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Re: Marksmanship Tracking Sheet for Admiralty Order 1803-03

PostPosted:Thu May 09, 2019 11:03 pm
by Peter Gold
You want the range challenge.
I'm on my phone so I can't really see what problem there might be with the spreadsheet.
The marksmanship one I have is mostly board games for the prepopulated list.

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Re: Marksmanship Tracking Sheet for Admiralty Order 1803-03

PostPosted:Thu May 09, 2019 11:28 pm
by Frank Gonzalez
Peter Gold wrote:You want the range challenge.
I'm on my phone so I can't really see what problem there might be with the spreadsheet.
The marksmanship one I have is mostly board games for the prepopulated list.

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Peter

The last version available doesn't add up the hours played and I can't seem to add the hours on the first sheet.



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Re: Marksmanship Tracking Sheet for Admiralty Order 1803-03

PostPosted:Sat May 11, 2019 5:38 pm
by Erik Plossl
Ok, so I am not sure which spreadsheet some of you are talking about. The spreadsheet linked in the first post on this thread is problematic for several reasons. The OP's spreadsheet doesn't include tracking for different types of awards, it doesn't properly calculate the multiplier, and is great for tracking a single person's gaming, but not good for tracking more than one. The result is that you have to have separate entries for multiple people and that can get tedious to update.

Assuming that you're looking for a spreadsheet to track the hours you personally spend gaming, the one in the OP on this thread could be used, with a few modifications. Additionally, you would need to have one copy of the spreadsheet for each category of game.

In my personal opinion, the spreadsheet linked in this thread (viewtopic.php?f=567&t=6721) is far better. That said, it has a couple issues as well. Unfortunately, it has a couple of bugs that I have found and the OP who posted it (Christopher Bayonet) has run into some RL issues and hasn't had time to work with it. He locked it down when he released it, which means I can't get in to edit some of the parts which seem to need fixing. I'm therefore tempted to try to reconstruct it to fix the errors I see, but I know he was working on rebuilding it entirely before RL decided that it needed attention. If you need some help with that spreadsheet, here's the fundamental usage:

1. Open the spreadsheet and start by going to the Member List. List the members in your chapter including all the details you can get.
2. Go to the Chapter tab and enter the details for the chapters represented in the member list tab. There can be more than one chapter listed (this is a great spreadsheet for TG or Fleet to track awards, with some limitations).
3. Go to the Game List tab and ensure that the game you are playing is listed. If not, add it to the bottom of the list of games with appropriate details. *IMPORTANT* This must be done to get the spreadsheet to track hours properly!
4. Once all those things are in place, go to the Game Log page. Starting at the top of the spreadsheet (note, you can enter data, but you cannot delete rows or copy/paste for entry of multiple entries at a time, an unfortunate limitation), add in a row for each game played. Select the name of the game from the pulldown in the first column, the date you played, the location played, the start and end times for the game, and use the drop-downs in the rest of the columns to the right to select the names of the players (which you put into the Member List tab initially). Note that if you manually type these items in and don't *EXACTLY* match the name of the game or the member, it won't count properly.
5. On the Award Log page, enter in any awards you (or any of the other members) already have. Note that there are a couple of issues here, but I can address those separately.
6. Go back to the member list. Once a member has completed the necessary hours of gaming to earn a particular level of Marksmanship award, an X will appear next to their name. Go back to the page called Marksmanship Award (Master) and select the member's name from the drop down at the top of the page. The fields will all auto-populate with the information about the member and about which awards they qualify for, based upon time spent playing.

It should be noted that the following errors seem to be present in this spreadsheet:
1. The award log needs to be filled out for every award a member has earned, even if it isn't applicable to their branch, for the Member List "X" to show up correctly.
2. The award log can have only one entry per member per award. That is to say that if you earned the Sharpshooter Rifle award and then subsequently earned the Rifle Expert award, you would have to update the existing Rifle Sharpshooter entry to show as Expert. The spreadsheet will not continue looking for additional rows with the data for higher awards in a single category for the same member.

