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Forum: Mason Dixon Tavern Topic: Most Overrated General of the War |
| Digglyda |
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Posted: Tue Jun 07, 2011 2:20 am
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Replies: 27
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| There is a factor involved in the careers and subsequent reputations of all the ACW Leaders that I feel deserves more acknowledgement: The ACW, just as with all "Civil" wars, sets Armies that are equipped, organised, trained and led in an almost identical way against each other. It can be ... |
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Forum: Mason Dixon Tavern Topic: Losing Leaders |
| Digglyda |
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Posted: Thu Jun 02, 2011 4:01 pm
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Replies: 18
Views: 23519
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| I used to expect to lose a significant number of Leaders during any average to large sized scenario. I wouldn't normally lose anything above Brigade level commanders but I would still lose enough of them to see a significant drop in the integrity of my Army command bonuses. Playing in ignorance desp... |
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Forum: Mason Dixon Tavern Topic: Largest, Single Casualty Fire Given or Taken? |
| Digglyda |
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Posted: Thu Jun 02, 2011 3:43 pm
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Replies: 6
Views: 7031
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| I'm very surprised you haven't seen many large hits in your games. My record, which I must adnit I do not expect to see beaten, was a 256 loss inflicted by my stack in a phased play defensive fire phase. Not sure which game it was on but it was only fairly recently. I seem to recall it was likely to... |
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Forum: Mason Dixon Tavern Topic: Losing Leaders |
| Digglyda |
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Posted: Wed Jun 01, 2011 1:39 am
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Replies: 18
Views: 23519
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| I've always thought it a shame that the Leaders don't feature more in the way of command benefits and at least some difference to effect when mounted or not mounted. Think Hancock at Gettysburg on Day 3: He got on his horse and stayed on it despite the acknowledged fact of there being an increased r... |
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Forum: Mason Dixon Tavern Topic: New Corinth files available from Old Banshee site |
| Digglyda |
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Posted: Mon May 23, 2011 2:43 pm
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Replies: 0
Views: 2971
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This is where it all began with HPS Civil War Battles Campaign Corinth.
The Old Banshee Team proudly present their latest release: A Graphics Package re-working the Leaders, Units & OOB's for the Corinth game.
Link to the Old Banshee team website: http://old-banshee.yolasite.com/ |
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Forum: Mason Dixon Tavern Topic: Union Army Honors Generals Mullins and Wilkes! |
| Digglyda |
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Posted: Sun May 15, 2011 4:37 am
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Replies: 6
Views: 7888
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| Thank-you gentlemen, thank-you. ( A single manly tear runs down his cheek to drop from his quivering jaw). High praise indeed to be awarded an honour such as this by such an esteemed organisation, I accept it very gratefully. I'm pleased that the teams work has proven to be so popular and I would li... |
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Forum: Mason Dixon Tavern Topic: Most Underappreciated Battle of the War |
| Digglyda |
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Posted: Mon May 09, 2011 1:10 pm
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Replies: 8
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| I feel it must be 1st Bull Run / Manassas. The ACW saw a whole load of command blunders but Robert Patterons failure to keep a grip on Johnston in the valley has real implications for the North, perhaps it even amounts to the single biggest error of the war? Patterson was an experienced soldier and ... |
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Forum: Mason Dixon Tavern Topic: "Redux" of Peninsula files available from Old Banshee site. |
| Digglyda |
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Posted: Sat Apr 30, 2011 1:01 pm
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Replies: 1
Views: 3400
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| The Old Banshee Team present the latest files available for download: A re-working of our previous release for HPS Peninsula featuring a number of improved Leader images and a different selection of Unit Cards. Worth a look for those of you that have installed any of our previous efforts. A link to ... |
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Forum: Mason Dixon Tavern Topic: Civil War Games and the Future of Wargames |
| Digglyda |
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Posted: Wed Mar 30, 2011 3:55 pm
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Replies: 29
Views: 35005
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| There just aren't enough people (young people) interested in History generally or the ACW in particular to expect any viable market for these type of games to continue on a large scale and in the long term, at least not in the connexion we would understand which is the excellence of these games in f... |
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Forum: Mason Dixon Tavern Topic: Firing by Stack versus Firing by Unit |
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Posted: Sun Jan 16, 2011 4:38 am
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Replies: 5
Views: 4661
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| Most (all?) of the HPS games are now patched so that the A.I handles both it's offensive & Defensive fire phases by Stack rather than indvidual Units. This change was implemented to speed up the pace of game play. Is there any widely held sentiment that the game benefits or suffers as a result o... |
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Forum: Mason Dixon Tavern Topic: Stack Firing |
| Digglyda |
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Posted: Sat Jan 08, 2011 6:26 am
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Replies: 12
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| Avoid Turn based games at all costs and return to the "purists" camp of Phased play. A junior Reb officer tempted me out into a Turn system game before Xmas and I regretted my lapse the moment contact was made. I'm surprised that you, being a Reb, remarked in such a negative opinion on tur... |
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Forum: Mason Dixon Tavern Topic: Worst Civil War Movie? |
| Digglyda |
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Posted: Fri Jan 07, 2011 12:44 pm
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Replies: 13
Views: 12912
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| Ride with the Devil "awful"?! :shock: Maybe you you saw a different film by that name to the one I saw? RwtD is excellent I thought. Tobey Maguire is ok in it and I thought the story was generally well told. I'd definitely add it to a DVD collection ...though maybe only if I picked up a ba... |
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Forum: Mason Dixon Tavern Topic: New Franklin files available from Old Banshee site |
| Digglyda |
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Posted: Fri Dec 03, 2010 4:39 pm
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Replies: 3
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| It's not easy being John Bell Hood. The desolate winter landscape of Tennessee in late 1864 would ruin anyone's mood. But take heart, let a splash of colour warm your campaign because... ... the latest effort by the Old Banshee team is completed and released: A complete Graphics package for HPS Fran... |
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Forum: Mason Dixon Tavern Topic: Knowing your enemy. |
| Digglyda |
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Posted: Sat Nov 27, 2010 3:47 am
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Replies: 5
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| A while ago someone made an observation about an aspect of the graphics Mod work completed recently by the Old Banshee team... It regarded the fact that the new graphics generally reduce the Artillery units to using a single generic Unit Card for all the guns Sections/Battery's regardless of the wea... |
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Forum: Wargame Design Studio (WDS) and John Tiller Software (JTS) Campaign Games Topic: "McGettysburg" 2x3 MP game teams required. |
| Digglyda |
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Posted: Thu Nov 18, 2010 5:43 pm
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Replies: 4
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Right, a rather slow response gentlemen ...which is a shame I must say, but we now have enough players to get things rolling with a 2 versus 2.
Room for an additional player on each team as the forces come into play. |
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