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

3Dprintable 1:2400 Milan Available

Italian irredentism on Wikipedia

Featured Ruleset

Law of the Gun

Featured Showcase Article

More 15mm Boxers from Cellmate

Tod gives us another look at his "old school" Boxer Rebellion figures.

Featured Workbench Article

Drilling Holes in Minis - Part III: Going Larger

Editor in Chief Bill weighs the pros and cons of using a power drill on the minis workbench.

Featured Profile Article

New Gate

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

Current Poll

Favorite British Monarch (Round 1D)

Featured Book Review

Union 1812

Topics Sorted by Last Post

Topic	Posts	Last Post
Chinese Massacre Cove, Oregon	3	13 Aug 2026 5:30 p.m. PST
Black Powder Revolver Myths	20	12 Aug 2026 5:17 p.m. PST
Wild West Scratch Buildings	7	12 Aug 2026 5:12 p.m. PST
Pony Wars: The Homestead	3	02 Aug 2026 10:19 p.m. PST
Best ~28mm totem poll?	8	27 Jul 2026 3:42 p.m. PST
Benteen or Custer?	19	17 Jul 2026 9:15 p.m. PST
Wagon Train Figures restored.	5	16 Jul 2026 5:31 p.m. PST
Big Bill's Saloon. Foam, plastic, cardboard, and wood.	3	14 Jul 2026 5:15 p.m. PST
Nazi Cowboys?!	10	11 Jul 2026 5:19 p.m. PST
Old Henry on Netflix	8	10 Jul 2026 3:05 p.m. PST
a Texan fight at Elm Creek	10	10 Jul 2026 8:09 a.m. PST
Great Escape Games - The Quick & the Lead	4	07 Jul 2026 5:09 p.m. PST
The Cowboys	8	02 Jul 2026 5:04 p.m. PST
Lone Star	5	26 Jun 2026 5:10 p.m. PST
Gen Pettygree Blog and the 150th Little Big Horn	6	25 Jun 2026 5:15 a.m. PST
Outlaw, Santa Fe. 1873	4	19 Jun 2026 5:09 p.m. PST
Gunfight at the Busted Flush	6	18 Jun 2026 8:02 p.m. PST
Zombie Stagecoach	5	15 Jun 2026 4:51 p.m. PST
28mm Wild Hunt, Ghost Riders in the Sky	10	15 Jun 2026 6:51 a.m. PST
28mm Ghost Riders in the Sky?	10	13 Jun 2026 9:23 p.m. PST
Salt and Blood: The Story of the 1877 El Paso Salt War	3	13 Jun 2026 5:22 p.m. PST
Give Em´ Hell Pike!	7	01 Jun 2026 5:05 p.m. PST
QRF - trouble at mill?	27	31 May 2026 4:34 a.m. PST
stealthy horses in the high grass	4	26 May 2026 5:53 p.m. PST
Western d'un dimanche avec Dead Man's Hand	1	26 May 2026 2:07 p.m. PST
fighting in cedar brakes	16	22 May 2026 11:45 a.m. PST
How the U.S. Almost Became a Nation of Hippo Ranchers	13	22 May 2026 7:43 a.m. PST
A Diary of Kit Carson y of Kit Carson's Navaho Campaign	5	20 May 2026 5:27 p.m. PST
Mexico’s Original Cowboys: History of the Vaqueros of Texas	1	18 May 2026 1:49 p.m. PST
Good Wild West Rules?	32	17 May 2026 1:29 p.m. PST
gunfighter rules?	11	12 May 2026 11:29 a.m. PST
Fort Laramie: America’s Road West – An Oasis, a Bastion	1	07 May 2026 1:59 p.m. PST
The Germans in the Seventh U.S....	7	05 May 2026 5:37 p.m. PST
Okay, so who else still plays with Scrubys?	35	03 May 2026 7:02 a.m. PST
Real Old Wild West Attractions You Have to See to Believe	9	27 Apr 2026 5:16 p.m. PST
And Now For Something Completely Different	3	24 Apr 2026 5:23 p.m. PST
U.S. Cavalry Sergeant	7	13 Apr 2026 4:58 p.m. PST
who else uses the old pencil sharpener wagons?	14	12 Apr 2026 9:21 a.m. PST
an appreciation of Knuckleduster's stl files	8	08 Apr 2026 5:27 p.m. PST
Cheyenne woman	3	04 Apr 2026 5:00 p.m. PST
The Mysterious Guns of Wyatt Earp	6	02 Apr 2026 5:10 p.m. PST
Gunfight at Adobe Wells Station	1	02 Apr 2026 1:47 p.m. PST
Trouble down in Ol Mexico, Sharp Practice AAR	3	01 Apr 2026 5:28 p.m. PST
does how the miniature is equipped matter?	27	29 Mar 2026 5:08 a.m. PST
Battle of The Little Big Horn - Battle Report	3	21 Mar 2026 5:05 p.m. PST
