Minor Con Medals
Greetings fellow Members,
The Minor Con medals are now uploaded.
The U.K. ribbon has been adapted from the 1939-1945 Star Medal, awarded to members of the British Commonwealth who served during WWII. One of the reasons for adopting this ribbon scheme was to differentiate the Minor Con medal from the 2012 Lend-Lease medal.
For more on convention medals, see http://www.wingsofwar.org/forums/sho...ght=con+medals
Australia
Europe
United Kingdom
United States
They look fantastic. Well done and a big thank you to all involved in the development of them.
See you on the Dark Side......
The UK one is the best. Nice work.
Will also be these medals divided into multiple levels?
PS: UK is not in EU? (just trolling, do not care about that)
There will be two levels - participant and GM. Each one is a one time medal.
The U.K. has a sizable group of members and many cons, so we thought it best to keep it separate from Europe.
No levels for the minior con medals. Once you have one, you have one. And yes, the UK is part of the EU, but due to geographical separation, we gave them their own.Originally Posted by Dan-Sam
Lol, Dan got double tapped!
There was only a joke about UK, it just me surprised.
What means "one time medal" - without stars on the ribbons?
Yes, we knew it was a joke... but needed to answer it anyway. One time does mean there will be no stars added to it. So if you attend 20 minor cons in your area, you will only get the one medal for it.
Better double than nothing. Thank you for your answers.
And, of course, its Britain. No other explanation is required
No other explanation is possible you meanAnd, of course, its Britain. No other explanation is required
United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, has a nice ring to it.
No other explanation is possible you mean
See you on the Dark Side......
It amounts to the same thingNo other explanation is possible you mean
Thank you for saving me the effort of having to explain.
Kyte.
"Courage is the art of being the only one who knows you're scared to death."
Apologies but nope it don't.
It amounts to the same thing
See you on the Dark Side......
Where is the criteria for the definition for Participant and GM please?
Last edited by Boney10; 01-28-2014 at 15:24.
Just to be clear attending a minor con where there is a WoG game? Obviously if I GM then there is a game.
What if you co-GM? Is that okay?
Participant = Playing in a Wings game at a Convention.
GM = Running the game that Participants play in at a Convention. Only one GM per game.
Many thanks for creating a Minor Medal for those that go to the smaller cons.
Thanks that's what I wasn't sure about.
Love the Ribbons Eric. Well done!
Very nice projects there, Eric
Frankly, Britain needs to have a separate medal also due to the number of gaming event taking place there, comparing to the Continent.
I realized that difference when asked my fellow members to assign medals for main and minor convention medals for continental Europe. It seems no one qualifies for any of them up till now
"We do not stop playing when we get old, but we get old when we stop playing."
I'll get a medal ribbon like my Dads at some point then !
Only if you are a very good boy Squadron Leader.
Kyte.
"Courage is the art of being the only one who knows you're scared to death."
I have my medals for that already !
And my Bulldog medal of course !!
I thought they were medals for getting away with it undetected Dave ?I have my medals for that already !
And my Bulldog medal of course !!
Kyte.
"Courage is the art of being the only one who knows you're scared to death."
The first is the Golden Jubilee Medal. The second is the Long Service & 'not getting caught' medal (Long Service & Good conduct). Colleague of mine got an oakleaf on his for chasing down an armed robber. Still not sure if he knew he had a gun! "Gun. What gun?"Not bad when you think all he had was a stick in his pocket...Not sure he even pulled it out either !
I got a LS & Not caugh Medal
"The object of presenting medals, stars, and ribbons is to give pride and pleasure to those who have deserved them. At the same time a distinction is something which everybody does not possess. If all have it it is of less value ... "
"The most difficult border line case is, of course, the anti-aircraft battery, and especially the Dover coastal batteries, which are constantly engaged with the enemy's artillery across the Straits. I have been most anxious to include these batteries in the 193943 ribbon. Up to the present I have found no way of doing so without opening the door, successively, first to the whole of the Ack-ack Command and, secondly, to the searchlights and predictors of all kinds, without which the guns cannot fire or cannot hit, and whose personnel were and still often are, in equal danger to that of the gunners. In the next place you would immediately come to the National Fire Service, whose casualties have been at a much heavier rate than the ack-ack batteries. And, then, what about the Police, who stood around and kept order and rendered every assistance? And what about the A.R.P. and the fireguards so often in danger and dis- 879 charging their work with so much efficiency as we can see even from our recent minor experiences? If the National Fire Service and others like them were included, how could the whole Regular Army which stood in Great Britain be excluded, or the Dominion Forces which performed here a vital strategic role? If the Regular Army were included, why should not the Home Guards be eligible, who did their work without pay at the end of long days, who wore their uniforms and played an essential part in hurling back the danger of invasion from our shores? There remain a number of other categories such as the training and maintenance personnel of the R.A.F., the bomb disposal squads, which is, with the ack-ack batteries, one of the balancing cases. In many cases personal decorations have been won on a large scale by that heroic band of men, but, at the same time, I am admitting quite frankly the difficulties which these cases have createdthe difficulty of denying and the difficulty of opening the door almost to a very vast extent.
If we were to take the whole course I have indicated and open the door to class after class, as I have shown you would be asked to do and bound to do, think, in logic, this would involve throwing the 193943 Star and Ribbon open to an additional 12,000,000 persons and by doing this I am sure you would take away much of the distinction now attaching to the decoration. It would become so common as to be very nearly universal. I am sure the soldier, the sailor and the airman returning from prolonged active service abroad and wearing the Africa or 193943 Star would feel bewildered when he saw all around him 12,000,000, mostly adult, males who had not left the island but had got the same ribbon too."
What we used to refer to as the 'Undetected Crime' medal for 15 years unblemished service.......
Neil
The first is the Golden Jubilee Medal. The second is the Long Service & 'not getting caught' medal (Long Service & Good conduct). Colleague of mine got an oakleaf on his for chasing down an armed robber. Still not sure if he knew he had a gun! "Gun. What gun?"
See you on the Dark Side......
Oakleaf, 'Mentioned in Dispatches', an honour to be awarded one and one to be proud of having too.
See you on the Dark Side......
Thanks for this. I have been wanting to run a game at a con but did not want to interfere with the higher ranks. There are a series of smaller cons in the area that I can run a game for.
Had to do twenty two for mine - a year after I retired it was changed to twenty years to bring it in line with other services - funnily enough that was instigated by a bloke with the same name as my Dad !
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