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FIW Historical Fiction Novels	19	30 Jun 2025 1:52 p.m. PST
Counting something other than stands or figures	14	29 Jun 2025 3:23 p.m. PST
Guibert's so-called 'column of attack'	280	28 Jun 2025 9:35 a.m. PST
Talk to me about 20mm x 25mm infantry bases	9	24 Jun 2025 11:28 p.m. PST
Frontier Miniatures - A New Beginning	67	24 Jun 2025 9:04 p.m. PST
Ahoy!: Command a sailing vessel in the 1780s Carribean	1	23 Jun 2025 7:38 p.m. PST
17th Century Campaign Map of Germany	12	12 Jun 2025 11:59 a.m. PST
‘Hannover Siegt, Der Franzmann Liegt’	3	03 Jun 2025 4:22 p.m. PST
Round hats continentals, militia which side looped up?	13	30 May 2025 9:09 a.m. PST
Vauban's Wars Revisited	7	27 May 2025 4:12 p.m. PST
More Zinnfiguren units completed	3	27 May 2025 4:11 p.m. PST
Marches and Matrixes: Horse and Musket Campaigning	1	20 May 2025 4:57 p.m. PST
The Swiss DeMeuron Regiment	8	16 May 2025 12:02 a.m. PST
Allied Piquets at Minden	1	12 May 2025 3:49 a.m. PST
Matt varnish spray has wrecked my flags! Please help	26	10 May 2025 5:22 p.m. PST
Pikes in the '45	9	01 May 2025 2:20 a.m. PST
Duke of Kingston's Light Horse	1	24 Apr 2025 5:09 p.m. PST
Rising of the Clans First Playtest	1	20 Apr 2025 5:11 p.m. PST
SYW French drummer question	6	20 Apr 2025 2:06 p.m. PST
SYW Con upcoming	10	20 Apr 2025 10:15 a.m. PST
The end of the Rumyantsev war with Turkey and the...	3	19 Apr 2025 4:01 p.m. PST
Rising of the Clans After Action Report	1	13 Apr 2025 4:41 p.m. PST
1717-88. The Soldier Artificer Company.	6	08 Apr 2025 6:26 a.m. PST
Time to put an end to sabot bases?	15	07 Apr 2025 3:18 p.m. PST
Austrian Oak Leaves	11	07 Apr 2025 2:10 a.m. PST
Horse and musket period, why is it your favourite?	27	27 Mar 2025 2:59 p.m. PST
Completed: 17th Century Map of Germany	5	24 Mar 2025 12:10 p.m. PST
Culloden	8	19 Mar 2025 11:04 p.m. PST
So many women as soldiers in the British Army	12	08 Mar 2025 5:23 p.m. PST
The Last Battle of Madonna dell’Olmo	1	04 Mar 2025 4:17 p.m. PST
Black Powder for the SYW	14	28 Feb 2025 4:12 p.m. PST
Which version of Beneath the Lily Banners?	8	17 Feb 2025 7:31 p.m. PST
Piquet subsequent additions question	6	13 Feb 2025 9:13 p.m. PST
Total Battle Minis Earth Fort suitable for GNW?	3	13 Feb 2025 4:41 p.m. PST
HELP: info about Spanish Grenaderos Provinciales	2	04 Feb 2025 8:17 p.m. PST
Fusilier caps and Mitres in Flanders for Hesse-Kassel 1793	15	02 Feb 2025 3:28 p.m. PST
1744 Battle of Madonna dell'Olmo - Regiment Mallorca Alferez	5	01 Feb 2025 9:25 a.m. PST
1744 Battle of Madonna dell'Olmo - The Spanish Regiments	4	01 Feb 2025 5:49 a.m. PST
The Troubles of Command	3	29 Jan 2025 1:23 p.m. PST
stubby cannon in FIW what sizes	23	29 Jan 2025 8:24 a.m. PST
Added a corner to my table	10	22 Jan 2025 8:32 p.m. PST
does anybody know how french got to fort	3	18 Jan 2025 11:19 a.m. PST
AWI Playtest	7	09 Jan 2025 3:39 p.m. PST
Saxe-Gotha in the SYW	4	06 Jan 2025 11:49 a.m. PST
The army of Savoy-Piedmont - Die Armee von Piemont	1	04 Jan 2025 4:34 p.m. PST
Vaubanner Graphics still around?	9	01 Jan 2025 9:43 a.m. PST
Museums and Miniature Gaming	13	30 Dec 2024 10:30 a.m. PST
Merry Christmas from Gen. Pettygree and Bill P.	9	23 Dec 2024 4:18 p.m. PST
