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Forum: American Civil War Topic: Not a book, but probably still belongs here... |
| krmiller_usa |
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Posted: Wed Mar 11, 2026 7:36 am
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If it's the one they show at the battlefield center I saw it about 25 years or so ago when we vacationed in the Shenandoah.
Spent a week at Massanutten and got to visit most of the battlefield areas in the valley. |
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Forum: Mason Dixon Tavern Topic: How Does The System Choose Replacement Leaders? |
| krmiller_usa |
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Posted: Tue Feb 03, 2026 9:44 am
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| Gen. Simms, This has never been explained so I ran a quick test in Gettysburg. This wasn't an exhaustive test just ran each test a couple times but here is what I found. I had Lee and Meade in hexes by themselves with an enemy unit next to them. First I had Longstreet, Hill, Ewell and Stuart in the ... |
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Forum: Mason Dixon Tavern Topic: Quick Gaming Tips |
| krmiller_usa |
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Posted: Sat Jan 31, 2026 8:53 am
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| How about the officers that aren't designated as commanders, such as Grant in the Overland Campaign or the officers who are not designated as brigade, division, corps, or army commanders? They are valuable for stacking for morale check purposes. But do they also have a command range? A circumstance... |
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Forum: Mason Dixon Tavern Topic: Quick Gaming Tips |
| krmiller_usa |
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Posted: Fri Jan 30, 2026 8:31 am
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| Mostly good information, you do want to keep your commands together. However being in Command Range has no effect on Morale Checks, only being stacked with any officer does that. Being Out of Command Range does make recovery from Disruption less likely as units use 1 as a base when trying to recover... |
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Forum: Mason Dixon Tavern Topic: WDS Artillery Error |
| krmiller_usa |
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Posted: Fri Jan 16, 2026 10:50 am
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| My thoughts on the changes to Gun Losses, the User Manuals states both Fire and Melee use the same Combat Results process for determining # men lost. The difference being that Fire uses the Adjusted Fire Value and Melee uses the adjusted strength of the opposing side. Regarding the increase in Gun L... |
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Forum: The Cartography Office and Scenario Center Topic: Engineering Site Updated |
| krmiller_usa |
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Posted: Thu Jan 01, 2026 8:52 am
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Replies: 5
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The ACWGC Engineering Department webpages has returned to the old domain
https://www.acwgc-engineering.com/
I have notified Scott Ludwig about the change and the Links page should be updated with the new domain name in the near future. |
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Forum: Mason Dixon Tavern Topic: File Name Question |
| krmiller_usa |
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Posted: Fri Dec 19, 2025 8:13 am
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| I had an opponent who complained of this problem. If you Google why does windows add a number to a filename when I attempt to download the same file again you get Why it happens: File System Limitation: A folder can't contain two files with the exact same name; one would replace the other. Browser P... |
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Forum: The Cartography Office and Scenario Center Topic: Engineering Site Updated |
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Posted: Mon Dec 08, 2025 9:25 am
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| The site was moved several years ago when I took over the work of updating the Union Army webpages. The site is currently at https://acwgcunionarmy.com/acwgc-engineering/index.html Due to other commitments I will be not be continuing the work on the Union webpages. I have been maintaining webpages f... |
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Forum: Mason Dixon Tavern Topic: Avalon Hill and the General |
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Posted: Thu Nov 27, 2025 9:55 am
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Vol 13/3, my first post for pbm opponent.
How I met my friend Dave, who lived about 30 minutes from me.
We've been playing wargames, board, miniature and pc for 49 years now. |
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Forum: Mason Dixon Tavern Topic: 250th Birthday of the Marine Corps |
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Posted: Mon Nov 10, 2025 11:38 am
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To all my Marine brothers in the ACWGC,
Happy 250th Birthday
We were here before there was a United States.
Semper Fi
Ken Miller
Sergeant (E5)
1970-73 |
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Forum: Mason Dixon Tavern Topic: I’m Officially Old |
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Posted: Fri Nov 07, 2025 9:15 am
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I learned to nap standing up in Boot Camp. Came in handy for those Friday afternoon parades. Take a nap while the speeches were made then wake up when the pass in review command was given.  |
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Forum: Mason Dixon Tavern Topic: Campaign or Single Game |
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Posted: Wed Oct 29, 2025 7:52 am
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| This is a matter of personal preference. Some people are gamers, they want to know everything in advance so they can plan their game to maximize their chance of winning. Others prefer to play with limited knowledge preferring to develop their strategy to meet the conditions. Personally I like the ca... |
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Forum: Mason Dixon Tavern Topic: Memory Test |
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Posted: Tue Oct 21, 2025 7:02 am
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| You have to remember BGG was the second game in the BG series and the first ACW game and came out in 1995. I would guess several of the designers had played the Richard Berg ACW boardgames. One of the reasons I bought BGG was it appeared to be similar to Berg's TSS, Bloody Shiloh and Gleam of Bayone... |
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Forum: Mason Dixon Tavern Topic: Unattached |
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Posted: Fri Oct 17, 2025 8:17 am
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| Gentlemen, I'm playing Antietam's First Bull Run scenario 003 v.1 and the scenario starts off with some unattached regiment troops. Is there a way to assign/attach these troops to a brigade or division? I thought I read somewhere that this is possible, but I am thinking that it doesn't apply to thi... |
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Forum: Mason Dixon Tavern Topic: Question about club rules |
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Posted: Fri Oct 17, 2025 8:05 am
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| Column Melee House Rules If I had to guess, and this might be confirmed by some old timers like Ned Simms, DW Mallory, or Mark Nelms, but I bet that when the HPS version of the games was released that many people played the game in Turns. This is poorly named, I know! But in "Turns" each ... |
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