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Forum: Mason Dixon Tavern Topic: Ammo, ammo, ammo! Much more ammo! |
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Posted: Fri Mar 16, 2007 12:37 am
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| I'm in the "more ammo" school. One of my favorite games in the Talonsoft series is "Antietam" and that game is completely ruined by the fact that the Rebels DO NOT HAVE ENOUGH AMMO! That game almost has a lock on it as the Union can just fire all day and the Rebels HAVE to conserve their fire or jus... |
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Forum: Mason Dixon Tavern Topic: Question about "Step Increment Losses" |
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Posted: Sun Mar 04, 2007 7:12 am
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| I am referring to the number of men in one of my units when they are hit. For example I may have a unit with only "9 men" left. The enemy fire phase comes on and the map may say "4" men hit and then the unit vanishes. What happened to the other "5" men then? I know with Fog of War on you can't tell ... |
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Forum: Mason Dixon Tavern Topic: Vicksburg Campaign |
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Posted: Fri Mar 02, 2007 1:16 am
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Echoing all of the comments above. "Vicksburg" as the Confederates is very dull fare indeed. Very unbalanced scenarios. Battles like "Raymond" where you have a brigade against a Corps!!!
Overall a bad choice for a disk in my opinion using the HPS system. |
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Forum: Mason Dixon Tavern Topic: Question about "Step Increment Losses" |
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Posted: Fri Mar 02, 2007 1:13 am
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| I have noticed during fire phases that the 'hit messages' on the map may say "3 men hit" or perhaps "6 men hit" and then the unit vanishes. But in some instances I have known in advance that the unit has more men than the "hit indicators" announce. Are the 'step losses' actually "10" men? How do we ... |
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Forum: Mason Dixon Tavern Topic: PROBLEM SENDING/RECEIVING ZIP FILES!!! |
| gcollins |
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Posted: Mon Jan 01, 2007 1:33 pm
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Replies: 6
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| I have done that Ernie. In fact I have been experimenting with this the whole day. Installed - de-installed numerous programs. Got rid of my virus program and got another one, ran Spybot everything. The only pattern I see is no zip files can be sent. My .cpf files are OK and .bte but not zip. Crazy.... |
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Forum: Mason Dixon Tavern Topic: PROBLEM SENDING/RECEIVING ZIP FILES!!! |
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Posted: Mon Jan 01, 2007 4:07 am
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| Hello All, and apologies to my opponents. For some strange reason I can no longer send or receive Zip files. I have taken the following steps to help locate what the problem could be. Disabled all virus software Disabled all setting for virus check in Thunderbird Mail - I tried sending myself a simp... |
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Forum: Mason Dixon Tavern Topic: Forge of Freedom |
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Posted: Wed Dec 20, 2006 12:04 pm
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Replies: 43
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| I realize that Gil R's post and some of his comments are directed at me. One of the reasons I replied to Mike, who started the topic, was because I had purchased the game, and of course a lot of us in this club want to have an idea of what this new game is all about. I had put in comments on the Mat... |
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Forum: Mason Dixon Tavern Topic: Forge of Freedom |
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Posted: Thu Dec 14, 2006 1:04 pm
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Replies: 43
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| My favourite strategic American Civil War game of all time was Victory Games "Civil War". Even when Avalon Hill released a primitive version of the game for the IBM PC I played it for hours - buggy as it was. Golly, I still remember the EGA graphics that were so bad they actually gave you a miniatur... |
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Forum: Mason Dixon Tavern Topic: Forge of Freedom |
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Posted: Sun Dec 10, 2006 1:15 am
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| Now that I have had it for over a week now I am really beginning to see it's faults. For one thing, the geography even for an area movement game is just terrible. The all important "Richmond" point is not even named, instead it is called "James River" and yet "Petersburg" IS named in a prominent pos... |
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Forum: Mason Dixon Tavern Topic: Forge of Freedom |
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Posted: Sat Dec 09, 2006 4:27 am
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| I purchased the digital download of the game and if I had known what I now know I would not have purchased it. In fact I'm thinking of selling my copy 'digital download' not withstanding. I don't like the 'area' movement for a Civil War game. The game is extremely detailed but in areas that I don't ... |
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Forum: Mason Dixon Tavern Topic: VICTORY POINTS FOR SUPPLIES IN VICKSBURG |
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Posted: Sat Nov 25, 2006 3:03 pm
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| My opponent and I are engaged in a Vicksburg Campaign and presently we are fighting the "Battle of Port Gibson". He has just captured the Confederate supply wagon which had 400 supplies on board. We noticed that this immediately garnered 400 points for Union. Is this in all of the HPS games? Or only... |
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Forum: Mason Dixon Tavern Topic: Old subject on game lock out. |
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Posted: Sat Nov 11, 2006 6:25 am
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| I have downloaded General Mullins Graphics and they look very fine. However, I'm still getting units that 'switch loyalties' in the Gettysburg Campaign. That is some Reb units show up with Union flags and vice versa. Same for Vicksburg Campaign. Anyone else encountering this? I had to go back to the... |
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Forum: Mason Dixon Tavern Topic: Is Shiloh a flawed Disk? |
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Posted: Sat Sep 30, 2006 1:26 am
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| I have played the Shiloh Campaign Disk through once, and am currently involved in another email game presently. I have also heard from club members that the same anomaly came up in their games. If this is so isn't this a rather serious flaw? At least to the point of making the final battle of Shiloh... |
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Forum: Mason Dixon Tavern Topic: Jim Gleason - Army of Potomac ? |
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Posted: Thu Aug 03, 2006 8:37 am
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Is anyone in contact with Jim Gleason? I have a Gettysburg campaign ongoing with him and I have not been able to contact him in over a month.
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Forum: Mason Dixon Tavern Topic: Looking for Michael Gjerde.... |
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Posted: Fri Jun 09, 2006 12:07 pm
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Replies: 2
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| I was playing a "Battle of Salem Church" with him for several months and his moves got slower and slower. I finally emailed him to end the match. His personal life is getting a little full of late so I decided on a 'draw' for the match. When he is active he usually replies very promptly. G. Collins ... |
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