Prince of Wales Royal American Thursday Showdown. CANCELLED.

[James Grant]

The 60th Royal American regiment of foot and the 82nd Prince of Wales Volunteers Regiment of Foot are proud to announce a
new Thursday linebattle event. This event shall occur at 7pm GMT every Thursday, with the 1st Thursday of every month being based on
a historical battle. We hope in this event to provide a good gaming atmosphere on a very good server with only respectable, well natured regiments in attendance.

First event is Thursday the fourteenth of February.

Basic Rules.

-Firing in a charge is allowed.
-Any regiment excepting artillery must join another line when down to 3 men or less.
-Don't officer aim if you can avoid it. It is frowned upon for skirmishers and light infantry
to do so but not forbidden. (It's historical, it happened. There is a chain of command for a reason.)
-Generals. These will be allowed but only if you tell me in advance and they must be (obviously) in charge of more than a single regiment or company. They may not have any staff officers and once their regiments are out of action they must dismount and join a line. If you do not tell me in advance I will just keep slaying them every time I see them regardless of pestering during the event.

Line infantry and Foot Guards. Minimum 10. No maximum but cannot deploy in a line larger than 30,More than that must deploy in 2 separate lines. No firing out of formation. If less than 4 men must join another line if possible. No crouching whilst firing unless in a double rank. Half man spacing is allowed. Cavalry & Dragoons. Minimum 6,maximum 15. Dragoons must be stationary when firing and in some semblance of a line. May dismount and fight in skirmish tactics. Must dismount and join a line once below 3 people, may ride to an ally before dismounting. Light Infantry & Skirmishers. Minimum of 6,Maximum of 16. When below 4 men must join an allied line. Light Infantry (51st,grenzers) may use 3 man spacing. Light infantry may not use cover. Riflemen (95th,Jaegers) may spread out but keep it reasonable, may crouch. Riflemen may use cover. 1 Sapper allowed. Artillery. Maximum 3 men per one artillery piece plus two artillery guards. Cannons and Howitzers both allowed. One sapper per battery. Signing up. This is primarily a private event for regiments that we can trust to aid us in making a good linebattle, however it is possible that on occasion we will need someone to fill some spaces, in which case I will post here stating what is needed and how to contact me.

Last of all, make sure your in the following teamspeak for 6:45 each Thursday to confirm numbers and make sure we can fit everyone in.
Teamspeak Meeting - 6:45 PM -  176.9.103.48:1995

This GIF serves no practical purpose but you must admit, Wellington is a happy chappy

[William Trumper-Jones]

Thread is excellent. Looking forward to it! Huzzah!

[Cara]

 Great ! 

[deSaul]

This thread is fantastic stuff.

[Menelaos]

The 60th now manages 4 linebattles a week, this is great. Hopefully I can attend one day if my schedule permits.

[James Grant]

I've already gotten some rather excellent regiments involved so this should be rather spiffing eh?

[Shortshorts]

Oi arsewipe, I suggest removing firing in a charge, we get enough of that on Mondays, and I'd like this to at least sort of resemble the Monday historical from the days of yore.
Perhaps even nicking some commonly American rules like using double lines, would be a change of pace. Worth a try maybe, see what your current invites have to say.

[Connzcdf]

Keep firing on charge, maybe implement double lines. Good luck. Hopefully the HAC will be able to attend one day.

[Cenkris]

Oi arsewipe, I suggest removing firing in a charge, we get enough of that on Mondays, and I'd like this to at least sort of resemble the Monday historical from the days of yore.
Perhaps even nicking some commonly American rules like using double lines, would be a change of pace. Worth a try maybe, see what your current invites have to say.

If you want to resemble the Monday Historical you need ridiculously huge maps so that all regiments spend more time walking than actually fighting!

[Shortshorts]

What can I say, I like it when manouvering is an option rather then a surefire way to get destroyed, which usually is the case on the smaller maps that are very hard to balance,
this usually results in both sides waiting for the other to do something really daft, which just replaces the walking with sitting around rolling your thumbs.

[William Trumper-Jones]

Firing in a charge is wonderful. I demand it stays!

[Jooker]

Wonderful thread Jezza! I'm reallly looking forward to fighting with/against the 82nd 

[James Grant]

I suppose from a historical viewpoint firing in the charge should be a no. At the Battle of Assaye the 74th at one point fired a volley then quick marched to a short distance from the enemy then fired, in line.

And from a gameplay perspective it can lead to the line becoming fractured in the charge as some shoot quickly and others take their time.

[Shortshorts]

I must probably add that if we are going to restrict lines like this, we must also clearly define what is reasonable and what isn't for skirmishers to do.
For example the good old spreading out hundreds of meters when being chased but still shooting should be completely disallowed, not to get overly Tavy on you, but a clear definition for what is, and what isn't shooting in formation for skirmisher units must be found.

[James Grant]

Personally I think the whole point of skirmishers is the freedom aspect, though I agree there are blurry areas.