Gentlemen,
Your troublesome Army Cmdr has come up with a concept... nothing original for sure... to establish the <font color="orange">AotM Intelligence Center</font id="orange"> as a site that collects information on Union Officers and specific scenarios for the benefit of the Army.
Here's the link to the new AotM Intelligence Center. It will require you to use your acwgc.org Username & Password to log in... same as old AotM Forum... and the same as you used at the VMI Mess Hall. There's also a link on the AotM web page.
http://www.acwgc.org/acwgc_admin/phpbb/viewforum.php?f=41
You'll also be asked to enter a password for the Intel Center. You can get this password from your Division or Corps Cmdr.
I've setup the forum so that each Corps has their own Corps Forum... then there's also a Forum for Union Officer Intel... and then individual Forum's for each HPS & TS Game. This way we can enter the Union Officer Intel Forum... then select the topic for that particular Officer and see what has been said about him. If the Officer your looking for isn't listed... you can start a topic for him and begin your commentary on them.
I asked our Division & Corps Cmdrs to assist me in getting some posts started in the Union Officer Intel section and we've already got profiles for Pat Thompson, Al Amos, Jim Wilkes, David Groce, Kevin Killeen, Jerry Butley, Mike Seger, Matt Perrenod, Rusty Hodgkiss, Ed Blackburn, Ernie Sands, Ken Miller, Drex Ringbloom, Lutz Schmidt, David Elkin and John Corbin. And we are only getting started.
The same goes for the scenarios. A sample topic title could be... "Wheatfield to Roundtop 6c by Ned Simms" in the HPS Gettysburg section.
What I'm planning on doing myself is writing up an AAR (After Action Review) for each battle after I've completed it and posting it to the AotM Intelligence Center. I'd like to encourage you to do the same thing. I'm planning on awarding additional Conduct Points to our Officers who are contributing good material at the end of each month.
Anyway, those are my thoughts. I'm open to suggestions but I think this could end up being a very good tool for all of us. I know throughout the KotH Tournament... Officer's were always asking me what some balanced scenarios were. If we would all post our thoughts on the scenarios that we played in the course of the Tournament... we would have a wealth of information available already.
I look forward to reading your posts.
General Roger Hulinsky
Cmdg, AotM
Confederate States of America
PS - If you've never registered for the acwgc.org forums... the instructions are listed below. I do know the Registration Email isn't being sent out by the server properly. So if you complete the registration form and don't get a confirmation email... email me the Username you've selected and I will manually go into the system and confirm your registration for you. If you've forgotten your password... let me know what your Username is and what you'd like your temporary password to be and I'll reset it for you.
<i>How to Register for ACWGC.ORG Forums.
Here's the step by step process to walk you through the registration process.
Go to:
http://www.acwgc.org/acwgc_admin/phpbb/viewforum.php?f=26
In the top right corner, click on "Login".
On the next page... click on "Register"
On the next page... click on "Before 15 May 1996"
On the next page... click on "I agree to these terms"
On the next page... enter the Username you want to use
enter your email address twice
enter password twice
enter language
enter your time zone
enter confirmation code
click on "Submit"
Then an email will be sent to the email address you entered above. Click on the activation link in the email and you'll be registered. Then you just use your Username and Password to Login in and you can post to these pages.</i>