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AWI Playtest	7	09 Jan 2025 2:39 p.m. PST
Saxe-Gotha in the SYW	4	06 Jan 2025 10:49 a.m. PST
The army of Savoy-Piedmont - Die Armee von Piemont	1	04 Jan 2025 3:34 p.m. PST
Vaubanner Graphics still around?	9	01 Jan 2025 8:43 a.m. PST
Museums and Miniature Gaming	13	30 Dec 2024 9:30 a.m. PST
Merry Christmas from Gen. Pettygree and Bill P.	9	23 Dec 2024 3:18 p.m. PST
The ‘Iron Elephant’ — How a 17th Century German Inventor	1	22 Dec 2024 3:58 p.m. PST
New 1/72nd AWI miniatures.	3	21 Dec 2024 2:57 p.m. PST
The Life of a Pirate: What They Ate, What They Did for Fun	1	15 Dec 2024 3:47 p.m. PST
Horse Colors Explained	16	15 Dec 2024 1:01 a.m. PST
"Siege!" - a computer app for paperless Vauban sieges	6	11 Dec 2024 4:43 a.m. PST
Basic modification of figures	12	02 Dec 2024 9:03 a.m. PST
French and Indian war	10	27 Nov 2024 11:02 a.m. PST
American Militia in shirtsleeves Perry Brothers	3	26 Nov 2024 9:56 a.m. PST
Butler’s Rangers	3	09 Nov 2024 10:17 p.m. PST
Debunking the myths of the French Revolution	10	26 Oct 2024 2:55 p.m. PST
Did the Puritans Incite War to Capture Slaves?	7	18 Oct 2024 2:46 p.m. PST
What if...US France War 1865	15	16 Oct 2024 7:05 a.m. PST
The Complete Brigadier: Anyone still playing?	12	13 Oct 2024 12:44 p.m. PST
Khurasan and 15mm LOA miniatures	6	12 Oct 2024 10:00 p.m. PST
Fusilier caps and Mitres in Flanders for Hesse-Kassel 1793	14	07 Oct 2024 3:02 p.m. PST
Prague 1757	3	07 Oct 2024 2:45 p.m. PST
Regimental Colours pre-1700	11	07 Oct 2024 8:38 a.m. PST
Loyalist Clans in the '45	8	04 Oct 2024 11:46 a.m. PST
After Action Report, playtesting new AWI rules	5	27 Sep 2024 8:48 a.m. PST
The Carolean death march	3	26 Sep 2024 3:04 p.m. PST
Shipments from "Sergeants Three"	5	24 Sep 2024 2:36 p.m. PST
Blackbeard's last action - Ocracoke	14	21 Sep 2024 5:56 a.m. PST
Black Powder for the SYW	8	21 Sep 2024 1:43 a.m. PST
"National" character of "Austrian" Army	16	17 Sep 2024 1:33 p.m. PST
WSS: Some Notes on Rules Development, Including	5	14 Sep 2024 3:02 p.m. PST
Time to put an end to sabot bases?	14	11 Sep 2024 4:31 a.m. PST
Worst American Revolution Movie?	112	10 Sep 2024 2:00 p.m. PST
FIW Historical Fiction Novels	17	27 Aug 2024 9:32 p.m. PST
Black Powder versus Oathmark	10	25 Aug 2024 7:28 p.m. PST
Looking for 15mm Scottish Flags for the '45	5	25 Aug 2024 1:31 p.m. PST
Balanced Battle of the The '45?	9	24 Aug 2024 10:44 p.m. PST
Campus Martius in Marietta, Ohio	5	24 Aug 2024 4:07 a.m. PST
Frontiersman on Crutches?	8	17 Aug 2024 12:49 p.m. PST
Should we compare the French and American Revolutions?	19	14 Aug 2024 3:03 p.m. PST
All-Cavalry SYW War Game Report	10	14 Aug 2024 1:04 a.m. PST
1700 saddles	3	08 Aug 2024 11:01 a.m. PST
Dettingen and French Cavalry	1	08 Aug 2024 3:01 a.m. PST
GNW Review of the Allies	8	05 Aug 2024 7:37 a.m. PST
Black Powder rules for 18th century?	7	03 Aug 2024 4:05 p.m. PST
Dutch Guards for WSS	9	03 Aug 2024 5:15 a.m. PST
HO Scale German Half-Timbered Plastic Model Kits	11	29 Jul 2024 6:44 a.m. PST
'abc wargamers'	8	16 Jul 2024 10:46 p.m. PST
Russian SYW infantry gaiters	9	16 Jul 2024 1:55 a.m. PST
About Bourgogne Cavalerie	3	15 Jul 2024 4:03 p.m. PST
