The Old West Message Board

For discussion of anything related to gaming the American West.

There are 100 topics listed on this page.

Sorry - only verified members can start new topics on the forum. Would you like to be a Basic Member?

Enter the term you want to find in a message, and press Search.

Back to the 19th Century Message Boards

Areas of Interest

19th Century

Featured Hobby News Article

Gringo40s: New Artwork for Our 28mm Apache-Comanche Wars 1700-1900 Range

Featured Recent Link

US Naval History Podcast

Top-Rated Ruleset

The Sword and the Flame

Rating:

Featured Showcase Article

Blue Moon's Romanian Civilians, Part One

We begin a look at Blue Moon's Romanian Civilians, as painted for us by PhilGreg Painters.

Featured Workbench Article

VSF Vessels from the London War Room

Mardaddy has an adventure with two Victorian science-fiction vessels.

Featured Profile Article

New Gate

sargonII, traveling in the Middle East, continues his report on the gates of Jerusalem.

Topics Sorted by Last Post

Topic	Posts	Last Post
Miniatures and rules for Indian wars (Southwest)	11	06 May 2024 6:49 p.m. PST
Panic, Erratic Behavior, and the Psychological Impact	3	06 May 2024 3:44 p.m. PST
Norton I, Emperor of the United States	9	05 May 2024 3:38 p.m. PST
New range from Gringos40. The Indian Wars	17	03 May 2024 3:37 p.m. PST
Gunfight at the OK Corral & The Earp Vendetta Ride	1	03 May 2024 12:46 p.m. PST
Sculpting Chinese miners	10	02 May 2024 9:05 p.m. PST
What did 1850s Texas Rangers Look Like?	10	02 May 2024 2:11 p.m. PST
Chuck Wagon.	9	02 May 2024 12:29 p.m. PST
Does anyone make 28mm Apache warriors?	14	01 May 2024 5:25 p.m. PST
Any TMPers played RUTHLESS yet?	23	01 May 2024 2:25 p.m. PST
Purgatory 2 - A Gary Chalk Wild West Town in 20mm	7	30 Apr 2024 7:08 a.m. PST
Rosa Bonheur and Buffalo Bill & his Indians 1889	4	28 Apr 2024 5:01 p.m. PST
Food Poisoning in the Old West	13	27 Apr 2024 5:14 p.m. PST
Review: Heritage Mfg. Settler Mare's Leg	1	24 Apr 2024 5:03 p.m. PST
Guns From The Old West You’ve Got To Know	10	23 Apr 2024 4:29 p.m. PST
Best cavalry vs plains Indian rules	11	23 Apr 2024 6:28 a.m. PST
The Greatest Shootout in Wild West History	11	23 Apr 2024 5:01 a.m. PST
For the Record...	10	22 Apr 2024 5:48 a.m. PST
Misguided by experience: a defense of Custer's actions	14	20 Apr 2024 11:09 a.m. PST
Good Wild West Rules?	31	18 Apr 2024 3:34 p.m. PST
Major Dundee--what happened to him afterwards?	35	16 Apr 2024 6:50 p.m. PST
Why We’ve Gotten ‘Custer’s Last Stand’ Wrong ...	32	10 Apr 2024 1:26 p.m. PST
Hembrillo Battlefield	1	25 Mar 2024 5:07 p.m. PST
Colt Revolvers: The Greatest Handguns of the Old West	9	23 Mar 2024 3:40 p.m. PST
Rare Images Of Wild West Saloons That Show...	4	23 Mar 2024 3:38 p.m. PST
Wild West Figures May Not Have Appropriate Headgear	11	23 Mar 2024 3:05 p.m. PST
Purgatory 2 - we're back in 20mm	7	23 Mar 2024 12:57 a.m. PST
Buildings for my TWI project	8	22 Mar 2024 7:28 a.m. PST
Westerns That Were Wonderfully Weird	7	18 Mar 2024 3:34 p.m. PST
Is Hawgleg Publishing still in business?	3	12 Mar 2024 12:59 p.m. PST
Old West Game.	1	11 Mar 2024 5:09 p.m. PST
Pony Wars - Life is cheap on the plains.	5	05 Mar 2024 4:48 p.m. PST
Need Simplified Terrain Map of Buena Vista Battelfield	6	28 Feb 2024 10:48 a.m. PST
Osprey Combat: Texian Vol vs Mexican Soldado	4	20 Feb 2024 8:30 p.m. PST
Women and the Myth of the American West	5	20 Feb 2024 3:24 p.m. PST
The Ghosts Of Guerrilla Memory: How Civil War Bushwhackers	1	16 Feb 2024 5:13 p.m. PST
The Weird Old West: Horror And Fantasy	18	07 Feb 2024 4:32 p.m. PST
Resistance of the Indians in the West	9	01 Feb 2024 3:17 p.m. PST
7th Cavalry on the Plains! The Sioux aren't impressed.	3	31 Jan 2024 7:07 a.m. PST
old west train station in 20-28mm	21	20 Jan 2024 4:38 p.m. PST
