tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-97754405909576170.post4972401535360428799..comments2024-03-24T19:50:13.945+01:00Comments on napoleonic wargaming: Final battle of Halle PBEM campaignthistlebarrowhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00077298970769942656noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-97754405909576170.post-80289429825153550542010-02-14T11:54:35.264+01:002010-02-14T11:54:35.264+01:00Hi Tony
Thanks for your comments. It is a shame...Hi Tony<br /><br />Thanks for your comments. It is a shame that the PBEM campaign came to an untimely end. I suspect that this result is quite common.<br /><br />I enjoyed running the campaign, and will miss the outside imput when I return to my solo 1813 campaign.<br /><br />I agree that the weak point of a PBEM, or indeed a mail campaign, is how to fight the battles. I don't think there is a good answer to this. Its difficult enough to get players to send movement orders once a week, imagine how difficult it would be to get them to resolve their own battles by fighting a wargame!!<br /><br />I am glad that you have enjoyed following the PBEM campaign, and hope you will continue to follow the 1813 solo campaign when I get the next stage up and running.<br /><br />regards<br /><br />Paulthistlebarrowhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00077298970769942656noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-97754405909576170.post-59344572114922791782010-02-14T11:09:46.540+01:002010-02-14T11:09:46.540+01:00Paul - I've been an interested follower of you...Paul - I've been an interested follower of your blogs for a little while now - I've particular enjoyed the reports and pictures of your visits to battlefields (and I'd like to offer my thanks and appreciation for all your hard work on that), I agree with many of your less 'fashionable' thoughts on tabletop gaming, and recently I've been keeping an eye on your PBEM campaign. <br /><br />My interest in the PBEM was not least because my experience of running wargames campaigns led me to wonder how on earth such a campaign could be kept going. Most of my experience in this area was a good many years ago, and it was postal, but the participants lived near enough to attend the actual battles when they arose. The various campaigns went pretty well, but I was eventually exhausted by the the umpiring and the admin effort, and put that part of my activities on indefinite hold when my wife came up with something rather more urgent to spend my time on!<br /><br />I currently wargame solo (mostly), and my solitary campaigns, such as they are, exist to give some kind of sensible framework for the battles. I was tempted to get in touch to see if there might be some way I could be involved in your PBEM game. However - I thought better of it. In principle, I can find the energy to gawp at someone else's campaign blog on a regular basis, but to commit myself to providing essential input to a campaign, when I myself would only get to hear about the battles (which is the main point, after all) at second hand, seemed a bit of a long shot. I couldn't see where the motivation would come from to keep it going.<br /><br />Which makes me, obviously, a bad candidate for such a game! I'm sorry your PBEM efforts seem to have stalled, particularly since you have obviously put a lot of work into it, and I'm disappointed that I won't be able to follow it, but I can't say I'm greatly surprised.<br /><br />I have no idea how it would be possible to motivate everybody to keep it going. Not even Napoleon himself could manage that, I suspect.<br /><br />My condolences, but I hope to continue to enjoy your other output.<br /><br />Best regards<br /><br />TonyMSFoyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14470241067504971068noreply@blogger.com