"New Board: Flames of War" Topic

Since enough people volunteered to support a new board, the Flames of War board has been created.

You now have one year to show that this board merits its creation, by sustaining enough topics (10 topics per month is the guideline).

In general, posts to the Flames of War board SHOULD NOT be crossposted to the WWII Rules or WWII Discussion boards. This board is now the place for discussing Flames of War.

If you are not interested in Flames of War, remember that you can go to the WWII boards list and mark that you don't want to see topics from that board on your homepage.

I'm interested in Flames of War. But in protest over a completely unnecessary board, I will not view it or contribute to it. Nor will I contribute to any thread that crossposts to it.

Remember how many threads are orphaned because we couldn't have a 15mm WWII models review board any more? Right.

Wild mood swings on TMP. Great.

Going to deselect that abhominable thing now.

Allen

I agree with Allen. This is totally unneccessary, and I LIKE the game. Are you now going to give every mook who whines for a Board for his favorite game his wish?

16% wanted it? Good Grief.
Please explain to me the purpose of Polls…

10 topics per month sustains a Board? Is that a promise? IS this a new guideline for dumping unused and less frequented Boards?

And what happens if we continue to post FoW topics in the WWII Rules & Discussion boards?

10 topics per month sustains a Board? Is that a promise? IS this a new guideline for dumping unused and less frequented Boards?

Don't you read the editorials? It's the experimental new policy.

And here is metaphor for stifling on the new Flames of War Board:
YouTube link

And what happens if we continue to post FoW topics in the WWII Rules & Discussion boards?

They'll get uncrossposted.

What editorials? Where?

See "FAQ Updated" under May 2010: TMP link

Cool!

More boards. Lovely.

Is there any way to tell if a topic on the Flames of War board is showing up on other boards which I have not removed from my lists of interests without opening the topic to look at the left column? I agree that we dont need more boards.

Is Bill perhaps trying to sell advertising space to Battlefront?

I can see no other reason for this new board.

If it helps Bill get money to run TMP, which I suppose BF could help with, then I'm all for it.

But generally I disapprove of splitting up the discussion more, and don't think that one board per rules system is a way forward.

Pointless.FOW discussion should be where it belongs on the WW2 rules board (and I don't even play/own a copy).I have to be honest, this place is starting to get a bit silly.

Starting?

touche Plynkes.

Perhaps we could just discuss rules with logarithmic groundscales on the WW2 board (there are other ones as well as FOW).

That's complete and utter crap!

I will create 10 topics a week to keep this board alive and contained

We need a new moniker to discuss "that game that cannot be named" on the WWII boards. We can refer to it as "Feelings of War" and abreviate it as FoW. Which of course would bear no legal relation, intended or otherwise to "that game that cannot be named" on the WWII boards any longer.

Yeah, gotta say I agree. I see no reason why this board was created with so a low percentage of votes.

At least it's another place where people can whine about something.

"At least it's another place where people can whine about something."

Indeed. That is good for our post counts.

So, what happens if we are having one of our usual friendly and well informed discussions on the WW2 board about say, WW2 armoured tactics. Halfway through the thread someone chips with an observation that FOW is the best/worst set of rules at modelling these.

Does the whole thread get shunted off to the FOW board?

I see that about 40 or so topics/threads with Flames of War in the titles have been transferred to the FoW Board.

A few questions…

1) Does that affect any links in other threads?

2) What will happen to these threads/topics if the FoW Board does not receive the necessary 10 posts per month, and the Board gets nuked? Will they vanish into the aether too, like all those WW2 15mm Figure threads did?

3) "What is BKC?" is posted to the Flames of War Board. I hope The Editor is happy about the work he has set up for himself policing the new Board. Obviously, he does not have enough to do.

Hey, this thread:

TMP link

is about Rapid Fire vs FOW, what is it doing on the FOW board?

"What will happen to these threads/topics if the FoW Board does not receive the necessary 10 posts per month, and the Board gets nuked? Will they vanish into the aether too, like all those WW2 15mm Figure threads did?"

And more important, when the threads get nuked, what happens to our post count?

Alright, I've had my fun and I'll stop it now.

Best of luck on the new FOW board.

Screw the post count. I am waxing Roth. He is not at all happy being out there either.

What's Van Halen got to do with it?

Poppycock.

This will likely be my only post on this board. (Excepting of course topics which get strangely moved after I've posted elsewhere)

It would be nice if redundant boards were removed or consolidated with the same zeal and speed as the addition of new boards.

Redundant boards have a tail of old messages – if everybody is going to wail and gnash their teeth over losts or orphaned posts from eliminated boards, is it any wonder Bill's faster putting up new boards with no tail versus taking old ones down and getting bombarded by complaints about lost posts?

Cpt Arexu, that would be a point completely without merit if TMP was run like a database.
--
Tim

But why should it be run like a database?

I don't play FOW, but if there is enough 'action' in there, then good for them.
In reality, anything FOW related will not affect my gaming, so let them do their talk in a place where I won't see it.

Having recently given up my struggle with FOW and turned to the dark side I actually wouldn't mind a FOW board, even though it is a redundant. That being said, the FOW board does no good if it is being boycotted by some of the more knowledgeable members (I'm looking at you Allen), and since FOW topics will be moved from the WWII Rules board, that effectively will completely exclude those members from the discussion. Seems kind of counter-productive….

I'd prefer an optional feature where posters we've stifled have their entire threads stifled on our front page, and not just their individual posts. Now that's progress.

Why FoW should be dissociated from the WWII boards is puzzling, particularly with that low a level of support.

I have a question. There are a few threads concerning FoW in the "WWII Rules Message Board" still such as,

Flames of War Finnish Panzerfausts
TMP link
and,

"New Flames Of War yahoo group."
TMP link

for examples. Now, would they be moved to this new Board or would they stay there or could threads like them be crossposted or do they just belong here? Robert

Best board ever!

So what's FOW anyway?