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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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| 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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| 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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| 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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Forum: Mason Dixon Tavern Topic: CW Talk Radio -S.2-Ep.27- What Everybody Knows |
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Posted: Fri Nov 21, 2025 9:31 pm
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| EPISODE 2.21 - February 24, 2006 Chief of the Battlefield Guest: Ed Bearss The legendary Ed Bearss, Chief Historian Emeritus of the National Park Service. Blake's Review: Ed Bearss was a legend in Civil War history and just an all around character. His distinct way of talking and phrasing make him ... |
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Forum: Mason Dixon Tavern Topic: CW Talk Radio -S.2-Ep.27- What Everybody Knows |
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Posted: Fri Nov 21, 2025 9:20 pm
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| EPISODE 2.20 - February 17, 2006 Fritz Klein IS Abraham Lincoln Guest: Fritz Klein Out of the more than one hundred people who make all or part of their living portraying Abraham Lincoln, none does it better than Richard 'Fritz' Klein. Blake's Review: I listened to this interview for a few minutes ... |
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Forum: Mason Dixon Tavern Topic: CW Talk Radio -S.2-Ep.27- What Everybody Knows |
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Posted: Wed Nov 19, 2025 11:28 pm
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| EPISODE 2.19 - February 3, 2006 The War After Appomattox Guest: Mark Bradley Mark Bradley, author of This Astounding Close: The Road to Bennett Place, discusses the North Carolina campaign of 1865. Blake's Review: This is a very good interview overall and worth a listen. They begin with the obvious... |
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Forum: Mason Dixon Tavern Topic: CW Talk Radio -S.2-Ep.27- What Everybody Knows |
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Posted: Wed Nov 19, 2025 10:59 pm
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| EPISODE 2.18 - January 27, 2006 If Brady had Video Guest: Wide Awake Films Shane Seley and Ed Leydecker of Wide Awake Films describe the process of making Civil War battle documentary videos. Blake's Review: I just couldn't get into this for the simple reason that it discusses technology and filmma... |
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