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Ancient & Medieval rules from Ed Smith, Cass/Connett, LWS?	5	30 Mar 2026 10:42 a.m. PST
What’s on your sling bullet?	20	30 Mar 2026 9:18 a.m. PST
forged in battle war and empire 15mm ancients	8	28 Mar 2026 7:58 p.m. PST
The Sphinx has a twin?	11	28 Mar 2026 3:38 p.m. PST
Roman Fury: Crushing the Bar Kokhba Revolt	5	26 Mar 2026 5:12 p.m. PST
1968 Society of Ancients rules?	10	26 Mar 2026 4:39 a.m. PST
Lesson learnt?	10	25 Mar 2026 11:49 a.m. PST
Analysing ADLG Player Numbers	7	23 Mar 2026 11:04 p.m. PST
What did Ancient Warriors wear under their helmets ?	13	22 Mar 2026 8:02 a.m. PST
Battle of Issus	1	20 Mar 2026 1:58 p.m. PST
Bronze Age Spearhead Mold Found	4	20 Mar 2026 9:53 a.m. PST
Naval warfare in the Bronze Age	6	17 Mar 2026 10:05 p.m. PST
Alexander’s lost city and Parthian stronghold found!	4	14 Mar 2026 11:48 a.m. PST
Gripping Beast and A&A Sassanid Infantry Size Comparison?	3	13 Mar 2026 1:39 p.m. PST
Late Roman Equites Scholae Palatinae- Rapid Painted Horses	6	11 Mar 2026 10:51 p.m. PST
Escape Troy With Song of Blades and Heroes!	1	09 Mar 2026 9:04 p.m. PST
Art de la Guerre… We are back!	1	06 Mar 2026 12:47 a.m. PST
The Zama Campaign Reconstructed - update:	4	05 Mar 2026 6:29 a.m. PST
A Clash of arms - Theodoric II and Childeric I	1	27 Feb 2026 2:02 p.m. PST
PSC Cromarty Forge 15mm figures	7	25 Feb 2026 5:49 a.m. PST
Ipsus close-ups!	4	23 Feb 2026 2:12 p.m. PST
The Zama Campaign Reconstructed	7	20 Feb 2026 10:42 a.m. PST
Elephant bone found in Spain dating to the 2nd Punic War	8	19 Feb 2026 7:45 a.m. PST
Crusader Miniatures vs Gripping Beast	7	16 Feb 2026 9:51 a.m. PST
Chasing an Ancient Unicorn	5	12 Feb 2026 3:33 a.m. PST
How do you wargame the Bronze Age?	28	10 Feb 2026 2:52 p.m. PST
Single-Combat in Warfare.	14	03 Feb 2026 6:02 p.m. PST
Eureka Miniatures Warring States as early Han Chinese?	6	30 Jan 2026 7:02 p.m. PST
Should Hannibal Gone Full Fabian at Zama?	76	22 Jan 2026 8:20 a.m. PST
Strategos Releases today	3	21 Jan 2026 8:03 p.m. PST
Midgard Heroic Battles	1	19 Jan 2026 1:50 p.m. PST
Recommend me some Dark Ages skirmish rules	14	19 Jan 2026 5:28 a.m. PST
From Thermopylae to Leuctra: The Evolution of the Spartan	11	18 Jan 2026 10:15 p.m. PST
2,000 year old carnyx discovered in England	10	14 Jan 2026 9:55 a.m. PST
Roman self-healing concrete method discovered in Pompeii	3	14 Jan 2026 2:19 a.m. PST
Römer beim Picknick	1	11 Jan 2026 1:45 p.m. PST
My Women Fight Like Men	1	08 Jan 2026 2:02 p.m. PST
Converting Viking Rules for Romans and Celts	7	07 Jan 2026 10:23 a.m. PST
The first kamikaze	14	04 Jan 2026 8:25 p.m. PST
Rome’s ‘museum stations’ finally open	4	30 Dec 2025 10:09 a.m. PST
Seleukid civil war - 28mm Fantastic Battles	5	26 Dec 2025 4:48 p.m. PST
"Blood of Kings & Heroes" - new rules	2	26 Dec 2025 11:05 a.m. PST
Roman slaves were well fed	9	25 Dec 2025 5:29 a.m. PST
Plague Sheep!	12	22 Dec 2025 11:26 p.m. PST
Chariots At MOAB	3	21 Dec 2025 4:59 p.m. PST
Your wish list for 15mm Khurasan Historicals....	15	21 Dec 2025 2:06 p.m. PST
Rules for Mongol Warfare	8	18 Dec 2025 5:47 a.m. PST
Byzantiad - 'Doing the Math'	1	16 Dec 2025 1:56 p.m. PST
Barbarians Used Stimulants When Fighting the Roman Empire	6	15 Dec 2025 5:55 p.m. PST
Comitatus 2026	4	14 Dec 2025 12:16 p.m. PST
