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Remise

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Remise last won the day on May 20 2014

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    Games, history, Civil War reenacting, fencing

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  1. Randy -- Rumor has it that you are a playtester here. I have been trying to get in touch with you for 15 years. Please send me a PM, or email me, even, at Remise@aol.com. There are some people who are looking for you (not process servers or ISIS!). Thanks, B.C. Milligan
  2. I am talking about the Randy Reed of "Tobruk" and "The Longest Day" fame. There are people who want to get in touch with you. PM me if you are willing. Touch the elbow, B.C. Milligan
  3. Rab -- As you can see, I am not here as often as I might be. I thought I would mention that one of the members of my reenacting unit -- Wade Russell -- is a retired Lt. Colonel from the Royal Army.
  4. FYI, pre-Memorial Day, about 2,000 of us will be marching down Pennsylvania Avenue in D.C. in the 150th anniversary commemoration of the Grand Review. I will post details for those who might be interested...
  5. Double shot I will. P.S. Did you ever hear of the experiment someone -- I think it was the Austrians -- conducted in the 18th century, where they alleged loaded two guns with chain shot (with the chain hanging between the two barrels, in which the shot were placed, with powder of course) in the hopes this might mow down an entire rank or two of opposing infantry? Of course, for this to succeed would have required that both guns be discharged at exactly the same instant. Oops. If this story really is true, I believe things went quite badly for the gun crews.... B.C. Milligan
  6. Roger that -- and if you ever want to cross the pond and fall in to see what it was like (sort of), we can dress you from head to toe and put a Springfield in your hands. I have some obvious theories about your obsession with the Great Valley -- you might want to check out this book sometime: http://www.amazon.com/Echoes-Battlefield-First-Person-Accounts-Civil/dp/1475246064/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1429245099&sr=8-1&keywords=echoes+from+the+battlefield
  7. No Pasaran -- Thanks for your reply. This is the same guys, doing the same piece, with a link that should work: My schedule is very dicey, but sometime I would love to play a game versus you. I don't know your real name, of course, but I may be able to guess if I tell you that I am a Campbell, but don't blame me -- I wasn't there! Whenever I say this to someone I have just met, and they start to laugh, I know we will never be friends. There is, of course, a call for retreat, though this requires the bugler to still be on his feet! P.S. I may know Auld Brogan indeed, as I know one of their members is a very avid gamer.
  8. Thanks, General Nivelle! For the record, that is not me, tootling the bugle. That is a German fellow who is not half bad. Having been a Civil War reenactor for 15 years does not qualify me as an expert on the Civil War, but I have heard the proper bugle calls for "Advance" and many other things (there are 21 separate calls just for skirmish drill!) hundreds of times over the years. And having been a game designer for longer than that, unless the technology has changed drastically, I do not think it is all that hard to swap out .wav files or whatever they use. Having said all of THAT, I know the team is working very hard and is very busy. I just do hope they are able to fix the obvious historical gaffes at some point. Fortunately for them, I won't even mention the anomaly of Federal troops having their muskets on their left shoulders, when in the advance into battle, the command would have been, "Right Shoulder Shift." P.S. Just for fun here is some music from a band that would have provided it probably for free, as I know them (with the battle of Gettysburg as their background) Maybe in the sequel....:http://civilwarband.com/dvd/
  9. I know I lost my fight to have -- even if I could get it for you for free, which I probably could have -- authentic field music a long time ago. But for the love of history, could you please replace that incredibly annoying, postwar (i.e., 1978), Hollywood style "Charge" bugle call? Not only did it not come into use until 13 years after the war ended (and I have this from the man who leads the Federal City Brass Band, which specializes in Civil War music), but as far as I know, this bugle call was never, ever -- I mean never! -- used by the infantry. This is such an easy thing to fix, I am stymied as to why you would not want to do so. If I ever hear the right call -- at 40 seconds on this video( ), I promise to start posting comments in this forum again (not, I suspect, that this would mean much to anybody). Respectfully, B.C. Milligan
  10. NC Rebel -- I was there indeed, and if you were at Spotsylvania, done by the same people, it was far, far better. I hope you will make Cedar Creek -- the organizers told me back in May they were expecting at least 9,000 of us. P.S. If you go, bring an extra blanket!
  11. Almost every reenactor has either fired, or stood next to, the "elephant gun," flilled with two, and occasionally more than that, rounds, and even when just two go off, there is a ripple in the ranks of the company; the man on either side of the firing individual jumps, and inevitably, there is a cry of "What the hell?" from somewhere in the ranks. We don't use a full load of powder, and nobody is firing real bullets at us, when we reenact. But the adrenaline is real, and so is the sound. Thousands of muskets being discharged in rapid sequence, combined with (sometimes) the roar of up to 100 cannon, the shouts of officers, file closers, and others, can make it incredibly hard to hear even the sound of your own musket, and the other measure we use -- smoke and sometimes a flash from the barrel -- can also be hard to see, at a large event. And as Mr. Blunt noted, all it takes to get this hellbound train rolling is having just one cap fall off the nipple without your noticing (very easy to do, as you don't look at the firelock when you pull that trigger). A damp round can contribute too, as it won't go off at first, till repeated use of caps helps it to dry out just enough to ignite.
  12. I hope that if you do nothing else with the uniforms, you at least have the Federal infantry carrying their muskets on their right, not their left, shoulder. This is a hugely obvious error.
  13. Yes. I remember reading that when some of the survivors went back to camp that night, they asked where was the rest of the brigade. They were shocked to be told that there was no "rest of the brigade."
  14. That might work. I think the old SPI monster game on Waterloo did something like that. Despite the huge amount of artillery rounds fired at the battle, the Confederates, according to Alexander or somebody, still had enough remaining for one more battle, and for the Federal troops, because of their relatively close proximity to Washington and Philadelphia, ammunition shortages would have been temporary enough that they probably would have fired off all they had. Did I not have to mow the lawn, I would poke around in the Official Records, as surely there are reports somewhere of how much ammunition remained, at least for the Army of the Potomac, after the battle.
  15. Nick -- Thanks for explaining the videttes. If I may say so, my primary complaint about this intention (besides the oft-repeated statement that videttes were never units), is that I am unaware of any incident at Gettysburg in which artillery was "harassed" by enemy cavalry. Most Civil War cavalry fought on foot, unless it was fighting other cavalry. I do not recall any cavalry, at any time during the entire war, acting as mounted skirmishers and annoying artillery. For starters, this would have been suicidal, as a man on foot offers a far smaller target than a man on horseback, both to canister and to round shot, and thus a dismounted skirmisher -- who, unlke his infantry counterparts, could easily load and fire while prone, and who would have been extremely inaccurate if attempting to fire his carbine while mounted -- would have been much safer from all types of artillery projectile than a man on horseback. You will note that all of the formed cavalry on the first day quickly dismounted when it arrived on the battlefield -- they did not charge the Confederate artillery or infantry, because their officers knew very well what the result would be. So I don't even see why you need to offer this ability in the first place. I don't exactly know what you mean abut having a historical meaning, as there is nothing historical about this decision. As far as pleasing every type of player, if your goal is to please people who know nothing about the Civil War, then perhaps the battle of Gettysburg is not the platform for this. You may make your fantasy gamers happy, but in doing so, you will lose your historical gamers. This, of course, is your decision.
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