Good call

Steel God · 08-20-2008, 11:17 PM,

Mad Russian Wrote:I wouldn't worry too much about it. The CM community at least is shrinking.

Okay, found a do-dad that allowed me to compile some stats without having to hurt myself. I removed the smaller communities from the stats. These are the number of games reported on the ladders listed in the calendar month noted. The Club total number includes the smaller communities which I did not list separately. It doesn't show membership so much as activity, will see if I can extract something similar for members.

LADDER July 2008 June 2008 May 2008

Campaign Series 146 125 133
Combat Mission 144 151 193
HPS OpC 49 66 40
Operational Art 12 28 22
Squad Battles 54 46 36
Steel Panthers 60 36 43
CLUB 479 459 475

PoorOldSpike · (This post was last modified: 08-20-2008, 11:32 PM by Steel God.)

Steel God Wrote:Just a reminder gentlemen to not have a debate about another web site here at the Blitz..

Quite right too captain my captain, there's nothing to debate anyway because it's common knowledge around the CM community that my tac posts, playtests and superhuman wit form the backbone of that other site

Edit: A small barb removed by moderator.

PS- CM will never die until something better comes along, it's been going strong for 7 years now and is still head and shoulders above all other tac wargames, I've organised 6 tourneys so far and more people (35) have entered my latest Green Light than any previous one; GL has already drawn 6000 thread views in one month so far..:)

Steel God · (This post was last modified: 08-20-2008, 11:25 PM by Steel God.)

And here are the numbers of "active members" on the respective ladders for the months indicated. Activity is determined strictly by who has been involved in a game, and doesn't include someone who just posts on the forum for example. While there are 1000s of accounts in the database, activity for this purpose focuses only on reporting a game within the given month. Again, I have eliminated the smaller communities to cut down on eye strain ;) and the Club numbers retain those counts.

LADDER July 2008 June 2008 May 2008

Campaign Series 112 94 96
Combat Mission 118 129 133
HPS Operational Campaigns 62 73 60
Operational Art of War 16 32 25
Squad Battles 21 28 26
Steel Panthers 54 42 47
CLUB 356 364 354

Steel God · 08-21-2008, 12:10 AM,

PoorOldSpike Wrote:Quite right too captain my captain, there's nothing to debate anyway because it's common knowledge around the CM community that my tac posts, playtests and superhuman wit form the backbone of that other site

A fact I could not comment on Mick, as I have never been to the other site. But be that as it may, I would respectfully request that you confine yourself to speaking of your contributions here, to this Club, which are many, and appreciated.

Thank you.

PoorOldSpike · 08-21-2008, 12:24 AM,

Steel God Wrote:I would respectfully request that you confine yourself to speaking of your contributions here, to this Club, which are many, and appreciated.

Thank you our Guiding Star; I'm sure I speak for all when I say your moderation of this thread has been a brilliant example of how to wield the editing scalpel with a fearless dexterity and decisiveness that would take even Doctor Houses breath away..:)