I think I found some other issues, but I can't recall them offhand. In any case, I hope this helps someone. Personally, I think this is a great tool, I just wish I could get in and help fix it to make it better. If you find yourself in need of assistance to get the tool I linked working, please feel free to reach out to me here or via email at eplossl.trmn@gmail.com.

Re: Marksmanship Tracking Sheet for Admiralty Order 1803-03

PostPosted:Sat May 11, 2019 7:36 pm
by Larry D French Sr
I'm not a gamer. It has been years since I even participated in a Facebook game and 40-50 years since I played Atari Games. I was just asked to track these games for the Black Sphinx Cup Challenge for my chapter without a clue how to do that. I had received a few questions about if a particular game qualifies and I have no idea and I cannot get any other assistance from anyone including the Fleet Liaison.


Erik Plossl wrote:
Sat May 11, 2019 5:38 pm
Ok, so I am not sure which spreadsheet some of you are talking about. The spreadsheet linked in the first post on this thread is problematic for several reasons. The OP's spreadsheet doesn't include tracking for different types of awards, it doesn't properly calculate the multiplier, and is great for tracking a single person's gaming, but not good for tracking more than one. The result is that you have to have separate entries for multiple people and that can get tedious to update.

Assuming that you're looking for a spreadsheet to track the hours you personally spend gaming, the one in the OP on this thread could be used, with a few modifications. Additionally, you would need to have one copy of the spreadsheet for each category of game.

In my personal opinion, the spreadsheet linked in this thread (viewtopic.php?f=567&t=6721) is far better. That said, it has a couple issues as well. Unfortunately, it has a couple of bugs that I have found and the OP who posted it (Christopher Bayonet) has run into some RL issues and hasn't had time to work with it. He locked it down when he released it, which means I can't get in to edit some of the parts which seem to need fixing. I'm therefore tempted to try to reconstruct it to fix the errors I see, but I know he was working on rebuilding it entirely before RL decided that it needed attention. If you need some help with that spreadsheet, here's the fundamental usage:

1. Open the spreadsheet and start by going to the Member List. List the members in your chapter including all the details you can get.
2. Go to the Chapter tab and enter the details for the chapters represented in the member list tab. There can be more than one chapter listed (this is a great spreadsheet for TG or Fleet to track awards, with some limitations).
3. Go to the Game List tab and ensure that the game you are playing is listed. If not, add it to the bottom of the list of games with appropriate details. *IMPORTANT* This must be done to get the spreadsheet to track hours properly!
4. Once all those things are in place, go to the Game Log page. Starting at the top of the spreadsheet (note, you can enter data, but you cannot delete rows or copy/paste for entry of multiple entries at a time, an unfortunate limitation), add in a row for each game played. Select the name of the game from the pulldown in the first column, the date you played, the location played, the start and end times for the game, and use the drop-downs in the rest of the columns to the right to select the names of the players (which you put into the Member List tab initially). Note that if you manually type these items in and don't *EXACTLY* match the name of the game or the member, it won't count properly.
5. On the Award Log page, enter in any awards you (or any of the other members) already have. Note that there are a couple of issues here, but I can address those separately.
6. Go back to the member list. Once a member has completed the necessary hours of gaming to earn a particular level of Marksmanship award, an X will appear next to their name. Go back to the page called Marksmanship Award (Master) and select the member's name from the drop down at the top of the page. The fields will all auto-populate with the information about the member and about which awards they qualify for, based upon time spent playing.

It should be noted that the following errors seem to be present in this spreadsheet:
1. The award log needs to be filled out for every award a member has earned, even if it isn't applicable to their branch, for the Member List "X" to show up correctly.
2. The award log can have only one entry per member per award. That is to say that if you earned the Sharpshooter Rifle award and then subsequently earned the Rifle Expert award, you would have to update the existing Rifle Sharpshooter entry to show as Expert. The spreadsheet will not continue looking for additional rows with the data for higher awards in a single category for the same member.

I think I found some other issues, but I can't recall them offhand. In any case, I hope this helps someone. Personally, I think this is a great tool, I just wish I could get in and help fix it to make it better. If you find yourself in need of assistance to get the tool I linked working, please feel free to reach out to me here or via email at eplossl.trmn@gmail.com.

