"Should all Napoleonic boards be removed?" Topic

Since we now have at lest three people in the DH for their inability ot play well with others in Napoleinic discussion, I think it is time for some Adult Supervision.

I propose that we eliminate all Napoleonic Boards, particularly Napoleonic Discussion. Although the Napoleonic History Board was started to handle high brow discourse and leave the Discussion board for the low lifes and riff raff, it has not worked. History has its share of rancor too.
To keep the Children and horses from being frightened, it is sadly necessary to close down the whole Napoleonic area, much like a nuisance bar is shut down if too many gunfights break out inside or in the parking lot.

As a bonus, this will free up space for more needed boards, like a War of Jenkins Ear Board, and a renewal of Current Affairs.

No. I'm a Napoleonic gamer. Unlike some I don't take it seriously. I don't pretend it makes me A Serious Wargamer either.

There are Napoleonic boards on TMP?

Just rename it the Dawg House….

off with their heads, err, give them a whiff of grapeshot.

No. Where will I go for advice when I finally start painting my Victrix figures?

Besides, with the gang currently incarcerated, Napoleon was just an excuse. If the Nappy boards were gone it would just mean there's be another round of Was-Stalin-Worse-
Than-Hitler?

No, just have lots of ready.

No. Where will I go for advice when I finally start painting my Victrix figures?

I mean seriously…. when it is time, where will I go to find out what color thread was used in the pockets of my Schwamburg-Lippe grenadier's greatcoats?

But then the Napoleonic players will swarm the other boards, and start endless discussions about the proper usage of bricoles by Germans in WWII and so on.

I say, keep the Napoleonic players bickering on their own ghetto.

No

All kidding aside, I have found the Napoleonic boards useful and educational. I'm not much of a Napoleonics kind of guy, but I am learning more more all the time due to those boards. As for the Usual Suspects, so what? I can ignore them if I want to. If I ask something boneheaded and someone calls me out for it, I will get a couple of other people that understand my needs who will happily answer. I have met some great people on the Napoleonics boards, and would hate to see them go away.

I've obviously missed something. Has the 'Napoleon the tyrant' thread gone bad?

Anyway, as with all the other major periods, simply pruning the whole thing down to 'Napoleonic Wargaming' would work fine.

You must be really board to bring up this subject John (no not a mispelling).

I guess I miss all the good stuff.

mjc

I find them very handy for painting guides, unit organization, etc.

"Never have so many gotten so knicker-knotted over something so inconsequential." -- Motto of the Napoleonic boards.

Of course, it could be the motto of boards discussing HMGS-East, Historicon, GW, FOW, WAB, FOG, DBx. . . you mumble it, they'll get in a snit about it.

No-one's missed anything. It's still there

or rather here TMP link

For those who can't find the Dawghouse without a map (though I never seem to have any difficulty ) TMP link

How about the " Blue Bearskin" or " The Blue Busby" ?

I'm not a Napoleonic mini gamer -- I do play Napoleonic board games and read a lot of the lit -- but I did wade into the Napoleonic board last week and immediately drew fire because I'm not in the tank for le petit caporal

No.

Keep them.

I agree with the others like Impala who find most of the boards useful and educational. I find the rest entertaining.

Rick

sounds like the thread title should be "should all napoleanic wargamers be removed?"

Remember "Its not the boards that DH people. Its people that DH people."

Create a seperate board for them like the Plus Board. New members have to opt in. If anyone's offended then they can opt out.

Damn, I didn't realise that visiting the Napoleonics boards was compulsory.

Why doesn't my browser automatically take me there?

John is absolutely correct, and I advocated this a while ago. Making the Dawghouse the new Nappies home would save time for Bill, allow the Nappies people to muck out the inmates and make room for the India / Pakistan war board that we so desperately need. Or the War of Jenkins Ear.
The only alternative is full time adult supervision and all scissors / sharp objects removed.

We should rename them the Games Workshop Napoleonic Boards until they shape up.

To the Blue Cocked Hat!

Never! The Imperial Guard won't ever surrender!

If you don't like it then stop reading it. Problem solved.

Add more board to the Nappies, say 50 or so. They'd either spend their time trying to find their enemies (like one of those Scooby-doo, multiple door, run from the monster scenes) or be too tired from maintaining a fight in each board.

"If you don't like it then stop reading it. Problem solved."

Not really. The OP was about the number of dawghousings the Napoleonic Boards generate, so us mere mortals choosing to read it or not doesn't make any difference. All that matters is whether Bill reads it and finds it contravenes the rules.

I agree.

Let us get back to more important things like complaining about the complaint button every week.

""If you don't like it then stop reading it. Problem solved."

Not really. The OP was about the number of dawghousings the Napoleonic Boards generate, so us mere mortals choosing to read it or not doesn't make any difference. All that matters is whether Bill reads it and finds it contravenes the rules."

The boards themselves do not generate DH'ing, people do that themselves with posts, why remove the boards?

The boards themselves do not generate DH'ing, people do that themselves with posts, why remove the boards?

The same could have been said about the current affairs board, and that was removed. People had a hard time figuring out that they could opt out of the dratted thing. Sort of like being unable to work out opting out of the other boards, so certain ones had to be moved to their own section.

It's a slippery slope Bill started down.

The Naps boards would be easier to negotiate if the members wore their colours on their username line.
E.G.
Omour: madly in love with le Empereur
or Durstein: still fighting for Prussia's freedom
or Lord Fauntley: we've lost the empire but we still have Nosey
etc

The little green man posted by Anodyne Username sums up this thread precisely.

I vote that we remove the WW2 naval board. Just 'cause.

A salvo at your idea Sentient Bean!

TMP has just become too controversial, Bill should probably just ban the whole thing and set up seperate boards for each topic. You would need to write in and ask permission to join each board individually and then you would need to agree to a specific set of rules and agree that you won't get all crying eyes n stuff.

The Blyue Shako ???

Na, the Blue Bricole.

True its a blood-sport! But then war is hell too!

Speaking of Napoleonic threads….if anyone can tell me what this one is even about?????
TMP link

Another I suspect rad

no

No. Let them stand as a lesson to the rest of us.

But then the Napoleonic players will swarm the other boards, and start endless discussions about the proper usage of bricoles by Germans in WWII and so on.

Exactly, they are happy in their own home! There are already some fine examples on TMP of posters who possess no filter between their brains and their finger tips. They deluge the other boards with their diarrhetic ramblings when they have a proper place to vent:

TMP link

Freeing up all the Napoleonics Boards posters would result in an Andromeda Strain-like proliferation!

No if we get rid of that they'll spill out on tho other forums. Keep them on a short leash over there.

A request for 'Adult Supervision' from John the OMF? Now, here's an innovative definition of word 'oxymoron'.