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Forum: Mason Dixon Tavern Topic: Ultimate General: Gettysburg |
| KWhitehead |
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Posted: Thu Dec 01, 2016 9:20 am
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| it plays better than Scourge of War...............I could not get the hang of SoW SoW suffers from a strangely implemented AI which can counter player orders. This wouldn't be so bad if there were some obvious logic to what it does but sometimes it looks almost random. Their newest game on Waterloo... |
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Forum: Mason Dixon Tavern Topic: Ultimate General: Gettysburg |
| KWhitehead |
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Posted: Tue Nov 29, 2016 5:07 pm
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No pause button?
Just have to click faster than the AI.
My problem in the past with these type games including SoW is they degenerate into mobs if not micromanaged. |
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Forum: Mason Dixon Tavern Topic: Ultimate General: Gettysburg |
| KWhitehead |
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Posted: Tue Nov 29, 2016 12:03 pm
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Anyone purchased this game off Steam?
Opinions of? |
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Forum: Mason Dixon Tavern Topic: This Business About Cavalry . . . |
| KWhitehead |
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Posted: Sun Oct 16, 2016 9:46 am
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| Kennon, you are completely correct in how you interpret the role of cavalry and the reduction of the God's Eye. And you were absolutely correct in identifying the key factor to make it all work: "the change would require cavalry to be broken up into smaller units." Such a change would cer... |
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Forum: Mason Dixon Tavern Topic: This Business About Cavalry . . . |
| KWhitehead |
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Posted: Sat Oct 15, 2016 9:11 am
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| Right now the "?" only shows up if the spotting unit is a wagon. BaB introduced LOS rules that put spotting down to less than 10 hexes and their hexes are smaller than HPS. Their LOS is also highly variable depending on Unit abilities as well as atmospheric conditions. They also included s... |
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Forum: Mason Dixon Tavern Topic: This Business About Cavalry . . . |
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Posted: Fri Oct 14, 2016 10:13 am
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| Lots of interesting points here. 70 hexes is exactly five miles in the game scale, and I agree it is an unrealistic distance for getting consistent sightings of the enemy, but there are instances of units being sighted at such distance. The outpost on Clark's Mtn, at the beginning of Overland, not ... |
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Forum: Mason Dixon Tavern Topic: This Business About Cavalry . . . |
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Posted: Thu Oct 13, 2016 9:10 am
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| Because HPS games are based on the activity that can take place over 20 minutes it will have some problems handling units like cavalry which had faster movement and actions than the time interval can simulate. So HPS rules are always a compromise. It also depends on which rule set you are using, Tur... |
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Forum: Mason Dixon Tavern Topic: Open Source User Developed Game |
| KWhitehead |
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Posted: Sat Sep 24, 2016 9:26 am
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Replies: 34
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| About your game: I am interested, but I have no time to contribute. And therein lies the problem. Going open source and letting anyone interested contribute by developing scenarios, graphics, discussion, testing, etc. only works if enough people are interested to spread the work load so only one or... |
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Forum: Mason Dixon Tavern Topic: Open Source User Developed Game |
| KWhitehead |
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Posted: Tue Sep 20, 2016 3:01 pm
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| And, that is also an indicator of the problem. This forum probably represents most of the people interested in PBEM Civil War games. I hope it musters more than 200. At one time it probably had over one thousand. That is why I posted here. To see how much interest would be shown. A half dozen people... |
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Forum: Mason Dixon Tavern Topic: Open Source User Developed Game |
| KWhitehead |
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Posted: Mon Sep 19, 2016 9:46 am
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| And, that is part of the problem. A Web Site with videos, screen shots, forums, etc. require something like a GoDaddy hosting plan and someone to set it up and administer it. I had set up such a web site but it was rapidly taking up all the time I had for the project and it wasn't even online yet. M... |
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Forum: Mason Dixon Tavern Topic: Open Source User Developed Game |
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Posted: Sun Sep 18, 2016 9:42 am
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| No. I am not seeing enough interest out there to justify spending any time on it. I may work on it some next year if I don't have anything more interesting to do. |
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Forum: Mason Dixon Tavern Topic: Open Source User Developed Game |
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Posted: Sat Sep 17, 2016 9:19 am
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| Yes, but Napoleonic small unit tactics need a quite different emphasis. I am not enough of a Napoleonic expert to do that but I am enough of one to know how poorly games simulate that period. The game is capable of putting units into a variety of column, line and mixed formations but appropriate tac... |
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Forum: Mason Dixon Tavern Topic: JTS - HPS updates |
| KWhitehead |
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Posted: Wed Jul 13, 2016 9:34 am
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Replies: 18
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| Any way to just provide proof of ownership of HPS version and get the JTS version with new serial number rather than do updates? |
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Forum: Mason Dixon Tavern Topic: Do Those Supply Wagons Carry Enough? |
| KWhitehead |
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Posted: Wed Jul 13, 2016 9:30 am
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| In Gettysburg 3 day scenarios even if using the ammo per gun optional rule you will always run out of artillery ammo by the third day and will probably use up all your wagon ammo. I never have checked to see how the ammo situation ends with the troops (how many low or out of ammo). Usually the runni... |
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Forum: Mason Dixon Tavern Topic: JTS - HPS updates |
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Posted: Sun Jul 10, 2016 10:25 am
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| HPS does seem to be dragging their feet on releasing though. . . It is more a matter of a shift in JTS policy; per Rich Hamilton on the Blitz (under a France '14 topic), JTS is not going to provide updated patches to HPS any longer, instead opting only to have the one version.). I know that I had a... |
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