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Forum: Great War Movies and Series Topic: 50 Best American War Movies |
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Posted: Tue Apr 15, 2025 12:15 am
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| So, what is an American war movie? To qualify, the film had to have an IMDb user score and Metascore, be American-made, and deal explicitly with the United State's involvement in a war. In my mind Bridge on the River Kwai and A Bridge too Far are movies about the British War experience. I visited t... |
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Forum: Great War Movies and Series Topic: 50 Best American War Movies |
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Posted: Mon Apr 14, 2025 10:07 pm
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| I don't get it. What defines 'Amercian war movie'? I was annoyed to see that two of my favourites don't even appear, The Bridge on the River Kwai and A Bridge Too Far . Both include American soldiers and movie stars and both have high ratings from IMDb. It can't be the setting as a number of the mov... |
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Forum: Mason Dixon Tavern Topic: Version 4.05.3 |
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Posted: Mon Apr 07, 2025 3:30 pm
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| I suggest we have had this discussion previously and it did not end well, as I recall. Therefore as Blake says, let us eat donuts instead, and drink coffee of course too, and let all be right in the world :shock: The last time artillery stacking was raised as a topic was almost five years ago in Ju... |
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Forum: Mason Dixon Tavern Topic: Version 4.05.3 |
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Posted: Sat Apr 05, 2025 4:50 pm
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| I like the number 12 a lot. It is easily divisible by 4 or 6 which are the normal battery sizes of the two sides. I can't prove it but I bet you dollars to donuts that was a factor in the decision. As Robert Frost said, if they chose 8 or 10 then the USA side would be at a disadvantage in most scen... |
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Forum: Mason Dixon Tavern Topic: Version 4.05.3 |
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Posted: Sat Apr 05, 2025 3:05 pm
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| Having 8 as a "hard" number -- historically correct or not -- would work against the 6-gun Union batteries. The CSA could stack 8 with their organizationally smaller units. Don't know if this was part of WDS thinking, but to be "fair" would require reworking Union OOBs. Their ch... |
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Forum: Mason Dixon Tavern Topic: Version 4.05.3 |
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Posted: Fri Apr 04, 2025 11:06 pm
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| I tested it out a bit more. The stacking limit definitely works. Artillery attacked in melees doesn't exactly align with Manual specifications. The Manual says: "Each defending Artillery gun counts as one third Stacking Point (this depends on Parameter Data Strength Point setting but would norm... |
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Forum: Mason Dixon Tavern Topic: Version 4.05.3 |
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Posted: Fri Apr 04, 2025 6:47 pm
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Sorry, there's a slight delay. The artillery change seems to work for stacking but not melees.
Further details to MDT later. |
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Forum: Mason Dixon Tavern Topic: Version 4.05.3 |
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Posted: Fri Apr 04, 2025 6:18 pm
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| Without experimenting too much with it, just on paper, I really like the change. You could stack 700 men with 6 guns in the previous versions in one hex. That hex is unconquerable unless the men rout. Now, you can only stack 520 men and 6 guns in a single hex. Ignoring a whole bunch of variables...... |
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Forum: Mason Dixon Tavern Topic: Version 4.05.3 |
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Posted: Fri Apr 04, 2025 2:40 pm
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| A new update is out. The big change is that guns now have a maximum stacking limit of 12 guns per hex. A good improvement, although still not historically accurate. The new User Manual shows how this was achieved: "When a hex contains guns, then each gun counts as 80 men for the purpose of stac... |
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Forum: Mason Dixon Tavern Topic: The state of gaming from my view |
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Posted: Tue Mar 25, 2025 6:03 pm
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| 1. I've found that it is rare for my battles to go the full distance. It is often obvious well before the time limit which side has won. When I realise I'm in a position where I cannot overcome a Major Defeat result I concede the game and my opponents often do the same. I am grateful for that in the... |
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Forum: Mason Dixon Tavern Topic: Talonsoft Chickamauga |
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Posted: Wed Mar 12, 2025 9:00 pm
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Replies: 8
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| The smaller box was "sealed" (or was until I opened it) and the original paperwork is inside along with the sealed CD and warranty info and stuff. Both boxes that I have (both large and small) appear to be legit Talonsoft stuff so I can't figure out why they are different sizes. I loved o... |
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Forum: Mason Dixon Tavern Topic: Talonsoft Chickamauga |
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Posted: Wed Mar 12, 2025 8:18 pm
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| That game was the last Battleground released and it was different to all the others that proceeded it. It was only made available via mail-order and not sent to shops. I see from your Talonsoft Collection post earlier that the Chickamauga box shown is smaller than the other. Is that the smaller one ... |
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Forum: Clump of Trees Forum Topic: War Horse Medal for Lt. Gen. Swanson |
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Posted: Sat Mar 01, 2025 2:58 pm
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| A nice award and congratulations but I have received the War Horse Medal as well. On second thought, I think that mine was the Pack Mule Medal. Sorry for the intrusion. A round for everybody so as to excuse my intrusion. I am pleased to advise that even you made a small contribution to my receipt o... |
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Forum: Clump of Trees Forum Topic: War Horse Medal for Lt. Gen. Swanson |
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Posted: Thu Feb 27, 2025 11:24 pm
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| I thank you kindly for this award. I am very pleased to be one of only seven who have ever received it. A lot of Yankees needed to fall to my sword to achieve it. It shall hold a special place alongside some of my other relatively rare ones: Robert E. Lee Medal (only five of us being awarded it unde... |
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Forum: Mason Dixon Tavern Topic: 3d Maps (hand drawn) |
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Posted: Sun Feb 23, 2025 1:39 am
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| 2D for me, almost exclusively. I think the only time I go into 3D is to check where breastworks are already built (sometimes difficult to see in a busy area of the map). I also find the colours in 3D confusing. Mainly though I think I stick with 2D because that's what I've been used to for over fort... |
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