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Forum: Mason Dixon Tavern Topic: New Recruit (USA) |
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Posted: Sat Dec 27, 2025 8:18 pm
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Forum: Mason Dixon Tavern Topic: What If Scenarios |
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Posted: Tue Dec 23, 2025 10:50 am
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Replies: 3
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| Playing the "What If" game is hard with WDS games because we, the player, are always in command. So the hypothetical "what if Hooker led at Antietam instead of McClellan?" question is a moot point because we play the role of AC in both situations. Therefore, anything dealing with... |
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Forum: Mason Dixon Tavern Topic: File Name Question |
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Posted: Fri Dec 19, 2025 8:37 pm
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Replies: 6
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| Don't overthink this. Every time I download a game file from an email with the same exact name as an existing file, Google automatically renames the file with a (1) next to it. So... BSPS_Gettysburg.bte BSPS_Gettysburg (1).bte BSPS_Gettysburg (2).bte BSPS_Gettysburg (3).bte In my game folder I will ... |
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Forum: Mason Dixon Tavern Topic: MELEE IN COLUMN |
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Posted: Wed Dec 17, 2025 11:18 am
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| You will get a lot of different opinions on this issue. Just to clarify the basics... Melee in Column is always allowed in all games unless the players agree beforehand to disallow it. That is a common misunderstanding people have. The intent behind the No Melee in Column House Rule is to avoid sit... |
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Forum: Mason Dixon Tavern Topic: Ammunition Idea |
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Posted: Sat Dec 13, 2025 12:01 am
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Replies: 3
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| This is just for fun. WDS has no plans to change anything that I am aware of. Right now the units in our games have about a 4% chance of being Low on Ammo with each firing action. WDS states, "Having a full complement of ammunition was never guaranteed in any battle. While most often, a unit h... |
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Forum: Mason Dixon Tavern Topic: CW Talk Radio -S.2-Ep.27- What Everybody Knows |
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Posted: Tue Dec 09, 2025 7:10 pm
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| EPISODE 2.27 - April 14, 2006 What Everybody Knows Guest: Joshua Wolf Shenk Everybody knows that Lincoln suffered from depression, right? Joshua Wolf Shenk, author of Lincoln's Melancholy: How Depression Challenged a President and Fueled His Greatness, takes closer look at what we really know about... |
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Forum: Mason Dixon Tavern Topic: CW Talk Radio -S.2-Ep.27- What Everybody Knows |
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Posted: Tue Dec 09, 2025 6:51 pm
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| EPISODE 2.26 - April 7, 2006 Far from Farb Guest: Robert Lee Hodge You've seen him in movies, TV, and on the cover of Confederates in the Attic. Now he researches and produces his own Civil War films. Spend a fascinating hour with Robert Lee Hodge. Blake's Review: This is more of a friendly chat wi... |
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Forum: Mason Dixon Tavern Topic: CW Talk Radio -S.2-Ep.27- What Everybody Knows |
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Posted: Tue Dec 09, 2025 6:45 pm
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| EPISODE 2.25 - March 31, 2006 Living With Lincoln Guest: Doris Kearns Goodwin Dr. Doris Kearns Goodwin discusses her prize-winning study of Lincoln and his Cabinet, Team of Rivals: the Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln. Blake's Review: I was very much looking forward to this one! Unfortunately, t... |
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Forum: Mason Dixon Tavern Topic: CW Talk Radio -S.2-Ep.27- What Everybody Knows |
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Posted: Tue Dec 09, 2025 6:43 pm
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| EPISODE 2.24 - March 26, 2006 The Civil War Underwater Guest: James Delgado Beyond the CSS Hunley, the Civil War saw the invention of other submersible warships, and Dr. James P. Delgado has found one of them intact. Blake's Review: This isn't a bad interview... but it's also not really that good e... |
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Forum: Mason Dixon Tavern Topic: CW Talk Radio -S.2-Ep.27- What Everybody Knows |
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Posted: Tue Dec 02, 2025 8:58 pm
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| EPISODE 2.23 - March 10, 2006 Why a Sphinx? Guest: Thomas J. Brown Dr. Thomas J. Brown, author of The Public Art of Civil War Commemoration, analyzes the meaning of monuments. Blake's Review: Why are there Civil War monuments? Basically, that's the question being asked here. Thomas Brown concentrat... |
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Forum: Mason Dixon Tavern Topic: NEWBIE INFORMATION |
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Posted: Tue Nov 25, 2025 3:44 pm
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Replies: 18
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| 2. Skirmishers True they give you eyes out 2 hexes but also, they cost your opponent movement points to enter, However, once the first unit moves in this extra cost does not apply to others that move in. I have never used skirmishers much. In the woods I understand the point. But in open fields whe... |
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Forum: Mason Dixon Tavern Topic: NEWBIE INFORMATION |
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Posted: Tue Nov 25, 2025 10:58 am
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| BTW, for those interested in scenario design and related to the topic of delayed reinforcements. Scenarios can be either altered or newly created that use "Alternative" entry hexes with variable times of entry. In using this feature, the above topic would be moot. I have used it on severa... |
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Forum: Mason Dixon Tavern Topic: CW Talk Radio -S.2-Ep.27- What Everybody Knows |
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Posted: Mon Nov 24, 2025 10:28 pm
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| EPISODE 2.22 - March 3, 2006 What Really Happened at Ball's Bluff? Guest: James A. Morgan III James A. Morgan III, author of A Little Short of Boats: The Fights at Ball's Bluff and Edwards Ferry Blake's Review: This is a decent interview which is worth a listen if you are interested in the Battle o... |
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Forum: Mason Dixon Tavern Topic: NEWBIE INFORMATION |
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Posted: Mon Nov 24, 2025 8:21 pm
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| I delay reinforcements all the time. It is a necessity in some situations where the enemy has worked their way to the edges of the map in order to ambush your men as they enter. No sane player is going to bring troops onto the board where they can be slaughtered. And if it was "required" t... |
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Forum: Mason Dixon Tavern Topic: Monthly musters |
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Posted: Mon Nov 24, 2025 8:14 pm
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Replies: 4
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| Sorry, just now noticed this. As Ned said, Mustering is an essential part of the Club's admin duties so we know "who is here." We debated monthly vs. quarterly for many years until finally, earlier this year, the Club voted to make it monthly in the Club Rules. In the end, whether we did i... |
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