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ACW 1 to 1 skirmish rules	5	26 Mar 2025 6:05 p.m. PST
Would the American Civil War have ended differently	21	26 Mar 2025 4:06 p.m. PST
The Home Front in the South	1	26 Mar 2025 11:44 a.m. PST
What Civil War Legions can you field?	10	25 Mar 2025 9:38 a.m. PST
Horse and musket period, why is it your favourite?	26	25 Mar 2025 1:43 a.m. PST
Original Brigade Fire & Fury on a budget!	7	24 Mar 2025 7:25 p.m. PST
Some Confederate Command Stands	5	24 Mar 2025 8:40 a.m. PST
Inspired by American Heritage!	13	23 Mar 2025 4:44 p.m. PST
Petersburg: The Wearing down of Lee's Army	3	22 Mar 2025 3:55 p.m. PST
Crossing large rivers- gaming??	12	21 Mar 2025 9:58 a.m. PST
Army Characteristics in Wargames	9	21 Mar 2025 6:18 a.m. PST
Union Horse Batteries - 3in Rifles ?	17	20 Mar 2025 5:12 p.m. PST
Karl Marx and the American Civil War	17	16 Mar 2025 7:39 p.m. PST
Sayings from ACW Era we still use today	11	16 Mar 2025 2:05 p.m. PST
Battle of Stones River (Murfreesboro)	10	15 Mar 2025 4:04 p.m. PST
Siege Guns and Heavy Artillery in 15mm/1:100 scale?	7	14 Mar 2025 6:02 a.m. PST
Inducing Southerners to Desert in 1865	4	11 Mar 2025 3:51 p.m. PST
In Photos: Burying the Hatchet at the 1913 ...	3	10 Mar 2025 3:40 p.m. PST
Please help Christy Brom	69	06 Mar 2025 9:15 a.m. PST
Fading GMB Flags - advice on how to avoid?	13	01 Mar 2025 9:05 p.m. PST
Antietam Video: Hooker's Attack table set up	5	22 Feb 2025 7:33 p.m. PST
Seek playtesters for set of RPG / skirmish rules for 1855-65	8	19 Feb 2025 5:25 p.m. PST
Figure ID? 20mm ACW Confederate	14	19 Feb 2025 12:57 p.m. PST
Rebel Fury by GMT and Mark Herman	3	18 Feb 2025 3:55 p.m. PST
Hamilton anticipates the war?	8	17 Feb 2025 12:48 p.m. PST
Fort Bragg as Fort Liberty?	56	12 Feb 2025 8:59 a.m. PST
Confederate Soldiers in the Siege of Petersburg	2	10 Feb 2025 4:40 p.m. PST
Regimental Fire & Fury - Project Finale!	7	07 Feb 2025 3:48 p.m. PST
Canada’s Civil War	7	07 Feb 2025 1:26 p.m. PST
The whole Seven Days Battles (ACW) in one game	7	05 Feb 2025 9:03 p.m. PST
15mm ACW project SHILOH Order of Battle painting completed	3	31 Jan 2025 4:09 p.m. PST
Walldürn - The ACW in Germany	6	23 Jan 2025 3:53 p.m. PST
Was George Thomas Slow?	22	23 Jan 2025 10:07 a.m. PST
Manufactured History?: Study Exposes Conflict Of Myth	11	22 Jan 2025 3:53 p.m. PST
Why this caregiver was allowed to follow her husband	4	21 Jan 2025 3:59 p.m. PST
A Gettysburg Refight	3	18 Jan 2025 3:33 p.m. PST
Hard to stop once it's started!	12	09 Jan 2025 2:56 p.m. PST
rail roads	8	08 Jan 2025 12:10 a.m. PST
How to make a good game out of Cold Harbor?	12	06 Jan 2025 6:21 p.m. PST
Native Americans: A Study of Their Civil War Experience	1	04 Jan 2025 4:23 p.m. PST
black powder rules movement	8	01 Jan 2025 3:57 a.m. PST
black powder rules movement - thanks!	2	30 Dec 2024 10:15 a.m. PST
ACW Barn 1/32 Scale	10	27 Dec 2024 6:17 p.m. PST
WIP ACW wagons and artillery	5	25 Dec 2024 1:30 p.m. PST
Cavalry Casualties - An explanation ...	4	24 Dec 2024 4:04 p.m. PST
ACW Generals	11	20 Dec 2024 6:08 p.m. PST
Brigade Fire and Fury Basing Question	14	20 Dec 2024 4:58 a.m. PST
ACW tourism: Nashville to Atlanta	7	17 Dec 2024 2:28 p.m. PST
Opinions wanted, ACW guns	11	17 Dec 2024 6:25 a.m. PST
