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Forum: Mason Dixon Tavern Topic: CW Talk Radio -S.2-Ep.8- Causes Lost and Won |
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Posted: Mon Nov 03, 2025 11:54 pm
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| EPISODE 2.09 - October 28, 2005 Causes Lost and Won Guest: Gary Gallagher After writing or editing more than thirty books on the war, University of Virginia history professor Gary W. Gallagher has become one of the leading scholars in the field. Hear his views on why the South lost, how battlefield... |
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Forum: Mason Dixon Tavern Topic: Peninsula |
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Posted: Sat Nov 01, 2025 8:36 pm
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| https://armyhistory.org/mine-warfare-in-the-civil-war/ Good article on mine usage. Much more common than I thought. In response to the mines, Major General George B. McClellan, who also had been an American observer of the Crimean War, vowed to “make the prisoners remove [the mines] at their own pe... |
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Forum: Mason Dixon Tavern Topic: Peninsula |
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Posted: Sat Nov 01, 2025 3:51 pm
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Quaama wrote: Any such thing would probably be assisted by a house rule to prohibit expendable units being used as mine clearers.
The Federals used Confederate prisoners as mine clearers on the Peninsula, lol. I mean, hey, better them than me, right? |
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Forum: Mason Dixon Tavern Topic: CW Talk Radio -S.2-Ep.8- Causes Lost and Won |
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Posted: Fri Oct 31, 2025 2:29 pm
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| EPISODE 2.08 - October 21, 2005 Blogging the Civil War Guest: Dimitri Rotov One way that the internet has revolutionized communication is by allowing anyone to publish his or her thoughts to an unlimited audience through a weblog. Dimitri Rogov's blog, Civil War Bookshelf, is a model of provocative... |
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Forum: Mason Dixon Tavern Topic: Peninsula |
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Posted: Fri Oct 31, 2025 2:14 pm
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| I can see all three of those things being incorporated in some weird way. It will never happen but it theoretically could. Engineer units could place mines (same tech as water mines except on land) which would inflict anywhere from 0% to 1% losses on an enemy unit which triggers them (and a little f... |
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Forum: Mason Dixon Tavern Topic: I’m Officially Old |
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Posted: Fri Oct 31, 2025 1:49 pm
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I fell asleep watching a turn replay. I woke up five minutes later after it was over.
Pretty soon I’m going to need a bathroom break halfway through moving my troops, lol. (I laugh now but in ten years who knows?) |
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Forum: Mason Dixon Tavern Topic: CW Talk Radio -S.2-Ep.8- Causes Lost and Won |
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Posted: Wed Oct 29, 2025 8:28 pm
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| EPISODE 2.07 - October 14, 2005 The Dark Side of the War Guest: Lonnie Speer Hostages taken and killed; civilians murdered to terrorize others; military prisoners subject to abuse... not in the 21st century Middle East, but in the United States, 1861-1865. Lonnie Speer, author of Portals to Hell: M... |
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Forum: Mason Dixon Tavern Topic: Campaign or Single Game |
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Posted: Wed Oct 29, 2025 5:33 pm
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| Everyone should do a campaign series at least once to give it a shot. It’s not for everyone but it might be for you. Only one way to find out! The biggest oddity is the lack of PBEM encryption which is a big issue for some people but not for others. |
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Forum: Mason Dixon Tavern Topic: Fatigue Recovery |
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Posted: Tue Oct 28, 2025 8:34 am
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| It is an interesting question though. It's not that important or game-changing but it is a head-scratcher. Troops fired upon do have to "roll the die" and that might be considered as movement in some way. If the loss was 1 it would be considered a "non-resting turn." But if the r... |
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Forum: Mason Dixon Tavern Topic: Gen. Cleburne Rises Again |
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Posted: Mon Oct 27, 2025 11:58 am
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| My wife unexpectedly came home with a puppy last week :shock: Obviously, we are keeping the puppy (much to the chagrin of our other dog!). But the price is steep for the wife. I've been waiting for an excuse to get my General Cleburne at Franklin painting into the living room above the fireplace fo... |
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Forum: Mason Dixon Tavern Topic: CW Talk Radio -S.2-Ep.8- Causes Lost and Won |
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Posted: Mon Oct 27, 2025 8:25 am
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| EPISODE 2.06 - October 7, 2005 This Grand Havoc of Battle Guest: Kenneth Noe Few Civil War battles had more impact, and yet were more quickly forgotten, than Perryville. Kenneth Noe, author of Perryville: This Grand Havoc of Battle, details the campaign and battle, and discusses why its importance ... |
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Forum: Mason Dixon Tavern Topic: CW Talk Radio -S.2-Ep.8- Causes Lost and Won |
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Posted: Fri Oct 24, 2025 10:35 pm
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| EPISODE 2.05 - September 30, 2005 History in 32 Pages Guest: Karen Winnick As an artistic format, the 32-page picture book looks simple, but using it to bring history to children is a challenge. Karen B. Winnick, author of Mr. Lincoln's Whiskers and Cassie's Sweet Berry Pie, both set in the Civil W... |
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Forum: Mason Dixon Tavern Topic: CW Talk Radio -S.2-Ep.8- Causes Lost and Won |
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Posted: Tue Oct 21, 2025 10:29 pm
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| EPISODE 2.04 - September 23, 2005 One, Two, Many Gettysburgs Guest: Thomas Desjardin Living in Gettysburg, historian Thomas Desjardin discovered that many of the most well-known stories of the battle are badly distorted versions of the original events. In These Honored Dead: How the Story of Gettys... |
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Forum: Mason Dixon Tavern Topic: Does a Better A/I System Mean the End of the ACWGC? |
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Posted: Mon Oct 20, 2025 10:39 pm
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| Matt Clausen with the excellent response! I thought about it only from a tactical me vs the computer standpoint but you brought up other ideas which made me rethink it all. I think the AI could potentially be used to improve gameplay experience in the ways you mentioned. What if the AI were programm... |
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Forum: Mason Dixon Tavern Topic: CW Talk Radio -S.2-Ep.8- Causes Lost and Won |
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Posted: Fri Oct 17, 2025 1:20 pm
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| EPISODE 2.03 - September 09, 2005 The Last Port Guest: Chris Fonvielle, Jr Did the blockade make a difference? Why did Union forces spend so much effort to take Wilmington, N.C., in the final year of the war? Wilmington native and UNC-Wilmington professor Chris Fonvielle, author of The Wilmington C... |
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