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Good morning chaps... Just got back and my machine is slowly eating 37 e-mails of AAR's. Once downloaded I shall start processing them and sending out confirmations. JK I will look out for your files and confirm they include JPEGS if they have them. Londoner Yes the Deadline is Monday 21st but if you and any other player can send them to me by the end of today that would be better so we can get the final scores sorted ASAP and the finals underway. More when I have gone through these e-mails and updated the files. It looks like a pretty good completion rate in the games and I shall now slink over to the scenario link to see how people liked the scenarios. H

Good morning chaps... Just got back and my machine is slowly eating 37 e-mails of AAR's. Once downloaded I shall start processing them and sending out confirmations. JK I will look out for your files and confirm they include JPEGS if they have them. Londoner Yes the Deadline is Monday 21st but if you and any other player can send them to me by the end of today that would be better so we can get the final scores sorted ASAP and the finals underway. More when I have gone through these e-mails and updated the files. It looks like a pretty good completion rate in the games and I shall now slink over to the scenario link to see how people liked the scenarios. H

Sorry about lack of time... As for the idea of a mini campaign that would be a good idea. I bought at a wargame fair some booklets which have scenario design ideas for minatures. I was going to see how they translated for the CM games. More on that when I work out how to make copies of myself... H

Hi, An Update on the AAR Deadline. The Deadline is as it was the 21st June. If you can do them before then on the 19th June that will be a big help. I will be away for a week in France in about 4 hours time. My mail box is fairly large but in the unlikely event that it fills and you get a bounce message please send them to KF or Spanish Bombs who will hold them until I empty the Mail box. Only send them to KF or Spanish Bombs if it is full and you can always send a quick small e-mail before hand to test it. I have had a few more AAR's this morning but will not update the list above until Saturday. Please remember to put on your AAR's all the required header info. If in doubt please re-read page one and the guidelines there. Cheers H

Hmmm Just did some checking and by my reckoning I have heard from around 34 players who have handed in an AAR. That is not even 50% of the players in the tourney. I really do hope that my mail box can cope this week. That is if people are going to do them? Please endeavour to keep your AAR's within the agreed limits. Cheers H

Hi, I have just got upto date with all those AAR's sat in my inbox. The Following players have completed all AAR's VADR Mick Oz J Bertles Dangerous Dave Owl Strider Slawreg Jaws Sgt Kelly Steve McClaire Panther Commander RedWolf DeathDealer Melnibone Pace Stick The Following have 1 left to do: - Brent Pollack The_Capt Larsen CunzNG14 Victor Charlie Nidan The Following have 3 left to do: - GreenasJade Levitacus CombinedArms Enoch Overkill Walpurgis Night Von Lucke The Following have 4 left to do: - Nolloff SlicerW Cpt T Malakovski John Kettler And if your name is not here you have less than a week to have it appear. The Next update to this list will be made on Saturday 19th June. H

Hi Hans, I will be able to playtest it but not until July. I am really tied for time at the moment and heading off to Normandy soon. If you wanted to send it to me via E-mail I shall then action it as soon as time allows. I sometimes wish I could have multiple copies of me so I could do all the things I want to do... Cheers H

Hi Gents. For personal reasons I would like you all to aim at the 19th June to be the date for your AAR's. There will be an official announcement at some stage today but I have a clear weekend of the 19th and 20th June to sort out all the AAR's and would like you all to try and get your AAR's to me before that weekend. If you can do that we can announce the finalist list fairly quickly. I know the original deadline was the 21st and at the moment that is still the date to which I am working. We will of course still accept AAR's to whatever date is finally set but as a favour to me and all those who will be waiting on you to finish your AAR; can you all try and complete the AAR's by the 19th June. Many thanks and more on this later today. H P.s. I will now update the recent batch of AAR's and give you some feedback as to what I have in so far.

Hi, That is indeed the book and yes I will be folowing some of his tours. Excellent book and I will look forward to playing the 3RTR action as it scans well in the AAR / reports in the book. Cheers H

KF will be along shortly he is having problems with his PC. Ohhh the wonderful world of viruses and Microsoft. I am sure we will sort something out as long as both players agree. Please keep trying to get these games finished by the 14th as every little helps. Cheers H

Hi Hans, I have a small history book (Will tell you name when I get home from work). This details the actions in and around Calais. Myself and two mates are doing a long weekend tour of some of the battle sites in Europe. Both WWII and WWI. We will be spending a day checking out some of the Calais sites. Also we will be based in the Ieper area so if you have anything you want checking out please let me know. I will be taking a Digi Camera and can provide photo's if I am given specifics. As for my design aims I had thought of doing something based upon the last ditch stand in the streets of Calais. In particular the battle over the bridges into the central area of Calais. The other area was the action with the 3RTR and that might be covered by your work. I have had sod all chance to play any games for well over three months now and until the ROW is over I guess I won't get any time until July. I look forward to playing some of your designs. H

