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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.22- What Happened at Ball's Bluff? |
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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.22- What Happened at Ball's Bluff? |
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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.22- What Happened at Ball's Bluff? |
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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.22- What Happened at Ball's Bluff? |
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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.22- What Happened at Ball's Bluff? |
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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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Forum: Mason Dixon Tavern Topic: CW Talk Radio -S.2-Ep.22- What Happened at Ball's Bluff? |
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Posted: Sun Nov 16, 2025 10:49 pm
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| EPISODE 2.17 - January 20, 2006 Sex and the Civil War Guest: Thomas Lowry, M.D. Unlike the soldiers themselves, author Thomas Lowry, MD, is happy to discuss The Story the Soldiers Wouldn't Tell: Sex in the Civil War. Blake's Review: You know... to write a book like this... you have to be both a doc... |
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Forum: Mason Dixon Tavern Topic: A cool idea (I think) |
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Posted: Sun Nov 16, 2025 12:17 am
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| Having played a few PBeM games now I have a great desire to review the battle from beginning to end with a God's eye view. If the program could somehow store the replays over time and then when the game concluded produce a continuous replay with no FOW from start to finish. To be able to see the eb... |
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Forum: Mason Dixon Tavern Topic: CW Talk Radio -S.2-Ep.22- What Happened at Ball's Bluff? |
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Posted: Sun Nov 16, 2025 12:12 am
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| EPISODE 2.16 - January 13, 2006 How Slavery Ended Guest: Michael Vorenberg Dr. Michael Vorenberg, author of Final Freedom: The Civil War, The Abolition of Slavery and the Thirteenth Amendment, analyzes the politics of the 13th Amendment. Blake's Review: This is an enlightening interview as I have o... |
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Forum: Mason Dixon Tavern Topic: CW Talk Radio -S.2-Ep.22- What Happened at Ball's Bluff? |
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Posted: Sat Nov 15, 2025 11:46 pm
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| The 6th Corps was in reserve just a mile or two to the rear behind the Round Tops. Had Meade needed them they could have arrived in short order to either counterattack Pickett's remnants (with all three generals down, and all the colonels, they could not have put up much of a fight) or take up a new... |
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Forum: Mason Dixon Tavern Topic: CW Talk Radio -S.2-Ep.22- What Happened at Ball's Bluff? |
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Posted: Sat Nov 15, 2025 3:51 pm
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| I think hypotheticals are fun and there's always room to change, or amend, your thinking if some new fact is introduced by someone else. If Pickett had broken the line, I think a rout of the Union was very likely. Routs are infectious and the ANV had other brigades nearby and ready to move up of to... |
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Forum: Mason Dixon Tavern Topic: CW Talk Radio -S.2-Ep.22- What Happened at Ball's Bluff? |
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Posted: Fri Nov 14, 2025 3:37 pm
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| I actually think Lee getting the ANV out of Pennsylvania and tying up the AotP on the Rappahannock in the second half of 1863 was some of his best work - no territory conceded really, hardly any losses, six months of time gained for the Confederacy. Agreed. Lee performed a miracle escaping from Pen... |
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