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 Forum: Mason Dixon Tavern   Topic: Stacked vs Individual Unit Fire

Posted: Fri Jul 04, 2008 11:41 am 

Replies: 10
Views: 8570


<blockquote id="quote"><font size="3" face="book antiqua" id="quote">quote:<hr height="1" noshade id="quote"><i>Originally posted by Bill Peters</i> <br /> As has been said before - the golden loss number is 25 to invoke an automatic morale check. I try and get 25 losses on one unit before moving on...

 Forum: Mason Dixon Tavern   Topic: Gary Grigsby's War Between the States

Posted: Sun Jun 29, 2008 6:57 am 

Replies: 24
Views: 29397


Hi, Mark, Sounds like a fascinating game, but is it the Civil War? I have read all the AARs with great interest, and in every one it seems that the South plays the whole game on the strategic defensive. It seems that Lee's two invasions of the north would be suicidal. After getting burned with the A...

 Forum: Mason Dixon Tavern   Topic: Civil War Fiction

Posted: Wed Jun 25, 2008 4:29 pm 

Replies: 22
Views: 23147


Hi, Hank,

I tend to agree with your assessment of the book, but I suspect maybe that other fellow did the writing and Newt used his name to sell the book. Speaks to character rather than IQ, imho. Or lack thereof.

MG Mike Mihalik
1/III/AoMiss/CSA

 Forum: Mason Dixon Tavern   Topic: Artillery Capture/Spiking Rule

Posted: Tue Jun 24, 2008 10:54 am 

Replies: 10
Views: 9634


<blockquote id="quote"><font size="3" face="book antiqua" id="quote">quote:<hr height="1" noshade id="quote">I can't beleive the rule that once captured you can use them to fire against the owners without recrewing. Seems a little too influenced by Hollywood for me.<hr height="1" noshade id="quote">...

 Forum: Mason Dixon Tavern   Topic: Artillery Capture/Spiking Rule

Posted: Tue Jun 24, 2008 8:13 am 

Replies: 10
Views: 9634


Hi, Bill, Your recommendations have merit, and some have been discussed before, particularly the recommendation that the guns belong to the last side that occupied them. Unfortunately, a lot of times posting on this forum is like banging your head against a stone wall. Fortunately, Rich Walker will ...

 Forum: Mason Dixon Tavern   Topic: Antietam woes

Posted: Tue Jun 24, 2008 7:43 am 

Replies: 115
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It is hard to believe there are so many posts on this thread. Here is a quote from "The Long Arm of Lee", by Jennings Cropper Wise; <blockquote id="quote"><font size="3" face="book antiqua" id="quote">quote:<hr height="1" noshade id="quote">The actual losses of the Confederate Artillery in the (Mary...

 Forum: Mason Dixon Tavern   Topic: Artillery Capture/Spiking Rule

Posted: Sun Jun 22, 2008 12:06 pm 

Replies: 10
Views: 9634


Hi, Bill, Most of this has been discussed ad infinitum. You get full points if you capture the guns AND occupy them at the end of the scenario. Ditto spiked guns, only you get half points. The advantage of spiking guns is that you deny their use to your opponent during the scenario. In a campaign, c...

 Forum: Mason Dixon Tavern   Topic: Civil War Fiction

Posted: Sun Jun 22, 2008 11:56 am 

Replies: 22
Views: 23147


About forty years ago I read "The History of Rome Hanks", written in 1944. At the time I enjoyed it. Here is a review. The big guns of U.S. newspaper book reviewing greeted Rome Hanks last fort night with the most thunderous salvo that has welcomed a first novel since Gone With The Wind. It was a "s...

 Forum: Mason Dixon Tavern   Topic: Campaign Antietam - Pros, Cons, & Neo-Cons

Posted: Wed Jun 11, 2008 3:13 pm 

Replies: 10
Views: 9304


<blockquote id="quote"><font size="3" face="book antiqua" id="quote">quote:<hr height="1" noshade id="quote"><i>That said, who would ever want to go back to the old days of board gaming? Seemed like it would take hours to set up, then the area needed to game and be left to stand alone for some time....

 Forum: Mason Dixon Tavern   Topic: Military Service

Posted: Mon Jun 02, 2008 3:04 pm 

Replies: 124
Views: 113306


Geez, the Marines have already mustered and the anchor clankers are still getting out of the rack![:D]

MG Mike Mihalik
1/III/AoMiss/CSA

 Forum: Mason Dixon Tavern   Topic: Emplaced Guns Question

Posted: Mon Jun 02, 2008 2:58 pm 

Replies: 17
Views: 11879


During the Corinth battle the guns at Battery Robinette were turned completely around to help repel troops who had penetrated into the town. On the other hand, at Ft Macon, en barbette (on top of the wall) had tracks that allowed them to rotate in a 180 degree arc. Guns in casements had much more li...

 Forum: Mason Dixon Tavern   Topic: OPTIONAL RULES

Posted: Mon Jun 02, 2008 5:10 am 

Replies: 7
Views: 6283


Hi, Quality fire/melee modifier-yes, I believe elite troops were more efficient in their fire and melee. Higher fatigue recovery rate-While up to now I have used this, I have come to believe that the lower recovery rate is probably more realistic. Rout limiting-I have always used this, and I think f...

 Forum: Mason Dixon Tavern   Topic: Complaint HPS Gettysburg - Warrenton

Posted: Sat May 31, 2008 3:48 pm 

Replies: 3
Views: 4605


Hi, Haven't got that far in a Gettysburg campaign, but Doug Strickland put together a huge number of scenarios when he designed this game. There is no way all of them could have been adequately playtested. Some are pretty unbalanced, imho, such as 2nd Winchester, but that doesn't make it ahistorical...

 Forum: Mason Dixon Tavern   Topic: Grigsby's War Between the States AAR

Posted: Fri May 30, 2008 5:06 am 

Replies: 8
Views: 8073


Here is a link to a five-minute video introduction to Gary Grigsby's ACW game.

http://www.matrixgames.com/games/downloads.asp?gid=357

MG Mike Mihalik
1/III/AoMiss/CSA

 Forum: Mason Dixon Tavern   Topic: Pickett's charge scenario

Posted: Tue May 27, 2008 11:12 pm 

Replies: 3
Views: 4858


I could find only one Pickett's Charge scenario, 9 turns.

MG Mike Mihalik
1/III/AoMiss/CSA
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