While all the generals did (Up to a week late) get back to me with troop placements in the initial phase, only two countries (+ Rhine, which I was in charge of) actually gave me weekly orders as we had agreed. I still think it's the best way to go, but we were unfortunate. As with regiments, joining the steam group should have been mandatory. We had 30 people sign up in the end to play as Italy, but in the end, our steam group announcements only managed to bring 4 of them online. We had a steam group, but I feel like this wasn't advertised enough. We initially set a distant start date to get as many signups as we could before starting, as well as deciding properly on rules, commanders etc, but people forgot about it and for the most part, we had no way of informing them other than the forum, which leads me to my next point. After the initial swathe of signups, we waited to long to begin and people either forgot or lost touch. A lot of the concepts were right, but required a lot more admin work than we actually put in.

Not once did we have anyone fuck around, everyone who came was committed and it was brilliant. From the few practice battles we did before the campaign started, to the bot battles in empty provinces, to being destroyed by Prussia, every battle was intense, immersive, and best of all - troll free. The battles were an insane amount of fun. The number of people throwing themselves into helping with maps, with admining and helping to make the campaign was great.

In the end I think we had about 300-400 signups which is unprecedented. The encouragement and engagement from the community was outstanding. None of this is throwing any blame out, it is things that we did foresee, but decided to put a bit of trust in. I don't believe the concept is dead, but I think the way we went about it was fundamentally flawed. The decision was taken about a month into the campaign, and I'll list all the reasons below, along with some good things. It is with great regret that myself and the rest of the admin team have decided to postpone the NWCBC indefinitely.

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