapp=idmap.srf&searchp=ids.srf&ax=451500&ay=253500&lm=0

Byfield is on the A361 and the house is roghly 15 mins drive from the Banbury M40 junction or 15 mins from Towcester (if you travel up the A5) or around 15 mins from the Northampton M1 Junction 16.

It usually takes me using the A5 to get to Hemel around 1.15 mins.

To encourage use of the forum I am looking for two CiC's who will play Jackson and Banks in a pre game PBEM.

You must have time to respond to me and return turns quickly as we do not have much time to the day.

You will also have to have a decent PC to view the maps as the files are rather large and you will be using your PC to view the ground.

The maps are real ones used in the period and created by Hotchkiss when he worked for Jackson in the Valley Campaign. The ground being fought over is between Strasburg and Harrisonburg.

I want to create a back ground to the game based upon your actions which I can then use for the actual game day.

The first 2 people to respond to this thread get this role if they want it. Let me know your preference.

I think we are looking at a maximum of 3 (maybe 4 at a push) players a side with one of those being the CiC.

Please let me know your interest ASAP.

Regards

MJ

[MJ1]

Correction, whoops I forgot to check, I have a football match to see on this date so unfortunately I can't make it, but it looks like there will be plenty of people so I don't feel that guilty.

OK NP and I have updated the list appropriately.

Thanks for letting me know...

[MJ1]

MJ

Sorry for the late response, room for one more?? happy to ref as it will give some good experience for my March game.

Cheers

Steve Hockin

Hi I have updated the list and yes would be good to see you.

Cheers

MJ