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Hello all, this is a subject I've avoided for a long time, but when LG appears it will become more important.

Ranks in NBC : Up to now it's been little more than a bit of fun what rank members hold, it's not really made any difference to anything, but, when LG arrives it will do.

As an example : If NBC x 3 play KO x 3, one of each side will be the CiC, now in NBC this will be the highest ranking Officer, the other two will take their orders from the CiC, so if you would like to be the "boss" on the battlefield you will need to be the highest ranking Officer in the battle, with an exception now and then, when I'm in the game.....I will NOT always take the CiC spot, but will hand it over to the next highest in rank to take Command.

So, if you would like to be the CiC you need to be a higher rank than others in the battle........there are many ways to rise up the ranks. If there is more than one player with the same rank the one highest on the NBC rankings list will assume Command.

We have at least a few months (I assume) till LG arrives so it gives everyone a chance to make an upward move by posting their battle wins and contributing to NBC in any way that makes things that little bit more interesting for us all. As a reminder, it'is not only battle wins that help, but taking part and generally getting involved.

Having re-read the above post, do you think this is a "mistake" ?.

My idea (as you may have guessed) was to "reward" those members who are more active and interested in NBC with the CiC position during LG MP battles......but, is there a downside to this ?. Those in the lower ranks may not get the chance to take the CiC position very often, only when there are 2,3 or 4 lower ranks all together with the likes of me and Dougie NOT being around. So, how to overcome this, while at the same time keeping some "reward" for the higher ranks.

Perhaps it's as simple as doing the above, but letting the lower ranks take a turn in the CiC position sometimes.

I will give it some more thought, we have loads of time yet, but I'd like to find a "fair" way for the higher ranks to mostly be the CiC, while other, lower ranks, make their way up to that position over time. It seems wrong to me to have, say a new(ish) member at Major rank, to take the CiC position when myself and Dougie (NBC vets !) are in the same game.

I would hope that those interested enough to be in NBC might understand this concept, but if it appears unreasonable please let me know here.

Yours seems to be a good option...

But how about deciding ranks for LG battles with a ranking system similar to the one we had in CBL?
I mean we may either use victory numbers (as we now use in CBL for promotions and awards) or success ratio (victories/total battles as we currently use for hall of fame) to assign player ranks in LG battles.
For example in CBL: Gunner is Colonel, Dougiej is major,Ank is Capitaine so if we play against other clans we may use this order from highest to lowest...or that may be applied to battles among ourselves too.

*We may have to start a new league for LG course. so we either have separate, CB and LG Leagues or combine both of them and make a new NL(Napoleonic League), pointing based on the success ratio.

**Btw, yesterday we had a ntw2 battle against grogs and we played it with a bit like “LG feeling”. I mean playing with a ranking system... Ziethen sometimes giving some critical orders…was really interesting, playing ntw2-cb-etw style games that way may also worth trying.

What do you think?

All good idea's but I do prefer something that takes account of the NBC Official ranks, as this is the group we are involved in and people have "earnt" their rank here in different ways.

To have members with different ranks in different games seems a bit confusing to me, we have set ranks in NBC (which many are not interested in) so I think we should use them and maybe then people will get more interested in their NBC rank.

I don't like the idea of having NBC without any ranks for the members, so that is a non starter.

Maybe it won't matter, like it never really mattered in ntw2.

Perhaps the best way to deal with this is that the game host takes Command.

Hmm. I missed this thread somehow until today. I like the idea. I think it would give some real meaning to the NBC rank and as such is an idea well worth pursing. I see Anks point as well, that perhaps ability in one game won't translate into ability in another type of game, but then again, command and control in a Napoleonic style should, theoretically at least, translate among all decent Nappy games. Being good with the mouse doesn't necessarily mean you'll be a good CiC, this takes an ability to get out understandable and reasonable orders to your sub-ordinate Generals. Perhaps there is room to use success with MP games as part of the measure by which you attain rank in NBC?

Cheers, M.

Very good, I need some more opinions about this subject over the comming weeks/months, still waiting to hear what Dougie thinks.


This has always been a big part of NBC promotions, together with taking part as well, that is why I encourage people to post their MP battle results, this is the main reason Dougie rose though the ranks so quickly, plus his "interest" in NBC as well.

I would prefer the NBC ranks to count for something, but if there were very strong objections to that I'm sure we could work something else out, there are a few different ways to make it work.

But as a quick example, say we have A, B and C from NBC in a 3v3 MP battle.....if A and B are Majors and C is a MajGen, then C should take the CiC spot, most of the time, there can always be exceptions.

Very difficult to take a decision. No one have played the game, except some happyfews beta testers. Wiser could be to wait to the game else it is like disussing on rumors like in a conscript chamber.

A very fair point GP, but when the first LG MP game is played, someone will have to be the CiC,,,,should it be the highest ranking NBC in the battle, or the game host ?.

Well i would suggest that the highest ranking NBC player would be the logical choice, but i dont expect this to be set in stone,
I would be more than willing to step aside to give somebody else the chance for overall command and im sure G24 would as well.