Care of "The Armchair General", Old Soldiers now has a forum devoted to the magazine and to the discussion of old wargames and the smaller disenfranchised wargame company's works. The location is:
A few small rules are probably needed, though these ought to be common sense. For one, there are to be absolutely no "Topic Nazis" If someone continues to post out of topic in a specific thread, then it will be noticed by forum administrators. There is to be absolutely no one running around posting nasty grams because they think they've the right to complain about someone being occasionally of topic or having accidentally unknowningly strayed. This is something I will not tolerate.
Also, there is already a forum for modern politics at the Armchair General's site. Use it for that purpose if you feel the need.
The main thrust of the forum is to serve the needs of players seeking to find opponents for old games, seeking to promote the play of older games, seeking to collaborate on articles for old games, or simply to discuss the relative merits of old games. Threads offering old games and their accoutrements for sale are perfectly fine. Indeed we should start one single thread for that purpose.
I'd suggest that individual threads be started for specific games simply indexed by that game's name. No need to get so technical that we stratify games into specific types and era's, a game's title indexes them alphabetically and that serves well enough - works for Grognards it'll work here too. Soon enough, if and when there becomes a great number of games being discussed, the forum operators will collect them into their own sub heading of "Game Discussions".
Anyway, you get the idea. A forum for the use of Old Soldiers has been graciously built for us by our friends at the Armchair General (by the way, whose own publication is top notch).
