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Forum: Mason Dixon Tavern Topic: Getting Frustrated with HPS tactics |
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Posted: Mon Sep 12, 2005 6:25 pm
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| I second General Gross's suggestion that units which are run through by routed units undergo a morale check rather than being automatically disrupted. That ought to apply even moreso to units adjacent to routing units. Some units I'm sure were shaken when regiments to their right or left gave way, b... |
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Forum: Mason Dixon Tavern Topic: Getting Frustrated with HPS tactics |
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Posted: Sun Sep 11, 2005 9:14 am
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| Gen Walter's complaint about a chain of command is a valid one, but it ought to be one that could be easily fixed. If batteries are attached to brigades, as was common, particularly early in the war, they ought to be in the brigade commander's chain of command. If they are in separate brigades or ba... |
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Forum: Mason Dixon Tavern Topic: Five eBay Civil War Book Listings |
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Posted: Wed Sep 07, 2005 4:56 pm
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Hi, Brett,
Wish I knew you wanted to sell the Virginia volume. Got the others awhile back, but the Virginia one was out of print. Now watch the Yankees run up the price on me! [V]
MG Mike Mihalik
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Forum: Mason Dixon Tavern Topic: Someone tell me what I got here |
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Posted: Tue Sep 06, 2005 4:33 pm
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Hi, Don,
Don't know how to take care of something like that, but I'll bet a
museum would know and be glad to advise you. Try the Nimitz Museum
in Fredricksburg, Texas if nothing is closer. They have a lot of
artifacts, although not that old.
MG Mike Mihalik
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Forum: Mason Dixon Tavern Topic: Getting Frustrated with HPS tactics |
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Posted: Tue Sep 06, 2005 11:42 am
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Hi, Ken,
Thanks for the Whitworth info. I was looking in parameter data for the
July 1-3 scenario and it wasn't there. When it comes to anything more
complicated than the online documentation, I confess to being basically illiterate.
MG Mike Mihalik
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Forum: Mason Dixon Tavern Topic: Getting Frustrated with HPS tactics |
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Posted: Tue Sep 06, 2005 8:00 am
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| <i>"I really don't see why the ACW games don't have this density modifier and the pass through rules."</i> I don't know what a pass through rule is, but Rich Walker just introduced a density rule to Shiloh. It isn't perfect, but it is a step in the right direction, IMHO. <i>I do not like multi-phase... |
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Forum: Mason Dixon Tavern Topic: Getting Frustrated with HPS tactics |
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Posted: Mon Sep 05, 2005 1:31 pm
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| With the change in the way casualties are figured under HPS, it shouldn't matter much if units fire individually or as a stack. The only difference should be different random numbers, which ought to even out the casualties for units firing individually. But you have to use the multiphase system, oth... |
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Forum: Mason Dixon Tavern Topic: Getting Frustrated with HPS tactics |
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Posted: Sun Sep 04, 2005 11:15 am
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| I fully agree with General Collins if he is playing the single phase, but not the multiphase. I think in the multiphase system, the balance is close to historical. My experience with multiphase is that defensive fire is against the closest target in a unit's line of sight. If it isn't, players alway... |
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Forum: Mason Dixon Tavern Topic: HPS Tournaments? |
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Posted: Wed Aug 31, 2005 5:36 am
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| General Lynn, I designed a couple of shorter GB scenarios for Tillercon that probably never got used. One is the Wagoner's Fight involving two divisions of Union cavalry against Stuart and a scratch force under Imboden. The other is a hypothetical rear guard action involving the Union VI Corps vs tw... |
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Forum: Mason Dixon Tavern Topic: Champion Hill: Decisive Battle for Vicksburg |
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Posted: Sat Aug 27, 2005 4:41 am
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| Hi, Brett, Just want to thank you for the comprehensive Civil War book reports you post from time to time. It sure looks like a lot of effort went into this report, and if I never read the book, I feel like I gained a better understanding of the Battle of Champion's Hill just from the report. Thanks... |
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Forum: Mason Dixon Tavern Topic: Melees ... Melees ... Melees |
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Posted: Fri Aug 26, 2005 6:24 pm
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| The only time I have seen the attacker suffer more casualties and win a melee in the HPS system is when one of the defenders had already been defeated and forced to retreat into the hex on a previous melee of the same melee phase. In fact, one time I forced a unit to retreat into a hex that containe... |
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Forum: Mason Dixon Tavern Topic: house rules |
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Posted: Fri Aug 26, 2005 5:57 pm
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| I think when I first joined the club, some standard house rules were posted somewhere, maybe VMI. One I recall was no scouting with leaders. Another was no blocking of lines of retreat with leaders or supply wagons. A third was that you couldn't retreat off the map. I think this last rule was specif... |
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Forum: Mason Dixon Tavern Topic: Night Combat vs Night Reconnaissance |
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Posted: Fri Aug 19, 2005 1:53 pm
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| To my knowledge, night attacks during the ACW were rare, and successful night attacks rarer still. The only ones I can think of are Culp's Hill, Cemetery Hill, and Wauhatchie, where Longstreet tried to evict Hooker from Lookout Valley. None of these attacks was successful. It was not unusual for fig... |
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Forum: Mason Dixon Tavern Topic: Campaign Play |
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Posted: Wed Aug 17, 2005 2:56 pm
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| I have played each of the three main Ozark campaigns, but the scenarios are all relatively small and, IMHO, tend to favor the Rebs over the long haul. Have played a couple of Corinth campaigns, but completed only one, and thatwas a draw after the third scenario. In another, my whole army routed at s... |
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Forum: Mason Dixon Tavern Topic: Updates for Peninsula, Corinth, and Ozark |
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Posted: Wed Aug 17, 2005 8:08 am
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| Hi, Drew, Thanks for the historical insight on the fortifications and abatis. It was the fortifications I was talking about when I brought up the point about not getting charged the movement points for going over an embankment uphill. You might have thought I meant entrenchment. The cost for going o... |
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