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Forum: Mason Dixon Tavern Topic: Does Gettysburg Matter? |
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Posted: Sun Oct 10, 2021 3:15 pm
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Replies: 18
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| Politics and responsibility aside, how can it be said with a straight face that the loss of over a 3rd of the ANV and the cream of its veteran field commanders without achieving any of the stated objectives of the invasion was not a decisive loss for the CSA? Was it a decisive loss? It was a loss, ... |
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Forum: Mason Dixon Tavern Topic: Does Gettysburg Matter? |
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Posted: Sat Oct 09, 2021 2:34 pm
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| Gents My take. Lee staked it all on a knockout blow, and bled the ANV white doing so. ANV at the height of its political and psychological advantage and cast it away due to the failures of Lee. Snip away at this and that as you will but those days proved the CSA would not win the war militarily wit... |
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Forum: Mason Dixon Tavern Topic: Wild West Challenge... 39, yes, sir. |
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Posted: Tue Oct 05, 2021 8:59 am
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Replies: 0
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| Of the 91 games in the Wild West Challenge we have 39 completed up to this point (43%). 39 being my favorite number I had to post this update. The Confederates have made a strong push over the past thirty days and now have taken the lead three games to two. But the Federals are within easy striking... |
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Forum: Mason Dixon Tavern Topic: Weirdest/Strangest/Funniest/Most memorable game event |
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Posted: Mon Oct 04, 2021 2:57 pm
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Replies: 5
Views: 3433
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Robert Frost wrote: Is this an insidious Confederate plot enabled in the game engine?
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Forum: Mason Dixon Tavern Topic: Just a Good Line |
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Posted: Thu Sep 30, 2021 9:42 am
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Replies: 2
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The men were “capable of two basic maneuvers: going forward in a state of disorder, or going backwards in a state of chaos.”
Not important who said it but probably a universal truth with raw recruits. |
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Forum: Mason Dixon Tavern Topic: Union Final Four Starting |
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Posted: Mon Sep 27, 2021 1:01 pm
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The Final Four Federals in the Last Man Standing Tournament are now all set.
(9) Dirk Gross vs. (20) Rick Trembley
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(7) Ralph Peterson vs. (19) Ed Lytwak
Best of luck! |
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Forum: Mason Dixon Tavern Topic: Loser's "Anonymous" Support Group |
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Posted: Sat Sep 25, 2021 4:24 pm
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Replies: 13
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| How does everyone deal with those inevitable scenarios where everything is going wrong and you have to just get your butt whooped for enough turns to where your opponent will finally show some mercy and offer to end the bloodshed? Besides the obvious answer of "Jack Daniels" what do you d... |
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Forum: Mason Dixon Tavern Topic: Confederate Final Four Starting! |
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Posted: Thu Sep 23, 2021 9:01 am
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The Final Four Confederates in the Last Man Standing Tournament are now all set.
(1) Nick Kunz vs. (29) Denny Holt
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(15) Paul Siragusa vs. (19) Giovanni Boffi
Best of luck!
The Federals are still waiting to kick off their final four. |
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Forum: Mason Dixon Tavern Topic: Wild West 1862 Challenge |
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Posted: Sat Sep 18, 2021 1:45 pm
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Replies: 9
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| After a few months we have had 29 of 91 games reach completion (32%). At this point it is an absolute dogfight with the Confederates having the lead in two scenarios and the Yankees in two scenarios. The fifth scenario is currently tied. The Confederate invincibility claims are starting to look a bi... |
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Forum: Mason Dixon Tavern Topic: Walking the Battlefield... why it matters. |
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Posted: Wed Sep 15, 2021 9:24 pm
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Replies: 7
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| Listening to Ed Bearss in an old interview he spoke of the importance of walking a battlefield to really understand it. He told a story from back in the 1960s when he was walking the Shiloh Battlefield for the first time with another former Marine discussing whether or not the Confederates could rea... |
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Forum: Mason Dixon Tavern Topic: Wargaming in a History Book?! |
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Posted: Mon Sep 13, 2021 1:10 pm
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Replies: 3
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| I was reading a bio on Napoleon and the author (Andrew Roberts) buried an interesting footnote in the back of his book. During the discussion of the Battle of Waterloo he stated that it was one of Napoleon's worst conducted battles and that crucial errors led to his defeat. Then he had a footnote (w... |
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Forum: Mason Dixon Tavern Topic: Civil War Reading |
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Posted: Sun Sep 12, 2021 7:57 pm
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Replies: 10
Views: 5619
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I remember the great maps from those books
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Forum: Mason Dixon Tavern Topic: Shiloh Voted Favorite Battle |
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Posted: Sun Sep 12, 2021 11:17 am
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Replies: 14
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Forum: Mason Dixon Tavern Topic: Civil War Reading |
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Posted: Thu Sep 09, 2021 9:02 am
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Replies: 10
Views: 5619
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| Castel's Decision in the West really is a great read. It really opened my eyes to the western theater and was the first time I remember connecting the dots that the war was lost in the west and not the east. Over the past thirty years I believe Civil War scholarship has really changed the traditiona... |
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Forum: Mason Dixon Tavern Topic: Shiloh Voted Favorite Battle |
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Posted: Sun Sep 05, 2021 2:09 pm
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Replies: 14
Views: 7228
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| The Battle of Shiloh defeated the Battle of Chickamauga to move to the finals. |
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