wargame rules to fight the battles of the 1876 campaign	6	19 Jan 2024 10:09 p.m. PST
Warhammer Legends of the old west?	11	17 Jan 2024 7:40 a.m. PST
Hallelujah Trail	17	13 Jan 2024 6:03 a.m. PST
Alamo Project North Wall	9	12 Jan 2024 4:04 p.m. PST
25mm Indian with bows	10	09 Jan 2024 11:53 p.m. PST
Some more warriors with guns	7	03 Jan 2024 12:53 p.m. PST
Favorite Western Gunfighter Actor: Clint Eastwood	8	03 Jan 2024 7:46 a.m. PST
The Old West 1816-1900 Skirmish Wargames	13	31 Dec 2023 11:37 a.m. PST
15mm Western Town Buildings	7	26 Dec 2023 11:27 p.m. PST
Mounted 9th and 10th Cavalry	7	24 Dec 2023 5:09 p.m. PST
Follow Me to Hell: McNelly's Texas Rangers and the	4	24 Dec 2023 3:16 p.m. PST
A Return to the Wounded Knee Occupation, 50 Years Later	1	22 Dec 2023 9:13 p.m. PST
The Colt Walker 1847: The Most Powerful Sidearm Ever	21	20 Dec 2023 4:21 p.m. PST
What the 1865 Cheyenne Arapaho Treaty...	1	18 Dec 2023 9:02 p.m. PST
Old west saloon1/72	1	15 Dec 2023 5:13 p.m. PST
What a Cowboy Mechanics	6	15 Dec 2023 3:03 a.m. PST
Figure Recommendation, John Herod - Quick and the Dead	2	09 Dec 2023 10:16 p.m. PST
Who makes Hollywood Cavalry?	21	06 Dec 2023 1:38 p.m. PST
Favorite John Ford Film? Mister Roberts!	20	05 Dec 2023 6:24 p.m. PST
Favorite Western Gunfighter Actor	49	02 Dec 2023 9:41 a.m. PST
Knuckleduster Prices	12	29 Nov 2023 9:51 a.m. PST
What Buildings Does Every Old West Town Need?	29	28 Nov 2023 8:57 a.m. PST
What a Cowboy at the OK Corral - DWG	2	25 Nov 2023 6:59 p.m. PST
Mounted Cowboys available in US?	6	25 Nov 2023 4:49 p.m. PST
Wargames Atlantic Horses	15	16 Nov 2023 6:24 a.m. PST
Best Old West Buildings by Price Point	6	13 Nov 2023 4:11 p.m. PST
Old West...	1	06 Nov 2023 5:00 p.m. PST
Imex 513 Chuck Wagon	1	04 Nov 2023 4:52 p.m. PST
Des tipis dans les plaines du Far West	7	02 Nov 2023 6:13 a.m. PST
Scoring the Presidents on Integrity and Humanity in ...	7	01 Nov 2023 8:38 a.m. PST
John Ford's Cavalry Trilogy: Myth or Reality?	5	14 Oct 2023 3:23 p.m. PST
More What a Cowboy!	3	14 Oct 2023 3:22 p.m. PST
U.S. Cavalry Civil War.	3	08 Oct 2023 4:04 p.m. PST
Mustangs in the U.S. Army	2	25 Sep 2023 8:53 p.m. PST
The US-Mexican War: Forgotten Foes	3	23 Sep 2023 3:06 p.m. PST
Rangers, Mounties, And The Subjugation Of	7	17 Sep 2023 4:41 p.m. PST
Last building for San Miguel	3	12 Sep 2023 7:02 p.m. PST
More buildings for San Miguel	5	11 Sep 2023 8:02 p.m. PST
Introducing: Kit Carson	3	08 Sep 2023 3:27 p.m. PST
1864 Sand Creek Massacre: History and Impact	6	08 Sep 2023 8:24 a.m. PST
Best Weird West Movie	25	08 Sep 2023 8:06 a.m. PST
Gaming of the virtual kind - Old West - Shoot out...	5	07 Sep 2023 7:24 p.m. PST
Sundance Kid	3	06 Sep 2023 6:43 a.m. PST
Wild West Exodus?	7	31 Aug 2023 7:42 a.m. PST
What a Cowboy-The Rescue	1	28 Aug 2023 8:53 p.m. PST
Western figures from TV and Movies	20	26 Aug 2023 11:28 a.m. PST
Imex 518 Conestoga Wagon	5	25 Aug 2023 3:04 p.m. PST
Artizan's Earp brothers	15	23 Aug 2023 1:49 a.m. PST
Wild West Themed Miniatures Skirmish Wargames	3	22 Aug 2023 3:06 p.m. PST
The easiest period to get started with is...	20	19 Aug 2023 5:23 p.m. PST
Impressions of Dead Man	7	19 Aug 2023 12:25 p.m. PST
New Study Debunks Tales of Mass Suicide at Custer’s Last	7	18 Aug 2023 8:00 a.m. PST
James West knocks her on her butt	20	16 Aug 2023 10:05 p.m. PST
"Forget the Alamo" Synthesizes Revisionist Scholarship	10	16 Aug 2023 10:00 p.m. PST
Talking terrain builds on the blog	1	16 Aug 2023 4:14 p.m. PST
Wild West.	6	16 Aug 2023 3:30 p.m. PST
More Sarissa Old West Buildings for Babel	7	15 Aug 2023 4:15 a.m. PST
A War was coming...a Great Rail War!!	5	13 Aug 2023 5:30 p.m. PST
Favorite John Ford Film	19	13 Aug 2023 10:41 a.m. PST
TWI: Mexican Permanente cavalry (dismounted)	4	13 Aug 2023 10:33 a.m. PST