I would hate for us to get ahead of ourselves. Are we sure we want to jump into this with that many threads from the get-go? TGL, do you have the desire to still be BJ?

Allow me to contribute to the discussion: This is particularly directed towards the powers-that-be who can/will provide us a dedicated sub-board-thingamajig. Surely, you're thinking: "WHY DO THEY NEED SO MANY THREADS!?"

Well, it can be a bit complicated ...

NEW PLAYERS THREAD: Intended as a "one stop shop" for any interested future players. Will contain a brief description of the game, links to the world map, wiki, and other sites of interest.

NOTICEBOARD: If you play MMOs or other such online games, you will be familiar with a "client" or "launcher," a game's "front page" so to speak. The Noticeboard serves that purpose - it lists major announcements that are not related to battles or movement.

BATTLE ANNOUNCEMENTS: This thread's sole purpose is for the Movement Judge to list the upcoming battles. No other posts are to be allowed in this thread in order to simplify finding specific information or an individual's responsibilities for that turn (should his or her army be engaged in a battle). It can be argued that the BATTLE RESULTS page could be merged with this one for simplicity's sake.

OPEN STRAT MINIQUEST: Please refer to my explanation here.

PORTAL, BASE, TOWN, AND OTHER BATTLEGROUND DESCRIPTIONS: This is exactly what it sounds like. Each Phyrexian Portal and Coalition Base is a unique stronghold which presents formidable challenges for any potential invader - imagine a portal surrounded by marshes filled with noxious fumes and wailing undead, for starters; defenses become more ridiculous the deeper you go.

Towns are valuable locations on the map which offer reinforcements, sometimes making them crucial staging areas for smaller armies to congregate around. These, too, have their own unique defenders that are hostile to both sides and gaining its resources/bonuses require conquering its inhabitants.

Other battlegrounds are essentially just that - descriptions of plains, islands, swamps, mountains, and forests as to remove all doubt when it comes to writing strategies on such terrain.

PHYREXIAN COUNCIL and the COALITION COUNCIL: Central discussion hubs for either side. Ideally, posting would be limited to the faction's specific members, but daring raids by the dauntless (like yours truly) on enemy boards occasionally happen. Topics discussed usually involve promotions/demotions, new player introductions, and general in-house small talk. Battle plans are made in private boards that are outside of NGA to prevent revealing the super secret stuff.

As Pacone mentioned, the Coalition once had seven councils (White, Blue, Black, Red, Green, Artifact, and Gold) and each had its own thread. I am inclined to agree with his assessment that that's overkill: Currently, and for the foreseeable future, we have no need to have so many separate threads. One will do for the entire Coalition.

And last, but not the least, THE CLUB: SHENANIGANS APLENTY! Anything goes in this house of debauchery, this field of flabbergasting, a temple of sin. TGL is its erstwhile bartender and CoS the trashy, redneck lounge lizard. Grammar Ninjas make rare appearances and noobs are openly (but lovingly) bashed. If we were to be given one thread, make it this one. Yes.

To what degree are the players willing to host information like Portal / Base / Town / Etc Descriptions on the wiki?

Also note that while I think a good run down of the rules should be on the wiki that a New Players Thread is a must.

I second this motion.


Also, unless the War Game ends up getting its own subforum, I'd say THE CLUB may need a different thread name in order to be distinguished easily from the many Out Of Character threads in the Play-By-Post Area. Of course, this may be as simple as naming it "[CWG]The Club", so take that as you will.

Well thus far our stance has been to get a feel for different communities and see if they're going to be active enough to warrant a forum split. So as the CWG got started here it would most likely be broken down to into "In Game" threads in Structured Games and "Out of Game" threads in the OoC area. I understand of course that the nature of the CWG means it wont fit exactly into the forums like a D20 RPG would, and I know that CWG players would be used to having their own area from back on WotC... but I have faith that if we got the ball rolling here, organized information on the wiki, and kept the game active that it would very quickly prove to be the sort of project deserving of its own forum.

I'll in fact go ahead and add CWG tags to the PBP forums just so they're in place when people need them. And if there's anything at all that I can do to help in game setup and creation, or any questions from the players regarding NGA-isms I'll gladly answer them or get people in touch with someone who can.

