Well obviously I was a little worried being a Lt. Colonel when I took over the ANV last year, but I agree with the points here, but mostly with General Malone, communication drives the horse!!
I see it in all my clubs, in all my armies etc. Communication lets people know you are there and they are not alone. All my great lapses in communication personally have caused strains on each of my respective forces in the past, as when others do it, it does. Communication got me into my spot in the Prussian Armee, it got me into things at the ANV level and is a cornerstone of my pratices as Army CO in the 1NWCG, Senior XO at the NWC, and in the past as ANV and now III Corps CO. I tell you guys it makes a world of a difference and will drive people to get involved.
Thanks Tony Best for mentioning our splinter club, the 1NWCG, we never try to compete with the NWC, we try to supplement and cross-work with it, and it does just well. Again communication in that case also sheds light on many things, right Dierk. [;)] But we do roleplay a lot there and we have some wiley eyed people with us in it. Which reminds me, I need to ride the French Armees back at the NWC for something. [:D][:p][}:)] Phil Roubaud and Gary McClellan can recount our many times that we got all fired up about the Prussia versus Austria deal there, and my propoganda mill, as most of the club can tell you.
But I always try to add a roleplay aspect, how many folks get or have gotten in the past my certificates, official e-amils, etc that I issue in my various commands, I always like doing those and feel it adds an aspect authenticity. It's the little stuff I notice that goes a long way, but it all happens with communication. [:D]
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<b>Brigadier General Scott Ludwig</b>
Commanding Officer, III Corps
Army of Northern Virginia
"The Army Commissary"
Retried ANV Commander 2004-06
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I am loath to close. We are not enemies, but friends. We must not be enemies. Though passion may have strained it must not break our bonds of affection. The mystic chords of memory, stretching from every battlefield and patriot grave to every living heart and hearthstone all over this broad land, will yet swell the chorus of the Union, when again touched, as surely they will be, by the better angels of our nature.
-Abraham Lincoln, 1st Inaugural Address
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