The ‘Iron Elephant’ — How a 17th Century German Inventor	1	22 Dec 2024 4:58 p.m. PST
New 1/72nd AWI miniatures.	3	21 Dec 2024 3:57 p.m. PST
The Life of a Pirate: What They Ate, What They Did for Fun	1	15 Dec 2024 4:47 p.m. PST
Horse Colors Explained	16	15 Dec 2024 2:01 a.m. PST
"Siege!" - a computer app for paperless Vauban sieges	6	11 Dec 2024 5:43 a.m. PST
Basic modification of figures	12	02 Dec 2024 10:03 a.m. PST
French and Indian war	10	27 Nov 2024 12:02 p.m. PST
American Militia in shirtsleeves Perry Brothers	3	26 Nov 2024 10:56 a.m. PST
Butler’s Rangers	3	09 Nov 2024 11:17 p.m. PST
Debunking the myths of the French Revolution	10	26 Oct 2024 3:55 p.m. PST
Did the Puritans Incite War to Capture Slaves?	7	18 Oct 2024 3:46 p.m. PST
What if...US France War 1865	15	16 Oct 2024 8:05 a.m. PST
The Complete Brigadier: Anyone still playing?	12	13 Oct 2024 1:44 p.m. PST
Khurasan and 15mm LOA miniatures	6	12 Oct 2024 11:00 p.m. PST
Prague 1757	3	07 Oct 2024 3:45 p.m. PST
Regimental Colours pre-1700	11	07 Oct 2024 9:38 a.m. PST
Loyalist Clans in the '45	8	04 Oct 2024 12:46 p.m. PST
After Action Report, playtesting new AWI rules	5	27 Sep 2024 9:48 a.m. PST
The Carolean death march	3	26 Sep 2024 4:04 p.m. PST
Shipments from "Sergeants Three"	5	24 Sep 2024 3:36 p.m. PST
Blackbeard's last action - Ocracoke	14	21 Sep 2024 6:56 a.m. PST
"National" character of "Austrian" Army	16	17 Sep 2024 2:33 p.m. PST
WSS: Some Notes on Rules Development, Including	5	14 Sep 2024 4:02 p.m. PST
Worst American Revolution Movie?	112	10 Sep 2024 3:00 p.m. PST
Black Powder versus Oathmark	10	25 Aug 2024 8:28 p.m. PST
Looking for 15mm Scottish Flags for the '45	5	25 Aug 2024 2:31 p.m. PST
Balanced Battle of the The '45?	9	24 Aug 2024 11:44 p.m. PST
Campus Martius in Marietta, Ohio	5	24 Aug 2024 5:07 a.m. PST
Frontiersman on Crutches?	8	17 Aug 2024 1:49 p.m. PST
Should we compare the French and American Revolutions?	19	14 Aug 2024 4:03 p.m. PST
All-Cavalry SYW War Game Report	10	14 Aug 2024 2:04 a.m. PST
1700 saddles	3	08 Aug 2024 12:01 p.m. PST
Dettingen and French Cavalry	1	08 Aug 2024 4:01 a.m. PST
GNW Review of the Allies	8	05 Aug 2024 8:37 a.m. PST
Black Powder rules for 18th century?	7	03 Aug 2024 5:05 p.m. PST
Dutch Guards for WSS	9	03 Aug 2024 6:15 a.m. PST
HO Scale German Half-Timbered Plastic Model Kits	11	29 Jul 2024 7:44 a.m. PST
'abc wargamers'	8	16 Jul 2024 11:46 p.m. PST
Russian SYW infantry gaiters	9	16 Jul 2024 2:55 a.m. PST
About Bourgogne Cavalerie	3	15 Jul 2024 5:03 p.m. PST
GMB flag website unavailable?	7	14 Jul 2024 9:31 a.m. PST
SYW/AWI Basing	13	06 Jul 2024 4:42 p.m. PST
How was the SYW con?	13	29 Jun 2024 7:36 p.m. PST
Zinnfiguren Armies gathers pace	1	28 Jun 2024 5:35 p.m. PST
Approaching Napoleonics	20	27 Jun 2024 2:58 a.m. PST
Frontier Soldiers of New France	14	26 Jun 2024 2:19 p.m. PST
Arabs late 18th early 19th century?	5	20 Jun 2024 9:52 p.m. PST
Remembering Kolin, 18 June, 1757	6	20 Jun 2024 6:04 p.m. PST
French Two Battalion Assault columns	1	13 Jun 2024 8:27 a.m. PST
Why did Edmund Burke call the French Revolution...	6	12 Jun 2024 8:12 p.m. PST
GNW Dragoons: sword knots?	1	10 Jun 2024 1:14 a.m. PST
Pyotr Petrovich Lassi. The youth of the commander	1	07 Jun 2024 4:49 p.m. PST