Facts Most People Don’t Know About the US Marshal Service	1	19 Mar 2026 2:14 p.m. PST
Mountain Men, Bounty Hunters	5	18 Mar 2026 5:17 p.m. PST
Ruthless	7	14 Mar 2026 10:52 p.m. PST
Prussia Needs Women!!	3	08 Mar 2026 10:38 p.m. PST
fighting prairie fires as a game?	10	03 Mar 2026 5:12 p.m. PST
Tom Horn Hangs Tough	3	02 Mar 2026 2:08 p.m. PST
When the West Needed Saturday Night	6	28 Feb 2026 2:13 p.m. PST
Trappeur Haut Missouri	3	28 Feb 2026 2:07 p.m. PST
Mustang & Indian Pony - Sketch of the Development	1	21 Feb 2026 4:46 p.m. PST
Cortina's Raid on Brownsville	3	19 Feb 2026 1:52 p.m. PST
Hold your horses!	16	14 Feb 2026 5:53 a.m. PST
Lone Star Salon	8	10 Feb 2026 2:15 p.m. PST
The Kentucky Rifle	5	08 Feb 2026 2:21 p.m. PST
Christmas in the old west. - Dead Mans Hand	3	05 Feb 2026 2:00 p.m. PST
The Battle of the Greasy Grass - Waddingtons Style	4	04 Feb 2026 5:54 p.m. PST
Civil War Black people. LEMAX conversions and others.	3	28 Jan 2026 4:41 p.m. PST
distribution of Colt revolvers in Texas	4	22 Jan 2026 6:26 p.m. PST
What a Cowboy- High Noon	1	18 Jan 2026 1:55 p.m. PST
Spanish Cuera to fight the early Apaches	76	15 Jan 2026 5:21 p.m. PST
“Memories that cannot die”	5	08 Jan 2026 10:08 p.m. PST
Showdown at Los Nachos.	4	08 Jan 2026 5:49 p.m. PST
a fight over jerky	6	04 Jan 2026 2:48 p.m. PST
The Dalton Gang's Last Raid - What a Cowboy!	4	04 Jan 2026 2:55 a.m. PST
The great expedition, Riverboat 1805	3	31 Dec 2025 5:06 p.m. PST
Texan Horses and cowboys by Erwin Smith	3	15 Dec 2025 5:54 p.m. PST
Colt Model 1839 Paterson Revolving Rifle	5	08 Dec 2025 4:56 p.m. PST
Dakota Warrior Sioux	3	02 Dec 2025 4:32 p.m. PST
Messed Up Things That Actually Happened In The Old West	3	30 Nov 2025 5:02 p.m. PST
“Hallelujah Trail” as a wargame	14	15 Nov 2025 9:14 a.m. PST
A day of 15mm WESTERN battles	4	09 Nov 2025 4:30 a.m. PST
Head Quarters detachment 2-Yellow Ribbon	3	04 Nov 2025 4:44 p.m. PST
Most Intense Gunfights In Western Movies	11	04 Nov 2025 1:04 p.m. PST
Mattie Ross 25mm mini anywhere?	17	31 Oct 2025 12:04 a.m. PST
How were flat roofs in Western towns covered?	13	27 Oct 2025 4:56 p.m. PST
ACW Fire and Fury game	11	25 Oct 2025 10:17 p.m. PST
Google AI and 28mm Buster Scruggs	6	23 Oct 2025 7:20 p.m. PST
Archaeology and the Changing View of Custer's Last Stand	6	19 Oct 2025 10:51 p.m. PST
Alien gravesite in TX	6	29 Sep 2025 8:25 a.m. PST
Figures for What a Cowboy	4	27 Sep 2025 10:02 p.m. PST
Robert Redford rides the Outlaw Trail	3	20 Sep 2025 1:59 p.m. PST
Arthur Fitzwilliam Tait - 'creating' Western images	1	13 Sep 2025 4:24 p.m. PST
Saddles of Gold Rush California	1	06 Sep 2025 4:19 p.m. PST
Bandits	4	05 Sep 2025 10:02 p.m. PST
Pink long johns	5	18 Aug 2025 4:27 p.m. PST
Scientists: The Unsung Heroes of the American West	3	16 Aug 2025 10:07 p.m. PST
Who's El Diablo?	1	12 Aug 2025 4:38 p.m. PST
My apologies! Dixon DOES make Buffalo soldiers!	4	11 Aug 2025 5:21 p.m. PST
Rules recommendations for Northfield Minnesota bank robbery?	17	10 Aug 2025 11:07 a.m. PST
New range from Gringos40. The Indian Wars	45	10 Aug 2025 1:16 a.m. PST
The Myth of the Buffalo Soldiers	11	09 Aug 2025 4:14 p.m. PST
"Skirmish at Long Bute Farm" game, Wargamers	1	23 Jul 2025 4:47 p.m. PST
Yellow Ribbon Variants- Apache and Seminoles	1	18 Jul 2025 4:16 p.m. PST
Frontier Miniatures - A New Beginning	69	15 Jul 2025 7:52 p.m. PST
How many John Waynes would you need?	15	14 Jul 2025 11:36 a.m. PST
Bad Day at Calton Creek	1	12 Jul 2025 4:45 p.m. PST