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 Forum: Mason Dixon Tavern   Topic: Column Assault

John Ferry
 Post subject: Re: Column Assault
Posted: Wed Dec 21, 2016 10:05 pm 

Replies: 26
Views: 7775
We have tinkered with house rules wherein units were not allowed to entrench (trenches) until May 7, when both armies got religion about fighting it out in the open field; and assault columns were allowed as of May 10, when Emory Upton demonstrated his technique for overrunning entrenched positions....

 Forum: Mason Dixon Tavern   Topic: Column Assault

John Ferry
 Post subject: Re: Column Assault
Posted: Sun Dec 18, 2016 7:50 pm 

Replies: 26
Views: 7775
To address the original question--again, since there seems to be no opinion on the specific situation--I will reserve the right in future to column melee any enemy unit of any type which is also in column. The original intent of the use of the column formation, by the makers of the game, was that wh...

 Forum: Mason Dixon Tavern   Topic: Column Assault

John Ferry
 Post subject: Re: Column Assault
Posted: Sat Dec 17, 2016 4:51 pm 

Replies: 26
Views: 7775
Well said, General Simms! (Use "chicanery" ten times in a sentence and it will be in your vocabulary for life!)
:)
Or so they say....

John Ferry
Commander
20th Corps
A/C

 Forum: Mason Dixon Tavern   Topic: 1390 turn Campaign Overland May-June 1864 Fixed Units etc

John Ferry
Posted: Sat Dec 17, 2016 1:45 pm 

Replies: 33
Views: 8775
When testing, the games under design never use passwords, mainly because many glitches in design can be corrected in an ongoing game if it is not encoded. Interesting premise about a game-master....
John Ferry
Overland co-designer

 Forum: Mason Dixon Tavern   Topic: Column Assault

John Ferry
 Post subject: Re: Column Assault
Posted: Sat Dec 17, 2016 1:37 pm 

Replies: 26
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Mike I agree with you about the column melee in general, and thanks for steering us back to the original question. Having cut my teeth on HPS while designing Overland, the question of column melee never came up among the testers in any way. It appears to have become embedded within the forum so deep...

 Forum: Mason Dixon Tavern   Topic: Column Assault

John Ferry
 Post subject: Column Assault
Posted: Thu Dec 15, 2016 5:57 pm 

Replies: 26
Views: 7775
Gents: Please consider this additional exception to the house rule for no assaults in column: If an infantry unit in column meets a artillery unit in column the infantry player should have the option to execute a hasty assault. Otherwise, the infantry has to stand there until the artillery unlimbers...

 Forum: Mason Dixon Tavern   Topic: 1390 turn Campaign Overland May-June 1864 Fixed Units etc

John Ferry
Posted: Wed Dec 14, 2016 11:19 am 

Replies: 33
Views: 8775
I also noted your suggestion for garrison units. Great idea! I was just thinking, if we had a bunch of objs stretching back to the Rapidan there would end up being a cat and mouse game where the rebs steal them back, and then the yanks have to return to kick them out. I think we'll see something in ...

 Forum: Mason Dixon Tavern   Topic: 1390 turn Campaign Overland May-June 1864 Fixed Units etc

John Ferry
Posted: Wed Dec 14, 2016 11:19 am 

Replies: 33
Views: 8775
I also noted your suggestion for garrison units. Great idea! I was just thinking, if we had a bunch of objs stretching back to the Rapidan there would end up being a cat and mouse game where the rebs steal them back, and then the yanks have to return to kick them out. I think we'll see something in ...

 Forum: Mason Dixon Tavern   Topic: 1390 turn Campaign Overland May-June 1864 Fixed Units etc

John Ferry
Posted: Wed Dec 14, 2016 11:00 am 

Replies: 33
Views: 8775
Gen Whitehead I suppose the reason you have had no takers so far on a mana a mano Overland is because nobody disagrees with you, especially moi, since I built the sucker. It is always, as Lee said, a matter of time. A person of exceptional tactical ability (not me, to be sure) would make for a highe...

 Forum: Mason Dixon Tavern   Topic: 1390 turn Campaign Overland May-June 1864 Fixed Units etc

John Ferry
Posted: Sat Dec 10, 2016 10:27 am 

Replies: 33
Views: 8775
Any such change is done at the home office. It is not something that I as the designer can modify. Requested changes to the engine, if they happen at all, take one or two years. Requests go thru Rich Hamilton at JTS support.

John Ferry
Overland co-designer.

 Forum: Mason Dixon Tavern   Topic: 1390 turn Campaign Overland May-June 1864 Fixed Units etc

John Ferry
Posted: Fri Dec 09, 2016 12:00 pm 

Replies: 33
Views: 8775
I would more than gladly entertain any general or specific suggestions to bring the Monster closer to the mark. One problem with the way objectives points are awarded is that there is no difference in points if you lose, say Spotsylvania, on May 8th, or if you held on to it until May 20, as historic...

 Forum: Mason Dixon Tavern   Topic: 1390 turn Campaign Overland May-June 1864 Fixed Units etc

John Ferry
Posted: Wed Dec 07, 2016 5:09 pm 

Replies: 33
Views: 8775
The AI would NEVER in a zillion years make a playable opponent in the campaign scenario. I doubt if you could even count on the AI to move selected units for you, as Chris mentioned. Don't know if an update would come out any time soon, but I will make some changes for the next one. Meantime, you ca...

 Forum: Mason Dixon Tavern   Topic: 1390 turn Campaign Overland May-June 1864 Fixed Units etc

John Ferry
Posted: Tue Dec 06, 2016 11:02 am 

Replies: 33
Views: 8775
Cam and y'all Here are the reasons things are set up the way they are: Johnston's Bde, of Early's Div near Hanover Junction, is a wholesale replacement for Johnston's Bde, originally in Rodes' Div. I placed them there to spare the player the tedium of bringing them allll the way up from Richmond. (T...

 Forum: Mason Dixon Tavern   Topic: Incoming

John Ferry
 Post subject: Re: Incoming
Posted: Sun Dec 04, 2016 1:59 pm 

Replies: 1
Views: 1097
"action of coming in," from in + coming. As a present participle adjective, from 1753. Of game, from 1892; transferred in World War I to artillery; as a warning cry of incoming shellfire, it seems to date to the U.S. war in Vietnam (1968). (Cut and pasted from Dictionary.com) You're right,...

 Forum: Mason Dixon Tavern   Topic: MP games

John Ferry
 Post subject: Re: MP games
Posted: Fri Dec 02, 2016 7:45 pm 

Replies: 4
Views: 1826
Chickamauga and Antietam come to mind. Folks usually shy away from Shiloh, but I think it would be very interesting with the right command arrangement.
John Ferry
Cdr 20th Corps
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