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Forum: Mason Dixon Tavern Topic: Routed Infantry With 12 Movement Points |
| mihalik |
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Posted: Fri May 15, 2026 9:28 am
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Replies: 2
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| It is a surprise to me, but a pleasant one that makes sense. In fact, maybe even increase the movement points further. |
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Forum: Mason Dixon Tavern Topic: A Crazy Situation |
| mihalik |
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Posted: Fri May 15, 2026 9:26 am
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Replies: 12
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| Well, I'm done arguing. Why don't you submit this to WDS and see what they tell you. |
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Forum: Mason Dixon Tavern Topic: A Crazy Situation |
| mihalik |
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Posted: Thu May 14, 2026 10:22 pm
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Replies: 12
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| The zone of control of a unit only extends into its three frontal hexes, so the hex the Confederate unit retreated forward into could not be in the zone of control of the unit marked '0' or the pictured artillery. My extensive experience has been that units can and often do retreat into one of their... |
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Forum: Mason Dixon Tavern Topic: A Crazy Situation |
| mihalik |
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Posted: Thu May 14, 2026 8:57 pm
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Replies: 12
Views: 565
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| To me, it appears they could retreat forward because there is no indication in the diagram that the Confederate frontal hexes were in the Union units' zone of control. |
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Forum: Mason Dixon Tavern Topic: Night movement and attacks |
| mihalik |
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Posted: Wed May 06, 2026 10:57 am
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Replies: 3
Views: 447
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| Guys Does moving and attacking at night make any sense? Thinking about Launching an attack but the cost seems very high. as to Movement it is a bit less but hard to do so been lucky so far trying to Take Longstreet's advice To Lee. The main advantage to attacking at night is that any ensuing morale... |
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Forum: Mason Dixon Tavern Topic: Seeing into wooded hexes from a far |
| mihalik |
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Posted: Sun Apr 19, 2026 11:52 am
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Replies: 4
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| What immediately popped into mind when I saw this was the fate of Iverson's Brigade at Gettysburg. Whether this was an outlier or more common I do not know, but the outcome was devastating. http://www.gdg.org/Gettysburg%20Magazine/iverson.html One of the neat features of EFOW is that by deploying sk... |
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Forum: Mason Dixon Tavern Topic: Extreme FOW: Yes or No? |
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Posted: Fri Apr 17, 2026 6:49 pm
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Replies: 18
Views: 4088
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| "...if you trust them that completely then why even use a password?" I use them only to prevent accidentally opening a move when it's my opponents turn. I always use the same file name for every move and if I mis-save my opponents move to me and thus accidentally open up the old file I se... |
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Forum: Mason Dixon Tavern Topic: Extreme FOW: Yes or No? |
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Posted: Thu Apr 16, 2026 9:27 am
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| I'm surprised so many eschew the enhanced realism of EFOW because of the nuisance of being unable to see from a hex where nobody is, but to each their own. What I usually do is look for a promising hex and send a mounted officer to investigate before moving a unit there. I don't see anything gamey a... |
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Forum: Mason Dixon Tavern Topic: Extreme FOW: Yes or No? |
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Posted: Tue Apr 14, 2026 10:23 pm
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Replies: 18
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| I like extreme fog of war. I think the decrease in available information on enemy units. particularly in covering terrain, is more realistic. So is the inability to check line of sight from a hex not occupied by a friendly unit, even though that can be mildly annoying. The only feature I disagree wi... |
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Forum: Mason Dixon Tavern Topic: What about this? |
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Posted: Tue Apr 14, 2026 11:04 am
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Replies: 4
Views: 1899
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| I believe the rule was originally instituted many years ago to prevent Confederates beating up on the Yanks on the first day and then retreating off the map on the second day. There were other ways this could have been handled, such as placing objectives near the Confederate side of the map, but tha... |
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Forum: Mason Dixon Tavern Topic: Chickasaw Bayou Scenario o1h |
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Posted: Sun Mar 08, 2026 3:10 pm
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| Playing this scenario we noticed something we had never before encountered. First, Steele's Division enters on the bank of the Yazoo River as a reinforcement, but it is fixed with a scheduled release time! Second, if the infantry change formation from column into line, they automatically deploy skir... |
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Forum: Mason Dixon Tavern Topic: I’m Officially Old |
| mihalik |
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Posted: Fri Nov 07, 2025 11:01 am
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Replies: 9
Views: 3015
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| Never fell asleep during a replay, but I have had to stop and take a nap in the middle of doing a turn. |
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Forum: Mason Dixon Tavern Topic: Peninsula |
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Posted: Sat Nov 01, 2025 5:36 pm
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Replies: 10
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| I never read much about either land mines or balloons being used after the Peninsula Campaign. I'm sure there is a reason for this. |
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Forum: Mason Dixon Tavern Topic: Question about club rules |
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Posted: Fri Oct 17, 2025 10:37 am
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Replies: 25
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| Column Melee House Rules If I had to guess, and this might be confirmed by some old timers like Ned Simms, DW Mallory, or Mark Nelms, but I bet that when the HPS version of the games was released that many people played the game in Turns. This is poorly named, I know! But in "Turns" each ... |
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Forum: Mason Dixon Tavern Topic: Memory Test |
| mihalik |
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Posted: Fri Oct 17, 2025 10:07 am
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Replies: 15
Views: 8637
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| Got it and played it with Bill Smith back in 95. Nothing strange that I recall but casualties were in multiples of 25. |
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