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Forum: Mason Dixon Tavern Topic: NEW WDS Gettysburg Scenarios Released! |
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Posted: Sun Dec 24, 2023 2:21 pm
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| Gentlemen, As promised a few months back, I have uploaded 25 NEW scenarios for WDS Gettysburg to the Club's Customized Scenarios Database. This link can be viewed here https://www.acwgc.net/customgames . All of these scenarios can easily be downloaded from the website. There is a help link on the d... |
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Forum: Mason Dixon Tavern Topic: Battlefield Trust - Apartments Next to Gettysburg 1st Day |
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Posted: Sat Dec 23, 2023 10:04 pm
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Just donated. Thanks for the update, Scott!
Hopefully this deal doesn't go through. But with so many threats these days to the battlefields anything is possible. Every time you turn around it is something. |
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Forum: Mason Dixon Tavern Topic: Civil War Collectible Trading Cards - 1961 |
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Posted: Sat Dec 23, 2023 2:43 pm
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| These Topps 1961 - 1962 Collectible Civil War cards are pretty epic in every way. Very colorful, brutally violent, and pretty fanciful and inappropriate. Not to mention about as historically accurate as a Hollywood movie. And, yet, I'd love to collect the whole set. :mrgreen: Someone here has to ha... |
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Forum: Mason Dixon Tavern Topic: Lincoln and His Generals |
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Posted: Fri Dec 22, 2023 1:37 pm
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| Is there no end to the amusing Lincoln stories? Probably not. Williams, Thomas Harry . Lincoln and His Generals (Vintage Civil War Library) (p. 11). Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group. Kindle Edition. Some of Lincoln’s appointments went to men who were leaders of important nationality groups like the... |
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Forum: Mason Dixon Tavern Topic: Controversial Questions |
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Posted: Fri Dec 22, 2023 1:28 pm
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Replies: 38
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| Here is another controversial opinion. Madden NFL 2024 has 53 different ratings for each player. Is this where we are headed in our games? I wouldn't think so. As Paul and Ash said, we control the generals. So rating them on their specific ability to launch "attacks during dusk turns over open... |
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Forum: Mason Dixon Tavern Topic: Controversial Questions |
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Posted: Thu Dec 21, 2023 2:54 pm
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| Here's my take. It is appropriate to give Lee B command rating. That has nothing to do with the decisions he made during the battle It has everything to do with his relationship with his corps commanders. You will note that both Ewell and Hill have command ratings of D. That means the best command ... |
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Forum: Mason Dixon Tavern Topic: Controversial Questions |
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Posted: Thu Dec 21, 2023 9:54 am
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| I think we have established morale and rallying are the only things affected by leader ratings. All concede the point. But I think the ratings are far more complex than simply, "could Lee rally his men and keep them organized?" If so, then yes, he is an "A" general. But so is Mc... |
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Forum: Mason Dixon Tavern Topic: Controversial Questions |
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Posted: Wed Dec 20, 2023 6:15 pm
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| Having followed this debate most closely, my only observation is..........I refuse to be drawn into it :roll: :lol: :lol: They is fun, ain't they! https://tse3.mm.bing.net/th/id/OIP.R6X-3xPFCUUn74fDWqPKfwAAAA?rs=1&pid=ImgDetMain I will let Paul get in the last shots because I don't think he wil... |
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Forum: Mason Dixon Tavern Topic: Controversial Questions |
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Posted: Wed Dec 20, 2023 5:13 pm
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| As I said above, "the ratings in the game are related to very specific things". In terms of those specific things Lee's ability and application never wavered. Consequently, he should have very high ratings for 'Leadership' and 'Command'. But, Paul, in another thread you wrote, "The '... |
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Forum: Mason Dixon Tavern Topic: Controversial Questions |
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Posted: Mon Dec 18, 2023 8:26 pm
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| I think the ratings should remain unchanged. Command Rating This rating is essentially used to determine if Disrupted units become un-Disrupted that turn. I do not see that Lee ever lessened in this respect, either personally or in his ability to influence his subordinates in that regard. Lee had h... |
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Forum: Mason Dixon Tavern Topic: Controversial Questions |
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Posted: Mon Dec 18, 2023 10:42 am
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| Concerning Lee at Gettysburg - is he overrated with a Command rating of B? His command performance at Gettysburg was arguably his worst. Does he deserve a "B" or some other grade? Second, if the Battle of Gettysburg is refought by the ANV and the AotP 100 times, how many times does the Ao... |
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Forum: Mason Dixon Tavern Topic: Could A/I Consistently Defeat Human Players? |
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Posted: Sun Dec 17, 2023 2:25 am
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Replies: 10
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| "There are over 9 million variations after just 3 moves each, 288 billion different possible positions after 4 moves each, and 318,000,000,000 ways to play just the first 4 moves. In a whole Chess game, there are more possible iterations of chess games than there are atoms in the observable un... |
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Forum: Mason Dixon Tavern Topic: Could A/I Consistently Defeat Human Players? |
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Posted: Fri Dec 15, 2023 9:44 pm
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Replies: 10
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| With the recent advances in A/I programs (not in our games of course, lol), do you think it is possible for someone to design a program to take into consideration all of the movements, variables, and decisions that we make each turn, and then use all that to defeat us with regularity in these games... |
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Forum: Mason Dixon Tavern Topic: Former club member thinking about getting back into the game |
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Posted: Fri Dec 15, 2023 1:01 pm
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| https://blakeacwgc.wixsite.com/trainingacademy/acwgc-201 You may be thinking of this article by Kennon Whitehead from long ago. It could stand with an update but is still an excellent summary. Be forewarned, if you are asking which ones to use, you will be engulfed with two-bit opinions :mrgreen: |
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Forum: Mason Dixon Tavern Topic: Army of Tennessee or the Army of the Potomac |
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Posted: Fri Dec 08, 2023 12:35 pm
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| Can Robert E. Lee find the equivalents of Longstreet, Stuart, and Jackson in the west? Here's a fun game - 1864 in Georgia - Lee commands the AoT - who are his three CCs and cavalry leader? CAVALRY Forrest was a great raider but not a scout like Stuart. Lee could utilize Forrest like he did Mosby or... |
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