Why play Ancients?	38	14 Dec 2025 7:18 a.m. PST
First. Second and Third Punic Wars	10	14 Dec 2025 7:07 a.m. PST
Expedition to the ancestors. Where did the Egyptian...	1	13 Dec 2025 2:18 p.m. PST
Sword and Spear 2nd Thoughts	5	12 Dec 2025 9:57 p.m. PST
Mycenaean standard	7	10 Dec 2025 12:56 a.m. PST
About De Bellis Velitum?	7	08 Dec 2025 6:52 p.m. PST
Adding a couple units to my Celtic army	6	04 Dec 2025 10:27 p.m. PST
Ancient Greek 25mm herald?	6	04 Dec 2025 10:24 p.m. PST
Best Ancient Skirmish Rules?	12	02 Dec 2025 8:13 p.m. PST
Why I have the miniatures I have.	4	29 Nov 2025 6:54 p.m. PST
Long Haired Greeks?	8	29 Nov 2025 5:36 p.m. PST
Time to put an end to sabot bases?	20	25 Nov 2025 8:16 a.m. PST
Atlantis revealed?	40	22 Nov 2025 6:47 a.m. PST
DNA Study Reveals How Phoenician Culture Spread ...	1	21 Nov 2025 2:03 p.m. PST
The Stele of Messalim Bronze age Scenario	1	16 Nov 2025 12:18 a.m. PST
GoT wildling army in 15mm?	3	15 Nov 2025 7:12 p.m. PST
Battle of Mursa: Bodies in a well	5	11 Nov 2025 2:40 a.m. PST
Fall of the Bazanti	1	05 Nov 2025 2:15 p.m. PST
Opinions needed on 1/900 and 1/1200 ships	11	04 Nov 2025 11:23 a.m. PST
Heavy Foot in Built up Areas	12	02 Nov 2025 9:08 p.m. PST
“History is written by those who write things down.”	5	23 Oct 2025 11:15 p.m. PST
How is Battle Command Ancient and Medieval different?	4	20 Oct 2025 5:40 p.m. PST
2,000-year-old Roman recipes brought back to life	13	18 Oct 2025 9:34 a.m. PST
LOD Trojan War figures.	1	17 Oct 2025 4:43 p.m. PST
Cesar et Cleopatre	5	17 Oct 2025 4:20 p.m. PST
To the Strongest! and Mortem (Renatio) et Gloriam	13	16 Oct 2025 9:51 a.m. PST
Ancient Britons and their chariots	6	14 Oct 2025 3:14 p.m. PST
Ancient Roman Gravestone found in… New Orleans?!?!	8	14 Oct 2025 10:55 a.m. PST
Ancient Battles and Dominion of the Spear	1	13 Oct 2025 4:35 p.m. PST
The Rise of the Barbarian Kingdoms	1	08 Oct 2025 4:30 p.m. PST
Astonishing Discoveries About the Ancient World	3	05 Oct 2025 4:38 p.m. PST
The Sword in Gaul variant: unit question!	3	30 Sep 2025 2:17 p.m. PST
Was Flavius Aetius “Last of the Romans”?	6	30 Sep 2025 8:02 a.m. PST
Red Copper Miniatures	3	30 Sep 2025 7:19 a.m. PST
Military Service during the Principate	13	29 Sep 2025 11:00 a.m. PST
The Wargaming Possibilities of Rome’s Lost Ninth Legion	8	27 Sep 2025 10:10 p.m. PST
Rod and Carol Langton shutting down	9	26 Sep 2025 5:00 p.m. PST
List of 15mm Ancient and Medieval Ranges at Dante's Wars	8	23 Sep 2025 11:36 a.m. PST
'extraordinary' helmet tied to legendary Roman battle	5	21 Sep 2025 9:52 p.m. PST
Roman soldier's sunhat?	7	04 Sep 2025 9:41 a.m. PST
The Wheels Came Off The Wagon! Repairing Chariots	8	03 Sep 2025 5:17 p.m. PST
Better markers for MIdgard	5	02 Sep 2025 10:04 p.m. PST
Should Roman Empire Have Its Own Board?	28	01 Sep 2025 9:48 p.m. PST
Oldest written reference to Moses revealed- predates Bible	21	24 Aug 2025 12:10 p.m. PST
Who killed Ramesses III? How science solved an ...	6	17 Aug 2025 11:59 p.m. PST
Comitatus 26 Play test	1	15 Aug 2025 9:28 a.m. PST
Roman feather colors	24	09 Aug 2025 2:46 a.m. PST
Re-release Foundry Sassanid Persians	2	07 Aug 2025 7:33 a.m. PST
Minifigs 'JonBee' Ancients	5	06 Aug 2025 4:01 a.m. PST
What on Earth is the Sacred Symbol of the Djed Pillar?	4	02 Aug 2025 9:37 p.m. PST