Hi Hans, I will be In Calais researching the 1940 battle at the end of June. If I can get you the info I will. Any other requests and I shall see what I can do. H

No reviewers should not be paid. In the ROW competition we were not getting everyone write an AAR (aka Review) and I think we will have lifted this number somewhat by doing the following. 1. No Advancement to finals unless you have submitted AAR's. This means the good / great players will hopefully share some of their success with those who are less successful. 2. Introduce a prize for the best AAR. This is a Years subscription to "After The Battle" a magazine which talks about actions / battles then and now. What this means is that for those scenarios in the tourney we will have a great reviewer base. The tourney apporach for designers might be one they could consider? There always seems to be a good take up and if a group of designers got together running it would be fairly easy. Failing that you have to learn the art of self publicity and if you are a good designer then your scenarios will get reviewed. This area of the BBS is great for posting notices asking for testers and reviewers. H

Hi, I would send them to me as they are done. An incomplete AAR is fine as long as it covers the points we are looking for. We will tell you if it does not make the grade for the points going towards the scores for the finals. Obviously for the AAR prize it would be very unlikely to win in an incomplete format. H

I was not going to name names.... But yes it was you!!!!! You do know even if you send it 7 times I will only mark one of them. Still sat at work, waiting to go home and see what joys have filled my InBox. H

Update on AAR's JK I kept you off the list as I thought you were going to re-send with the picture included in the one text document. You see I can not easily replace documents once they have been sent out to review and only really want to do that if I know it is fairly fixed. In your case it was indicated that you would be re-doing as one document. Can I reinforce to those who have yet to send in I require just one document per AAR and it must be a seperate document / text file rather than on an e-mail. Also I really only need one copy of it. Today I have been bombed by 7 copies of the same AAR. As the AAR was over 3Megs my Mailbox nearly choked on them. I will be away from Sunday in France for a few days and I really don't want to find the mailbox bombed with multiple copies of the same document. Some great AAR's still coming in and it will be a tough decision for the AAR prize. Cheers H

Good luck Willbell I wanted to run a Lan Games mini campaign affair and in the end got a couple of great designers to run it for me. All I had to do was open my house to a group of players who brought there PC's to network. No charge for it and I even provide a cook'd breakfast in the morning and light lunch. Bloody excellent fun and the last get together saw a German and a Swede join us from Europe. Two sides and the Refs provided the Fog Of War and created games on the fly. Lasts from Friday Evening to Sunday afternoon. Only downside is that I can only run one a year to keep it special and keep my wife sane... H

That would be very good if you could do that. That way people can zoom in on scenarios which are getting people talking. Thanks for listening and giving your time & money freely to support this community. Cheers H

Ok, So it is not me missing anything on the new site. The way I used to use the site was to find scenarios that had been rated highly by other players. This way I could use what limited play time I get to choose great scenarios. (Yes the scores might be fixed but by checking out how many people had reviewed it I could see if it was worth a punt.) Is there anyway that I can somehow get a list of the scenarios with the most reviews? I.e. say above 10? That way I could then limit my search for a scenario by just checking those with a certain number of reviews. H P.s. I Realise it is your bat and ball and you choose how it is played all I am trying to do is give a bit of constructive feed back.

Hi, I guess we lost the feature to see the top rated scenarios. That was the one and only thing that I really used on the site and now it is gone (tell me if I am wrong) my use of the site is made a lot harder. I know you have invested a lot of time and effort in the site and I know we had some disscussions about this feature but I really sorry that it has been taken off. Ohhh well.... H

SP-Our Backs to the Volga Cost Free. Check it out. H

Hi, Drop me an e-mail and I can send you a sample from a previous tourney. Also if you just read the guide lines in the tourney rules that is also a good place to start. H P.s. At work so don't expect the example until tonight (UK time).

Right just had some time to file more AAR's. So far the following People have handed in a full set of AAR's. And remember that these are the only ones which will be able to move onto the finals for that lovely wine. VADR Mick Oz J Bertles Dangerous Dave Owl Strider Slawreg Jaws Sgt Kelly Steve McClaire Panther Commander RedWolf The following just have one left to do. Victor Charlie Nidan Larsen CunzNG14 DeathDealer The following have two left to do. The_Capt The following have three left to do. GreenasJade Overkill Walpurgis Night Von Lucke Levitacus Melnibone CombinedArms The following have four to do. Brent Pollack Malakovski Enoch Nolloff SlicerW And if your name does not appear then you know the score, or lack of it as will apply. H P.s. Please send all AAR's as a file, a single file and not as text just on an E-mail. Cheers H

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Ah, but the question is did the other 35 players who played the same scenario and side score better or worse than you? As for whether or not to write an AAR, there was a player in the ROW III regular tourney that missed getting into the finals by a fraction of a point, even though he scored consistently higher than the next guy in line. The reason? You guessed it - AARs. The #2 guy wrote all his, and the bonus points he received was *just* enough to get him in.