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Forum: Mason Dixon Tavern Topic: Needed Corrections to the HPS Games |
| Christian Hecht |
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Posted: Sun May 27, 2018 10:24 pm
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| I said it already, ballistics alone are not the only factor nor the decisive factor. The constellation you point out might let the modifier seem too high. But when we talk about smoothbore artillery rolling the cannonballs into the target it may very well be not high enough(think of Waterloo or Gett... |
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Forum: Mason Dixon Tavern Topic: New PDT weapon values. |
| Christian Hecht |
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Posted: Sun May 27, 2018 11:35 am
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Forum: Mason Dixon Tavern Topic: New PDT movement values? |
| Christian Hecht |
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Posted: Sun May 27, 2018 11:34 am
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| From a discussion about the movement of supply wagons I'm interested if these also get standardized like it's to be done with the weapons values? |
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Forum: Mason Dixon Tavern Topic: Needed Corrections to the HPS Games |
| Christian Hecht |
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Posted: Sun May 27, 2018 11:29 am
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| I see that the consensus is that Supply wagon travel is arbitrary and capricious. Up to the game designer, so be it. I've put a question up for this: http://www.wargame.ch/board/acwgc/viewtopic.php?f=4&t=20968 Regarding the -20 penalty for "uphill" shooting I have seen no argument oth... |
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Forum: Mason Dixon Tavern Topic: Needed Corrections to the HPS Games |
| Christian Hecht |
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Posted: Sat May 26, 2018 1:10 pm
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| MG Mihalik is very right here, it was always up to the designers to set the PDT values they thought should be used. So if one game has them at 1MP/hex and another at 2MP/hex it was surely a designer decision, but even if the games are from the same designer he may just have changed his mind about th... |
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Forum: Mason Dixon Tavern Topic: Needed Corrections to the HPS Games |
| Christian Hecht |
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Posted: Wed May 23, 2018 12:37 pm
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Maybe someone knows the historical performance of the supply wagons.
From the description it sounds too slow but is it really to slow? |
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Forum: Mason Dixon Tavern Topic: Needed Corrections to the HPS Games |
| Christian Hecht |
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Posted: Sun May 20, 2018 7:26 pm
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| As for the stream/creek, I suppose that this simulates that along them there were brushes, trees, etc. so that there are obstacles that hinder sight & fire. And do not forget the -10% is the effect on the fire value, that is not a question of pure accuracy but what of the fire dished out is rece... |
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Forum: Mason Dixon Tavern Topic: Civil War Logistics PDF |
| Christian Hecht |
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Posted: Thu May 03, 2018 9:56 pm
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| Interesting stuff, thanks. |
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Forum: WDS/JTS Campaign Petersburg Topic: Petersburg: Feedback and Fixes, post here |
| Christian Hecht |
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Posted: Fri Apr 27, 2018 2:23 pm
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| Worked a bit through the scenarios and found some minor things: 1. Scenario titles that can be confused Usually the scenario titles for variants/what-Ifs do at least differ by the addition of the Roman II, III, IV, etc, but some titles don't follow this path and should be corrected. The scenarios ar... |
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Forum: Mason Dixon Tavern Topic: New PDT weapon values. |
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Posted: Tue Apr 17, 2018 12:52 pm
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| 0.1 would mean not even a half casualty for a 6 gun battery. The lowest value currently used is 0.25 and that gives at least 1.125 casualties, I think that should be the bottom line. |
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Forum: Mason Dixon Tavern Topic: New PDT weapon values. |
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Posted: Tue Apr 17, 2018 12:04 pm
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| The researched ranges have no impact on the organization of the batteries, but it's up to the player how to employ them. Besides this there were also uniform batteries, likely more common in the Union but nonetheless. That rifled pieces were deployed side by side with smoothbores is no reason to som... |
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Forum: Mason Dixon Tavern Topic: New PDT weapon values. |
| Christian Hecht |
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Posted: Mon Apr 16, 2018 6:29 pm
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| OK here a collection of sources so far, I have collected them within a table file and it should open with the usual office suits like MS Office, OpenOffice, etc.. https://www103.zippyshare.com/v/ejcR5QDS/file.html If needed I can do a PDF. The ranges I found show that the ingame ranges for a lot pie... |
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Forum: Mason Dixon Tavern Topic: New PDT weapon values. |
| Christian Hecht |
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Posted: Thu Apr 12, 2018 10:52 am
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| Problem is that the maximum range is the only more is less solid value, "effective" is a word open to a wide range of interpretations. For that value to work we would have to make sure that the same "damage" is done to be comparable. Problem is that many sources simply say effect... |
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Forum: Mason Dixon Tavern Topic: New PDT weapon values. |
| Christian Hecht |
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Posted: Wed Apr 11, 2018 11:17 pm
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| As I checked what pieces are used in Petersburg I already saw that not few of them have a too short range. I'm currently looking through my sources and I hope you can delay the release of the final version some days, I'm surely done by Sunday. It would help if some info could be provided for some pi... |
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Forum: WDS/JTS Campaign Petersburg Topic: Petersburg: Feedback and Fixes, post here |
| Christian Hecht |
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Posted: Mon Apr 09, 2018 10:50 pm
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| Although I had pointed it out myself I think the strange 300 fire value in weapon slot l (Multiple Arms) was purposely set so. I found a unit in the "July 30 1864.oob" called "Mine" with just a single men using that weapon slot. That OOB is used only in the scenarios "034 Th... |
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