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 Forum: Mason Dixon Tavern   Topic: Game engine improvements suggestions

Posted: Tue May 03, 2005 12:51 pm 

Replies: 20
Views: 18978


I guess I'm in the lone dissenter here regarding "on the move" LOS. Good thoughts posted and not without merit. However, I kind of like the current setup because it's a little more real although in an abstract sort of way. Sure, there's an arguement to be made concerning the frustration we all feel ...

 Forum: Mason Dixon Tavern   Topic: Game engine improvements suggestions

Posted: Sun May 01, 2005 8:15 am 

Replies: 20
Views: 18978


I agree with most of what you say. As nothing happens in a vacuum, the fly in the ointment with the cav sub units is the current ZOC rules as they effect enemy movement. Right now a 25 man cav unit can bring a whole 5000 man division on a road to a dead stop. In the HPS system a 1 man unit can do th...

 Forum: Mason Dixon Tavern   Topic: I would like to join an army.....

Posted: Mon Apr 04, 2005 9:59 am 

Replies: 14
Views: 13792


No Mark. You have it wrong. If this fella wants a challenge he needs to join the CSA. If he joins the USA he's going to find the competition pretty mediocre.

Gen. Doug Burke xx/AoC/USA

 Forum: Mason Dixon Tavern   Topic: design leap

Posted: Tue Mar 08, 2005 2:35 am 

Replies: 15
Views: 16858


By far the best simultanious movement game was the old V for Victory World at War series, a system Ken mentioned below. A system that used a larger scale but could be adapted to ACW Regiment combat. For those unfamiliar with it it went like this: -The first player gives orders to move, fire, retreat...

 Forum: Mason Dixon Tavern   Topic: Do your colleagues know?

Posted: Wed Feb 02, 2005 12:33 pm 

Replies: 19
Views: 19754


Yes. Everyone knew. Back in the '90's when my partner and I had 18 employees (I sold out in '99 and now it's just me working out of my house), initially 2 people were interested in gaming. We had space for an extra table and kept a game set up to play at lunch and occassionally for an evening after ...

 Forum: Mason Dixon Tavern   Topic: What to you do in real life??

Posted: Tue Feb 01, 2005 2:04 pm 

Replies: 86
Views: 289983


In real life I'm a General commanding a brigade in the Army of the Cumberland. For enjoyment I like to play a very realistic "real life/real time" game. My charactor is an architect living in Annapolis, MD. My charactor is self employed. He's an ornry old cuss that's generally a pain in the a**. He'...

 Forum: Mason Dixon Tavern   Topic: Franklin Oddity

Posted: Sun Jan 30, 2005 9:18 am 

Replies: 10
Views: 10509


I'm was finally glad to see it in Corinth. As an owner of horses for 17 years and veteran of 17 years of riding in Loudoun County (Virginia's Hunt Country), trust me, woods is a mess.....even light woods. And all I had was a shirt, helmut and pants. No Carbine, no bedroll, no sword to impede me. The...

 Forum: Mason Dixon Tavern   Topic: Alternative to embedded melee system

Posted: Tue Jan 25, 2005 12:59 pm 

Replies: 4
Views: 6092


Not sure what you mean by "a hex containing a unit that has already meleed". The problem is not so much hexes CONTAINING units, it's the hexes where a ZOC existed and then the ZOC is not there anymore because the parent unit has been shoved back in melee. It is very frustrating to have a flood of en...

 Forum: Mason Dixon Tavern   Topic: simulation/game

Posted: Sun Jan 16, 2005 1:02 pm 

Replies: 6
Views: 7866


I think I replied to another thread here about the first FOW experience I had. Way back in 1987 we set up two copies of the GBACW Pleasant Hill game on my ping pong table, each on either side of a divider. Since the game was at my house and it would go on for a few weeks (the group met once a week)I...

 Forum: Mason Dixon Tavern   Topic: Mozilla Firefox browser

Posted: Mon Jan 10, 2005 7:27 am 

Replies: 7
Views: 9023


I downloaded it a few months ago and use it occassionally. Of course I've never been an IE user. Been using Netscape since coming online in 1995. The two are very similar and have to be related in some way since as long as I can remember Netscape has had a folder called Mozilla relating to their mai...

 Forum: Mason Dixon Tavern   Topic: Weird Problem?

Posted: Sat Jan 08, 2005 6:34 am 

Replies: 8
Views: 9155


I first noticed that units occasionally didn't DF in a BGC game several years ago.

Gen. Doug Burke
XX/AoC/USA

 Forum: Mason Dixon Tavern   Topic: New trend in Computer Games

Posted: Tue Jan 04, 2005 12:25 pm 

Replies: 14
Views: 15915


Ah yes, the good ol' days. -I remember those Orgins all too well too Ken. Many's the hour I've spent in the Baltimore Convention Center. Maybe we brushed shoulders. -Games of everything from most SPI games to VG's Civil War (to this day one of my favorite games) set up on our dining room table for m...

 Forum: Mason Dixon Tavern   Topic: Tessier Game

Posted: Thu Dec 23, 2004 1:35 pm 

Replies: 7
Views: 9407


I too, along with Don and Robert would like to add my thanks for giving me a very enjoyable experience. When it was over I kinda missed my 18 month Saturday routine of doing the turn. Very interesting game which, as it turned out, looked like a grand version of Balls Bluff but two times over. Count ...

 Forum: Mason Dixon Tavern   Topic: First Game Purchase

Posted: Mon Dec 06, 2004 12:29 pm 

Replies: 12
Views: 14441


Yes, signing up with the CSA is definitely the way to go. If you went with the USA you would have found the opposition somewhat weak.

Welcome to the club.

Gen. Doug Burke
XX/AoC/USA

 Forum: Old Opponent finder   Topic: Need bluebellies at Longstreet's Other Boot

Posted: Fri Jul 02, 2004 1:04 am 

Replies: 1
Views: 2196


I'd be up for it. Send me a note. dburke2@ix.netcom.com

Lt. Gen. Doug Burke
XX/AoC/USA
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