""Circa 1700" Board?" Topic

The GNW board poll isn't going so well:

TMP link

So,how about an "era" board,that would cover GNW,WSS,LOA, and the other conflicts of the transition from pike to shot?

Just keep cutting up the 18th Century Boards.

Can't you just play nice with everyone else and be happy.

If the membership is increasing and those eras are being increasingly discussed, perhaps a seperate board is OK.

Perhaps a 'Wars of Louis XIV' board is what you are looking for?

Not sure how much he had to do with the GNW,though. And he was dead before it was over. But yeah,maybe--"The Era of Louis XIV"?

Why?

Same as other boards--so people interested in the era can find the stuff they're looking for more easily.

Might as well ask why we have separate SYW,FIW,and AWI boards. Why not just get rid of them and dump everything in one 18th century board?

You'll still be able to find what you want in there somewhere. Eventually.

I'd much rather see a board focused on a period – like the 1680 to 1720, more or less, concept here than a board for a single set of rules. Very few sets of rules survive for long in this sometimes whacky hobby but a historical events go on forever, well, sort of. So, I say go forward.

My only caveats would be if it further 'breaks' TMP then no and, well, no, can't say it because he's something of a sacred cow around here…no offense to brahmin cattle, of course.

You lost me with that second paragraph,but then,it's pretty late where I am. . .

Once you start chopping up all the boards into their own little niches, then everyone else misses out on what that period has to offer. I find since there has been an American Revolution board I always go straight to that board.

I tend not to go to the SYW or any other 18th Cent. board. Which is too bad because I am probably missing out on some interesting discussions. I could become interested in beginning a SYW project. But people being people, are most likely never going to check out a board they know little about and is not on their radar.

If you check on some of the small niche periods which have their own board, about the only thing you hear are crickets.You also miss out on what some other folks have to say. These are some very knowledgeable people about 18th Cent. warfare. I think you will miss their input.

How hard is it to find what you are interested in on the 18th Cent boards? Just look at the title of the post. How hard is that? But if you insist on exiling yourself to wargame oblivion then go ahead. We will miss you.

That's why you have cross posting.

If you make a l
Post regarding anything 18th century post it in the general 18th century board as well as what ever specific period you are doing ( 7YW, AWI ect.)

i have my bookmark set for the front page. I skim messages for any titles that look interesting and read the posts, so quite keen to have a "1680 to 1720 board". It is one of my favourite eras and I have armies for Nine Years War, War in Ireland and WSS. My wargaming pals add GNW and Russo- Ottoman figures and we play the period a lot. As a lot of information on uniforms, flags, details of battles etc is difficult to find, it would be really good to have a dedicated board so that those with a bit more knowledge coukd help out others who are newcomers to the period. After all, we have lots of separate 19th century boards, including "Napoleonics" and one for that little local squabble in the former colonies!

good lord. How can we possibly balkanize things even more? AWI, FIW and SYW are already bad enough. There is hardly any traffic on them and 18th century as it is. LESS boards, not more.

Agreed. There are too many boards already, many without sufficient traffic to justify them. Boards for a particular set of rules tend to be the most underused.

Cross-posting is lovely, but the list of boards to cross-post to is so long it's easy to miss one or more topics which might apply, and a poster with weak TMP fu or just apathetic simply won't cross-post appropriately. There are plenty of topics I miss because someone posted them in a board I never look at and didn't cross-post to someplace appropriate that I do.

- Ix

I have always puzzled over how we have these discussions of having boards for short periods of time and specific wars while at the same time we have an Ancients board that covers some 3,000 years.

I would go for this as stuff can be the on Renaissance Board if it's late 17th or 18th cent if it's Marlburian etc
It is nice to know everything pertaining to that late pike and shot period is in one place.

It wouldn't be TMP without constant discussions about new boards for this or that.

I have always puzzled over how we have these discussions of having boards for short periods of time and specific wars while at the same time we have an Ancients board that covers some 3,000 years.

That's because people hitting each other with pointed metal shards is generic. Also not a 1000 primary sources for each damn day of each damn week of each damn month of each damn year. So a lot less reason to argue.

I wouldn't deny that there was any development,but yeah, especially regarding source material. Though we do have separation into Ancients and Medieval.

John,I made a similar comment to a friend, comparing "Ancients" as a period,to say,the cutting up of the 20th century. He pointed out that in 50 years,we went from single-shot rifles to atomic bombs.

Difficult to find anything comparable during the ancient period. That's "progress",of a sort.

+1 Gunfreak : )

I think Gunfreak has it. One board for head hitting and a second one for shooting. That about covers it.

I would have been happy with boards like;

Biblical
Ancient Greece and Rome
Oriental warfare
Dark age and Medieval
Horse and musket
Colonial and other 19th century wars
WW1 and the interwar years
WW2
Modern conflicts

And perhaps one for Naval gaming

I would not even have separate boards for Painting guides, special rule sets and the like.

Yeh, I am a rebel!

In a hundred years,WWI and WWII will be seen as one war,with a short truce in the middle.

@ Hafen, could argue that 1860 to 1945 was one- the Rise and Fall of German Imperialism.

No no,impossible,at least here on TMP,which has declared a clear division between the centuries--though those pesky Boers and Boxers keep sneaking across.

In fact, I say we build a wall, and make the 19th Century pay for it!