Re: Marksmanship Tracking Sheet for Admiralty Order 1803-03

PostPosted:Sat May 11, 2019 8:37 pm
by Laura Lochen, 1SL
Larry the best place to ask questions about the BSC would be on that forum. This one is about a completely different activity in the club. You could also email intel@1sl.trmn.org and ask @Steven Rosenthal.


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Re: Marksmanship Tracking Sheet for Admiralty Order 1803-03

PostPosted:Sun May 12, 2019 1:31 am
by Peter Gold
Larry D French Sr wrote:
Sat May 11, 2019 7:36 pm
I'm not a gamer. It has been years since I even participated in a Facebook game and 40-50 years since I played Atari Games. I was just asked to track these games for the Black Sphinx Cup Challenge for my chapter without a clue how to do that. I had received a few questions about if a particular game qualifies and I have no idea and I cannot get any other assistance from anyone including the Fleet Liaison.
Just about any game counts. You don't even have to know what category of the marksmanship award it goes in. If you have a question about a specific game, people should be able to answer it if you post the name of the game.
The spreadsheet in this thread is overkill for the BSC, although it's a good way for the members to earn their marksmanship ribbons.
The BSC spreadsheet needs a column for the name of the game, a column for time played and columns for each person playing a given game. If most of your games are for say 4 or fewer people, you'd only need 4 columns for member names.

Re: Marksmanship Tracking Sheet for Admiralty Order 1803-03

PostPosted:Tue May 14, 2019 4:37 am
by Jill McTavish
Larry D French Sr wrote:
Sat May 11, 2019 7:36 pm
I was just asked to track these games for the Black Sphinx Cup Challenge for my chapter without a clue how to do that. I had received a few questions about if a particular game qualifies and I have no idea and I cannot get any other assistance from anyone including the Fleet Liaison.
As per my reply to this very question on Facebook https://www.facebook.com/groups/2ndFlee ... 061752204/, everything that you need to collect is in the BSC Manual, which you can get in the downloads section on trmn.org. I also offered to answer any questions you have once you read it. The Fleet Liaison "liked" this response, indicating it is correct.

I believe your skipper has also directly sent you this manual. It really does explain everything you need to list to submit your chapter's entry for the challenge very well. So please read it, as it also has all the details on what you need for ALL the challenges this year, including the Range Challenge.

Also, please do not say you have not gotten any help when you have not responded to the information and offers of help you have already received. It throws people under the bus who HAVE offered to help you, and makes everybody (including you and your ship) look bad.

Lastly, if you did not see my response, it may be because you responded to another thread instead of starting your own. That FB post, as well as this thread here on the forums are not on the exact same topic as your question, making it difficult for those in the know to find your query and promptly answer it. Starting your own posts (on FB or the forums) for new topics will help everybody. After all, somebody might have the same question! It is also common forum etiquette, so please try to remember this going forward.


I hope this helps!

Re: Marksmanship Tracking Sheet for Admiralty Order 1803-03

PostPosted:Sun Jun 21, 2020 4:09 pm
by Philip Culmer
Two questions for an addition to the sheet:
  1. May I please have the password by PM so that I can add Lovelace and Babbage to the games list
  2. Would this come under family board game or genre board game?

Re: Marksmanship Tracking Sheet for Admiralty Order 1803-03

PostPosted:Sun Jun 21, 2020 4:49 pm
by William Karnesky
Philip Culmer wrote:
Sun Jun 21, 2020 4:09 pm
Would this come under family board game or genre board game?
It, from my reading, is a casual game designed to be playing in roughly 30 minutes or less. It isn't classified as a Family game, Isn't a children's game, and isn't a combat game.

For that reason, I believe that this game would best qualify as Grenade.

Hope that helps,
William E Karnesky, KDE, OG, CBM
Lieutenant Commander, RMN
Deputy Staff Tactical Officer, Office of the FLA

Re: Marksmanship Tracking Sheet for Admiralty Order 1803-03

PostPosted:Thu Jun 25, 2020 6:01 pm
by Philip Culmer
Looking at the manual, I think it might be better placed as flechette gun - it's a tactical board game, with players controlling a single character.