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Forum: Mason Dixon Tavern Topic: NEWBIE INFORMATION |
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Posted: Mon Nov 24, 2025 6:34 pm
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| Your fears have a different side to them. There are situations where you have to delay reinforcements because the opponent has overrun the entry hex in strength and if you bring them on board, they will be slaughtered even with the 5 (and more for a few scenarios) hex routing and the elimination of... |
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Forum: Mason Dixon Tavern Topic: NEWBIE INFORMATION |
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Posted: Mon Nov 24, 2025 6:32 pm
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| I would rather see that as a house rule , not a club rule. Also, it would only be an issue for a very few scenarios. I see it more as a command decision that enhances strategic thinking. Why couldn't riders be sent to inform a column that it would be unwise to advance at this time. Almost all scena... |
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Forum: Mason Dixon Tavern Topic: NEWBIE INFORMATION |
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Posted: Mon Nov 24, 2025 4:17 pm
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| I've 'slept on it' and woke up very worried that delaying reinforcements could unbalance many scenarios. Essentially, units are hidden 'beyond the edge of the world' and a large force can be built up that then emerges in the flank/rear of an opponent at a convenient time. The converse situation is w... |
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Forum: Mason Dixon Tavern Topic: NEWBIE INFORMATION |
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Posted: Mon Nov 24, 2025 10:10 am
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| FELLOW NEW TO WDS CIVIL WAR GAMERS, Going to start a thread here to share Learned info from game play please feel free to comment, correct, or add to this thread. 1. Reinforcements: When reinforcements arrive, you can delay the entry by hitting cancel. you can then enter them at a later date of you... |
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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 1:54 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 ne... |
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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 7:49 pm
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| There is no way in the world that Pickett, even if a miracle occurs, could have done more than held what he had gained at Cemetery Hill. Just for fun, I asked the A/I about it (I knew you will appreciate that) and it fully agreed: Even if the charge had achieved a breakthrough, the Union would have... |
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Forum: Mason Dixon Tavern Topic: New Cadet with US Army |
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Posted: Sat Nov 15, 2025 5:59 pm
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| The results are in for recorded plays 2022 to now. 1. Antietam - 312. 2. Gettysburg - 237. 3. Chickamauga - 190. 4. Shenandoah - 161. 5. Vicksburg - 132. 6. Shiloh - 106. 7. Overland - 95. 8. Forgotten - 91. 9. Chancellorsville - 78. 10. Ozark - 57. 11. Atlanta - 54. 12. Corinth - 52. 13. Peninsula ... |
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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 12:08 am
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| You two should just have a weekly debate as it would be the most interesting thing to read on the forums. If you state that Pickett breaks through the Union center but does not rout Meade then I don't really call that a victory for Lee. Thinking of our video game I would say that if Pickett takes C... |
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Forum: Mason Dixon Tavern Topic: New Cadet with US Army |
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Posted: Fri Nov 14, 2025 11:44 pm
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| The above is "slightly" misleading as some titles have been out much longer than others. Corinth for example was the first title, and it is over 20-25 years old. Albeit upgraded many times as have them all. Forgotten was the most recent title, maybe 2-3 years old. It might be more interes... |
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Forum: Mason Dixon Tavern Topic: New Cadet with US Army |
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Posted: Fri Nov 14, 2025 8:38 pm
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| Here's a correction to my earlier post regarding most played titles [I stupidly didn't check them all and used an old version of the DoR]. Here's the full list (according to the latest version of the DoR) with the count of recorded plays. 1. Gettysburg - 3,638. 2. Antietam - 2,038. 3. Corinth - 1,72... |
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Forum: Mason Dixon Tavern Topic: New Cadet with US Army |
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Posted: Fri Nov 14, 2025 5:05 pm
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Most Played Title: Gettysburg.
Next Most Played: Shiloh then Chickamauga.
Best for Newcomers (my opinion only): Shenandoah.
Least Played: Forgotten then Petersburg. |
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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 3:51 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. An army in retreat is a difficult thing. Stuart's... |
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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: Thu Nov 13, 2025 7:58 pm
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| If they'd won at Gettysburg then Union casualties would have been more severe. If broken on Day 3 there would have been plenty of time to follow through (no nighttime looming like Chancellorsville) and Lee may have been able to deal the devastating fatal blow he had long sought. The AotP would have ... |
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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: Thu Nov 13, 2025 4:48 pm
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| "If Lee wins at Gettysburg, what can he do? He is out of artillery ammunition and his supply line ... Do you see it happening differently?" Yes, I see it very differently. Lee had plenty of artillery ammunition ( https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=coo.31924077728255&seq=357&q1... |
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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: Thu Nov 13, 2025 12:38 am
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| Toward a New Civil War Paradigm The heading of that episode caught my attention. Agreed that invading Kentucky was a very bad idea. It would have been much better if they had remained neutral to leave open the possibility that some hothead in the Union would invade that State. I disagree about Gett... |
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