ACW guns update and the Iron Brigade	3	16 Dec 2024 8:29 a.m. PST
Camp Douglas 1864 Conspiracy	5	10 Dec 2024 4:51 p.m. PST
Saving Major McCook: William Surles at Perryville	1	06 Dec 2024 4:48 p.m. PST
Pickett's Charge.	10	03 Dec 2024 3:42 p.m. PST
18th Mississippi (First Corps and Dixon Minis)	5	02 Dec 2024 7:45 a.m. PST
were flanking brigades of skirmishers formed?	14	02 Dec 2024 4:07 a.m. PST
James Rifles	11	27 Nov 2024 1:38 p.m. PST
Fort Negley's History	3	26 Nov 2024 5:31 p.m. PST
The Civil War and Revolutions in Naval Affairs...	7	25 Nov 2024 4:01 p.m. PST
Battle of New Bern: North Carolina 14th March 1862	3	25 Nov 2024 3:58 p.m. PST
New Casualty Figures for the War	7	22 Nov 2024 5:52 p.m. PST
Did the Southern Press Have a Negative Effect	11	22 Nov 2024 9:39 a.m. PST
Top 10 Chilling Civil War Stories	1	21 Nov 2024 5:03 p.m. PST
Brigade F & F QRS for 20mm?	6	20 Nov 2024 12:33 p.m. PST
Does anyone use Brother Against Brother rules anymore?	8	18 Nov 2024 6:12 p.m. PST
Troup Hurt House in 10/15mm	6	18 Nov 2024 2:01 p.m. PST
essential elements in an ACW wargames rule set?	38	18 Nov 2024 7:12 a.m. PST
essential ACW rules suggestions here now please!	8	18 Nov 2024 5:19 a.m. PST
Harriet Tubman awarded posthumous rank of general	20	15 Nov 2024 3:20 a.m. PST
Major Dundee--what happened to him afterwards?	37	08 Nov 2024 2:14 p.m. PST
Tassels on Confederate flag finials???	9	07 Nov 2024 7:04 p.m. PST
Remains of nearly 30 Civil War veterans found	5	05 Nov 2024 10:20 a.m. PST
Not-so-obvious Advice for a First Game	12	04 Nov 2024 8:42 a.m. PST
Longstreet over Lee???	47	31 Oct 2024 1:39 p.m. PST
Trove of 700 Civil War-Era Gold Coins Discovered	3	28 Oct 2024 4:01 p.m. PST
Corps flags??	15	27 Oct 2024 9:08 a.m. PST
Casualty Markers for Black Powder or other games.	11	25 Oct 2024 1:41 p.m. PST
union regimental flags, eagle finial used on...?	4	22 Oct 2024 5:29 p.m. PST
What are polka style jackets?	12	19 Oct 2024 5:28 a.m. PST
Lew Wallace at Shiloh	13	18 Oct 2024 5:15 p.m. PST
Forgotten Civil War veteran to get proper tombstone	6	17 Oct 2024 10:50 a.m. PST
Does anyone remember...	5	16 Oct 2024 11:41 a.m. PST
What if...US France War 1865	15	16 Oct 2024 8:05 a.m. PST
Stephen Hurlbut and the Quest for Redemption	4	15 Oct 2024 3:56 p.m. PST
Dixon Miniatures American Civil War - 4th Virginia...	11	14 Oct 2024 4:40 p.m. PST
The Complete Brigadier: Anyone still playing?	12	13 Oct 2024 1:44 p.m. PST
Antietam - 54mm Battle	11	10 Oct 2024 4:05 p.m. PST
1/72 Gettysburg-Projekt	6	10 Oct 2024 3:53 p.m. PST
If Grant had been drinking at Appomattox	9	09 Oct 2024 10:07 a.m. PST
Fields of Corn & Rye	5	09 Oct 2024 10:04 a.m. PST
Antietam, 1862...	12	07 Oct 2024 9:10 a.m. PST
Across A Deadly Field - Shiloh Dawn	1	06 Oct 2024 1:42 p.m. PST
Causes of the Civil War?	134	02 Oct 2024 2:31 p.m. PST
Valour and Fortitude Rules, Oct. 2024 now posted	3	30 Sep 2024 3:38 a.m. PST
28mm VMI cadets?	5	28 Sep 2024 2:30 p.m. PST
Shipments from "Sergeants Three"	5	24 Sep 2024 3:36 p.m. PST
irrepressible conflict?	52	22 Sep 2024 8:17 a.m. PST
Britains civilians, down on the farm.	1	21 Sep 2024 5:10 p.m. PST
on the tearing down of statues	95	19 Sep 2024 1:35 p.m. PST
Question about a tactical formation	8	19 Sep 2024 10:57 a.m. PST
Sibley and the U.S.-Dakota War of 1862	4	18 Sep 2024 8:37 p.m. PST