I do see Boyd's point, however, the games will be scored in the same manner as the current games and this keeps the scoring on an equal footing to the current games. As for the forum threads, discussions about the ACW in general and the games specifically will continue as we have now. I doubt that the new games are going to dominate our boards. At first, there might be some discussion generated, but that should die down.
I can give some limited insight to the lessons from the CCC when we expanded the games covered to included Birth of America. There have been some threads about BOA, but the overwhelming majority of the discussions are about the Tiller games and the American Revolution, in general. For these MATRIX games, we, in the CCC (and will be the case in the ACWGC) do not have members that are part of the Matrix teams, as we do with HPS, like Rich Hamilton. In the ACWGC, the scenario designers like Rich Walker are always around to offer insights to the scenarios and games, as Rich is for the technical help we need. With the new games, most questions about the functions of the new games will have to be directed on MATRIX forums, not in the ACWGC forums.
Since we (in the CCC) allowed the new non-Tiller games into the club, there have been 40 BOA games registered and played out of a total games of over 250. There were only 9 individual players from the club involved with those games. And that is in almost one years experience with non-Tiller games. (Please keep in mind that the CCC has a much smaller membership than the ACWGC.)
As for CCC forum discussions about the games, there have been very few threads concerning the BOA game and not hardly enough to disrupt the club.
In fact, the addition was smooth and caused hardly a ripple in the scheme of things.
<b><font color="gold">Ernie Sands
General, Commanding, Army of Ohio
ACWGC Cabinet Member
ACWGC Records Site Administrator
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