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Forum: Mason Dixon Tavern Topic: Campaign Play |
| KWhitehead |
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Posted: Wed Aug 17, 2005 2:01 pm
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Replies: 16
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| I like the Campaign play in Gettysburg and Pennisula but the time commitment is a problem. If your opponent can't pretty consistently turn around 2-3 turns a week it is going to be difficult to ever reach the end. Also, as bad decisions are made resulting in significant scenario losses there is a te... |
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Forum: Mason Dixon Tavern Topic: Promotion D. H. Smith |
| KWhitehead |
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Posted: Wed Aug 17, 2005 1:11 am
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Replies: 9
Views: 10177
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Congratulations Major Smith on your promotion and be sure to damage those people up north all that you can.
BG. Kennon Whitehead
Chatham Grays
III Corps, AoM (CSA) |
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Forum: Mason Dixon Tavern Topic: Playablility vs. historic accuracy |
| KWhitehead |
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Posted: Fri Aug 12, 2005 1:28 am
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Replies: 59
Views: 67994
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| I still favor as the "best fix" is to change the engine to use artillery ammo on a per gun bases and deploy all batteries in sections since this was the way artillery was deployed in the CW. The one gun - one ammo would solve most of the problems with ammo useage caused by small sections except for ... |
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Forum: Mason Dixon Tavern Topic: Playablility vs. historic accuracy |
| KWhitehead |
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Posted: Thu Aug 11, 2005 11:06 am
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Replies: 59
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| My feeling is the problem isn't with the battery composition but with the game engine. If how ammo is used, crew casualties inflicted, and gun command control aren't changed, then the section size needs to be standardized to two guns to compensate. First, the grouping of all guns into a battery repr... |
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Forum: Mason Dixon Tavern Topic: surrounding tactics |
| KWhitehead |
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Posted: Tue Aug 09, 2005 4:11 pm
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Replies: 12
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This is one I never thought of and isn't covered by the ACWGC House Rules as far as I can tell. It is also probably a good candidate for inclusion along with wagons and officers.
BG. Kennon Whitehead
Chatham Grays
III Corps, AoM (CSA) |
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Forum: Mason Dixon Tavern Topic: CHEAT! |
| KWhitehead |
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Posted: Sun Aug 07, 2005 1:10 pm
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Replies: 32
Views: 41454
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| Before we can propose any kind of rule for punishing cheaters, in my opnion at least, we must consider the problem of "can we really identify a cheater?" If the answer to this is "No" then we cannot consider a sanction. I don't consider having a lot of complaints a very good method. They can't be va... |
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Forum: Mason Dixon Tavern Topic: CHEAT! |
| KWhitehead |
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Posted: Sat Aug 06, 2005 9:27 am
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Replies: 32
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| I agree with Harold, the biggest punishment to the Cheater is he knows he didn't win the game. There is very little else that can be done to prove or disprove cheating since the primary method of cheating is to replay the phase/turn/etc until you like the result or use the replay to "scout" for trap... |
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Forum: Mason Dixon Tavern Topic: THE "ROUT" |
| KWhitehead |
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Posted: Thu Aug 04, 2005 11:15 am
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Replies: 15
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| Unfortunately, route is a catch all in these games for a whole lot of things. It represents the tendancy of troops seek cover when the fire gets to hot, withdraw to safer positions when an attack fails, and the real all out route of First Bull Run, etc. It's why I favor using Route Limiting because ... |
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Forum: Mason Dixon Tavern Topic: 1st HACW - Reports |
| KWhitehead |
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Posted: Mon Aug 01, 2005 3:06 pm
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Replies: 194
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| First Manassas CSA Battlefield Report 12 PM, July 21, 1861 The second half of the morning has seen the battle on the Union left above Blackburn Ford steadily increase in tempo as both sides pushed more and more troops into the contest and some 12-14,000 troops for each side contested the hill Richar... |
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Forum: Mason Dixon Tavern Topic: Turn -vs- Phase Play (Which do you prefer?) |
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Posted: Sun Jul 31, 2005 12:48 pm
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Replies: 19
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| I agree with Bill, the best way is avoid Turn based. There is no way to fix it to the satisfaction of both players. The best method I have seen is the NWC's idea of an "embedded melee phase" but I find it very awkward to play a game using. You can't play a game saying that both people should play us... |
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Forum: Mason Dixon Tavern Topic: Texas Club Member Locations |
| KWhitehead |
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Posted: Fri Jul 29, 2005 3:36 pm
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Replies: 28
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Looks like most of the pins are around Houston. Add mine at Missouri City.
BG. Kennon Whitehead
Chatham Grays
III Corps, AoM (CSA) |
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Forum: Mason Dixon Tavern Topic: Jess Norris HPS System? |
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Posted: Wed Jul 27, 2005 4:13 pm
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Replies: 20
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| <blockquote id="quote"><font size="3" face="book antiqua" id="quote">quote:<hr height="1" noshade id="quote"><i>Originally posted by Den McBride</i> <br />I'm very much a non-expert on this stuff and always marvel at how advanced these discussions can be. I have 2 questions: 1. On the subject of lim... |
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Forum: Mason Dixon Tavern Topic: Jess Norris HPS System? |
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Posted: Wed Jul 27, 2005 1:54 am
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Replies: 20
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| Zones of control are one of those game design widgets that allows a designer to simulate many factors that the game mechanics or scale don't allow to be directly implemented. All of which make it very difficult to elliminate. In modern combat it usually represents the range of the weapons as well as... |
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Forum: Mason Dixon Tavern Topic: 1st HACW - Reports |
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Posted: Tue Jul 26, 2005 3:35 pm
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Replies: 194
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| First Manassas CSA Battlefield Report 9 AM, July 21, 1861 The battle has now been in progress for four hours. Shortly before 7 AM Union troops advanced against our extreme left which was cover by just two small brigades and cavalry. A cavalry company tried to scout the area east of the woods on the ... |
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Forum: Mason Dixon Tavern Topic: What is FtW? |
| KWhitehead |
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Posted: Tue Jul 26, 2005 4:53 am
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Replies: 13
Views: 11821
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Just smuggle a note out of that prison letting us Rebs know where it is. While we are marching around Pennsylvania burning Pittsburg, Philadelphia and a few other Yankee infestations we could bust you out.[:D]
Gen. Whitehead
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