I’ve spent quite a bit of time over the past two days getting the stuff ready for the VCOW session Gary Sheffield and I will be running. The scenario is almost ready to send out, and the PowerPoint presentation needs just a few small tweaks. Gary and I will be having a technical rehearsal/check on Thursday, by which time the participants will have had the opportunity to read their briefing notes and ask any questions that they have.
Bookings for VCOW2021 are now closed, and over sixty people booked places, which is more than we had for VCOW2020. Regardless as to whether or not COW2021 will take place in July, it looks as if VCOW will become a regular event organised by Wargame Developments.
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Hi Bob. Very much looking forward to VCOW. If you need a "naive" 3rd party to help with your technical rehearsal, I'd be happy to tune in if I am around at the planned time.
ReplyDeleteSimon
Simon,
DeleteI’m just waiting for Gary to send me a couple of slides he wants included in the PowerPoint presentation and to check over the paperwork I’ll be sending out, and then we will be able to ‘rock and roll’!
Thanks for your kind offer to help with the technical rehearsal. Both Gary and I have used Zoom quite extensively over the past year ... but never using a suspended camera before! We hope to use it to show things as they happen on the tabletop, hence the need for a technical rehearsal. Assuming that it will work, we should not need more than ten or fifteen minutes. If it doesn’t ... then we need to do a bit of a rethink.
All the best,
Bob
Looks like on line events will be happening for quite a while, and for some purposes they are perfect, though there's still nothing like actually meeting people!
ReplyDeleteMaudlin Jack Tar,
DeleteI suspect that virtual or distanced face-to-face wargaming will become part of what we do in the hobby, even when the pandemic is over. A group within Wargame Developments had been running large multi centre, multiplayer, distanced wargames for some years before the pandemic was upon us using whatever technology was available.
I took part in one as Fidel Castro during a recreation of the Cuban Missile Crisis, and I had to communicate with my Russian ‘allies’ (who were in Sheffield whilst I was in London) using texts. As the crisis escalated, the communications got a bit out of sync, and at one point the Russians were ‘suggesting’ courses of action that just did not conform with the situation on the ground because they had not had time to read my feedback from previous messages. It all got very messy ... and very realistic!
All the best,
Bob
Bob, very much looking forward to next weekend. Home the process of preparation isn’t too onerous for you and goes well.
ReplyDeleteTradgardmastare,
DeleteI am also looking forward to VCOW.
I’ve actually enjoyed preparing the scenario etc. It’s really helped to kick my brain into gear after such a long period of relative inactivity.
All the best,
Bob
Oh no! Did I miss the sign up date to attend as an audience member? Or by bookings did you mean appearing as a speaker?
ReplyDeleteMr. Pavone,
DeleteYou could still sign up to be a session spectator, but all the game participation places have gone.
All the best,
Bob
VCoW was a huge achievement .. well done to the WD Committee :)
ReplyDeleteGeordie an Exiled FoG,
DeleteWe are still on a bit of a learning curve, but we’ve got a lot of experience to draw on.
All the best,
Bob