GMB flag website unavailable?	7	14 Jul 2024 8:31 a.m. PST
SYW/AWI Basing	13	06 Jul 2024 3:42 p.m. PST
How was the SYW con?	13	29 Jun 2024 6:36 p.m. PST
Zinnfiguren Armies gathers pace	1	28 Jun 2024 4:35 p.m. PST
Approaching Napoleonics	20	27 Jun 2024 1:58 a.m. PST
Frontier Soldiers of New France	14	26 Jun 2024 1:19 p.m. PST
Guibert's so-called 'column of attack'	273	23 Jun 2024 9:51 p.m. PST
Arabs late 18th early 19th century?	5	20 Jun 2024 8:52 p.m. PST
Remembering Kolin, 18 June, 1757	6	20 Jun 2024 5:04 p.m. PST
French Two Battalion Assault columns	1	13 Jun 2024 7:27 a.m. PST
Why did Edmund Burke call the French Revolution...	6	12 Jun 2024 7:12 p.m. PST
GNW Dragoons: sword knots?	1	10 Jun 2024 12:14 a.m. PST
Pyotr Petrovich Lassi. The youth of the commander	1	07 Jun 2024 3:49 p.m. PST
Computational Combat Statistics	1	02 Jun 2024 3:13 p.m. PST
Did you know ?	19	01 Jun 2024 10:26 p.m. PST
I Salute Bastille Day to all those who care.	28	28 May 2024 1:30 p.m. PST
Flag Dude Still in Business?	11	26 May 2024 12:33 p.m. PST
Figures for Hessian troops during the WAS.	30	26 May 2024 9:18 a.m. PST
Infantry of the United Provinces army of the Netherlands ...	26	26 May 2024 9:12 a.m. PST
The Bavarians at the Battle of Rocoux 1746 ...	33	26 May 2024 8:14 a.m. PST
What are the differences between the British ...	15	26 May 2024 8:13 a.m. PST
Figures for the Spanish army for the 18th century.	12	26 May 2024 7:06 a.m. PST
Rule specifically for the SYW or the WAS?	19	26 May 2024 5:51 a.m. PST
Platoon fire ...	21	26 May 2024 5:39 a.m. PST
Firearm Development in the Renaissance	1	26 May 2024 4:09 a.m. PST
Paper for 15mm flags	12	26 May 2024 2:39 a.m. PST
Assessing Victory Conditions	5	25 May 2024 2:50 p.m. PST
Whig or Tory ?	41	23 May 2024 10:45 p.m. PST
PlayAlmansa España	3	15 May 2024 2:42 p.m. PST
Muskets on right or left shoulder?	7	14 May 2024 9:30 a.m. PST
Painted 300 British, Army Painter Speedpaint WARNING!	21	03 May 2024 10:42 a.m. PST
Almansa 1707 - 2mm Spanish Chuch	1	24 Apr 2024 4:20 p.m. PST
Our latest game of Black Powder	2	17 Apr 2024 12:31 p.m. PST
Changes in warfare in the 16th and 17th centuries	3	14 Apr 2024 2:16 p.m. PST
Blog Update: An overdue update Part 1...	3	11 Apr 2024 12:17 p.m. PST
WSS French sergeants and their halbards	3	09 Apr 2024 6:00 a.m. PST
Revising Fire and Discipline & others..need input	9	07 Apr 2024 10:25 a.m. PST
Dropping usable weapons and running away	44	05 Apr 2024 5:12 p.m. PST
Whattya looking to buy at the 7YW convention?	4	01 Apr 2024 9:23 a.m. PST
English Carriage Miniatures?	13	31 Mar 2024 9:02 a.m. PST
15mm Gunstock war club	7	30 Mar 2024 7:22 p.m. PST
warfare.tk & warfare.gq	2	28 Mar 2024 5:53 a.m. PST
WSS French Infantry Organization	4	26 Mar 2024 5:48 p.m. PST
AWII Sharp Practice AAR	9	19 Mar 2024 3:44 a.m. PST
Building Armies in 6mm using Heroics & Ros Miniatures	11	12 Mar 2024 11:00 a.m. PST
You are not really dressed until you are wearing a hat	12	10 Mar 2024 2:20 p.m. PST
Duchy of Warsaw Hussars	10	04 Mar 2024 10:54 a.m. PST
Tipu, the Citizen-Sultan and the Myth of a Jacobin ...	1	25 Feb 2024 5:31 p.m. PST
4 US Presidents Who Were War Heroes	13	22 Feb 2024 7:28 p.m. PST
Some British naval scenery for the tabletop	13	22 Feb 2024 8:38 a.m. PST