Blake wrote: The shark was easy to find at Murfreesboro.
I have heard tale of the witches but haven't found them. My first place to look was in Salem which is at the corner of the Murfreesboro map. But no luck.
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You know, if some genius worked at Talonsoft they might have made all these clues related in some way. Perhaps there is a treasure buried out there near a lake with a mythical shark, near a place where witches are rumored to be, and controlled by the cult of the Subgenius. Maybe there are more clues out there.
Reminds me of the buried treasure book https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Secret_(treasure_hunt)
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To anyone reading this from WDS - easter eggs are great. You put a few random things like this buried in your game and we will still be talking about them 25 years from now.
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The best message I have ever seen in a game was done by Tex McSwain. I guess he won the game early and the last ten turns were pretty slow as his opponent stuck to the defensive. So he put a message on the board so that when the final turn was played it would pop up on his opponent's screen. Well-played, sir, well-played. .jpg?width=450&height=278&fit=bounds&crop=fill)
I remember Tex's message from a post in the Confederate forums. Great stuff.
There once were random things in the WDS games. I think they were a carryover from the original JTS maps. I know that in Antietam #186 there were scarecrows in {16,16} and {18,20} (see old MDT post https://wargame.ch/board/acwgc/viewtopic.php?f=4&t=22906&hilit). In that scenario, there was also:
Barn with cow {27,3};
Hay Bales {13,8} and two adjacent hexes;
Well {15,20};
Round pen {4,27};
Cart {17,28};
Man with gun {17,29};
Rectangle pen {8,31-32};
Pig {15,34};
Cow {30,34}; and
Something indistinguishable to me {8,27}.
As I said in the Scarecrows post I thought they were a nice touch and it put a smile on my face when I saw them.
All those things were still visible in WDS v4.02 but sadly have been purged from the map in V4.04.
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