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<t>Saw it Saturday night, and it WAS excellent. The portrait of Lincoln is uncanny, certainly, and I agree that Day-Lewis is a shoo-in for Best Actor. What is also great about the movie is that it's about back-room politics in the days of the spoils system. It's talk-y, but it was immersive for the ...

Thanks for the education on the artillery types and uses, Willard. Excellent post.

<t>My last post got deleted. It ran something like this:<br/> <br/> I played more games closely monitoring the opening engagement ranges of the infantry regiments, with different Stances--on "None," and "Hold to the Last," for example--and the engagement ranges looked pretty much like the ones descr...

<t>I played the game tonight, Div. vs. Div., and moved around and monitored opening engagement ranges. They were, in yards: 99, 139, 156, 139, 119, 68, 110, and 135. The average is 121 yards. <br/> The average is pretty close to perfect, historically. And the distribution is pretty nice, too. Excell...

<r>The researchers (Griffith and Nosworthy), including Batrinque, stress that many references to starting engagement ranges can be found at every distance from 20 to 250 yards.<br/> I agree with Little Powell that we should lengthen regiments' rifle-musket range to a distance outside canister range....

<r>Bruce Trinque of the Gettysburg Discussion Group just sent me the best research I have yet seen on engagement ranges of formed bodies of infantry. <br/> His research builds on Paddy Griffith (_Battle Tactics of the Civil War_), Brent Nosworthy (_Crucible of Courage_), and a couple of other resear...

<r><B><s>[b]</s>NY Cavalry wrote:<e>[/b]</e></B> <QUOTE><s>[quote]</s>I was playing a sandbox game and had some cavalry attached to my command. So, I sent them off scouting for the enemy. I was playing "hunt them down-no objectives". I play limited sight, limited map, and couriers. After they (the c...

<t>These are excellent posts on couriers, one of my favorite features. Here are my comments:<br/> <br/> Yes, the locations on the Send Courier menus should all be corrected so that they're complete and legit.<br/> <br/> Yes, the ability to write (type) messages to other human players is a much-reque...

<t>All good stuff, NY--as Little Powell said, we'll work on it. As far as Sheridan's use of cavalry, however, that's 1864, and doesn't need to be reflected in our 1863 model. Cavalry is best used in this game in "Hunt Them Down" Sandbox situations, where you don't know where the enemy is, and need t...

Congrats, Son! Enjoy your treat!