Ah, I see, all the time I was thinking in subforum ways, I understand your concerns now.

Of course portal an base description could be placed, actually, it belongs in the wiki

Will the same portal and base etc descriptions from the old site be being used here?

I could start slapping more stuff onto the wiki if thats the case. Most of it would be copy paste at first and then people can come through and trim it down to what they want.

Thanking thee Sapper! Much appreciated! We will get to figuring out the how and putting things together on that front once this lot hath got the preparation bit down.

So then, army design and rank assignment! No more slacking now, get onto that one. We art sure thee would prefer to do it thyselves than get a TGLian assigned set (or us deciding on the Coalition General and Phyrexian Chief Praetor). Last round there was a stronghold that was a giant banana, no one (... few ... not entirely everyone ...) wants to fight epic battles over a banana, so hop to it! Bear in mind that it will take us a bit to make any changes necessary too and input a few more armies.
This is also the chance if thee want the bases/strongholds to be redesigned to do that too. As it is, most towns, the strongholds, and bases art already there (although the observable features of the bases seem to be lacking). But if desire further customisation, now is the time.
(Portals and most towns already on the site, there is also quite a few bits and pieces remaining on the terrain from the past (like Myril's Landing), and a few 'interesting' forms of terrain for surprising fun. But copy/paste what is there across will be sufficient and things can be altered to suit - unfortunately if going from the old boards they seem to hath all reverted to what was originally submitted rather than the newest stuff >.<)

(CoS: We would really like to write strategies again, but need a judge, and we hath the stuff. So for now we shall be the Dice God Emissary, and thee can imagine that once more death and ruin will reign, with a high level of ambient destruction (and likely a somewhat loose control over what thee all get up to and likely a relatively high variability around extremes).

Okay, first question. Do you want all descriptions on one page or each to have their own but then link to a common page?

For example ... brace yourself for awesome MS Paint work :

http://wiki.nogoblinsallowed.com/index. ... tions_(CWG)

As you can see, having it on one page is hand because you can navigate to everything fairly simply without having to navigate to multiple pages. But I'm not even halfway done and the page is massive already.

I may break it down into seperate pages.

For some reason that isn't getting parsed correctly; the closing parentheses is not being included in the url. I'll go make a bug report.

QUICKEDIT: Needed to add a space after the quote code for it to parse the url at all.

Meanwhile, the LINK

After the shock of awesome m4d p4int skillz passes, Pacone replies

Given the usual size of the base description, multiple pages seems more reasonable.

Other structure descriptions are shorter, they may fit together in one page

Alright, well next time I find myself able to hack at the wiki I'll hack it down into multiple pages and pretty up the main page.

So my wiki to-do currently is:

• Finish the CWG main page
• Streamline the rules page
• Break location descriptions into multiple pages
• Pretty up the description main page
• Link location description page to CWG main page
• Apply [[Category:Coalition Wargame]] to all CWG pages
• Request CWG project be listed on main wiki page.

Thanking thee Bounty Hunter! Looking rather good there, once we art not avoiding writing at every opportunity (thesis!), we will get that minimum basic set of rules for new comers together for thee.

Probably best to keep the descriptions all on own pages indeed, it should also make it easier to track when we stop by to add the lasting damages on there (for towns and things particularly). Portals should probably go on their own page though, just because they tend to be just 'this one goes here.'

We would like to mention that those art the Round 5 descriptions too. Sheila was later Phyrexianised at the hand of Tevish, creating the center of Phyrexian operations on Dominaria. Before being killed by Myril we think it was. Karesta exploded too, which reminds us, we'll hath to collect some of those War Game stories to add!

Yeah, frankly the Wiki functionality is something we could have always used.

Simply going off what is visible on the boards. If theres newer stuff somewhere someone else should start bringing some stuff over.

Good job on The wiki BH!

Shouldnt we already have leaders??? Isuggest kelket and tevish, naturally!t

Its my day off tommorow so I'll be tearing apart the descriptions into several pages.

And see what else I can haul over for the wiki.