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Flags of the Irish Catholic Confederation	14	13 Oct 2024 9:29 a.m. PST
Sir James Dillon's Regiment of Foot	8	11 Oct 2024 12:10 p.m. PST
Royalist or Roundhead ?	53	06 Oct 2024 10:46 a.m. PST
Almost Cropredy Bridge ; An ECW scenario set in Kelhamshire	3	18 Sep 2024 3:55 p.m. PST
Frontage and firepower queries	9	17 Sep 2024 4:40 a.m. PST
1643 Wales – English Civil War Campaign	3	05 Sep 2024 4:02 p.m. PST
ECW Scottish	8	03 Sep 2024 10:22 a.m. PST
Best Civil War to game.	40	01 Sep 2024 2:00 a.m. PST
ECW Travelogue updates	4	27 Aug 2024 10:27 a.m. PST
Celtic Baggage Train part 2	10	25 Aug 2024 2:20 a.m. PST
FK&P AAR: Laundry Day	3	13 Aug 2024 3:51 p.m. PST
Taking Wargames on Manuevers, last try	5	10 Aug 2024 4:22 a.m. PST
So You Want to Know About the Armies of the Associations	3	06 Aug 2024 2:29 p.m. PST
Paint pens for kilts?	12	01 Aug 2024 6:53 p.m. PST
Lurkio 15mm ECW range review	5	30 Jul 2024 3:18 a.m. PST
Which figures? Size matters 15mm ECW cavalry	11	26 Jul 2024 12:25 p.m. PST
Which figures? Size matters 15mm ECW foot	6	26 Jul 2024 12:00 p.m. PST
Which Figures? What is available in 15mm ECW	11	26 Jul 2024 11:36 a.m. PST
Battle of Ballinvegga 18 March 1643	5	23 Jul 2024 11:18 a.m. PST
So You Want To Know About the Army, Newly Modelled?	1	21 Jul 2024 10:20 p.m. PST
So You Want to Know About the Army of the Earl of Essex	4	15 Jul 2024 10:15 a.m. PST
Edgehill play test for FPPS	7	12 Jul 2024 11:41 a.m. PST
The Wicker Man	11	09 Jul 2024 12:29 p.m. PST
BCW Project & BCW Regimental Wiki - Can anyone help?	15	07 Jul 2024 6:47 a.m. PST
Observations on my Warlords Epic Pike & Shotte	3	01 Jul 2024 7:47 a.m. PST
Free pike and shot rules on my blog	13	29 Jun 2024 6:35 p.m. PST
Kings of War Historical for ECW and 30YW?	3	23 Jun 2024 4:14 p.m. PST
Help re: Spring's new C17th Clothing Book (Helion)	2	18 Jun 2024 2:39 p.m. PST
A prison wagon for Witchfinder General	8	17 Jun 2024 9:14 p.m. PST
18mm ECW Oxford and Apsley's Regiment of Foot	5	14 Jun 2024 3:38 p.m. PST
Colonel Ruari McGuire's Regiment of Foot	4	11 Jun 2024 4:08 p.m. PST
Coat Colours Part 4: dragoons, horse and the New Model Army	16	06 Jun 2024 10:11 a.m. PST
Royalist coat colours	37	06 Jun 2024 10:09 a.m. PST
Starting to build a 28mm 30YW Army	4	05 Jun 2024 12:48 p.m. PST
How did pike protect shot in the 1630's - 1640's?	7	02 Jun 2024 3:11 p.m. PST
Sir Phelim macShane O’Neill's Regiment of Foot	6	30 May 2024 10:45 a.m. PST
The most complete book on ECW battles ?	26	26 May 2024 7:12 a.m. PST
"Cavaliers and Roundheads" by Gygax and Perren?	19	26 May 2024 6:40 a.m. PST
Kilrush ~ 15 April 1642	5	15 May 2024 12:40 p.m. PST
Scottish Baggage	7	15 May 2024 11:11 a.m. PST
Why were Royalist horse so unreliable in the ECW?	11	12 May 2024 10:35 a.m. PST
Pikes - useful at all outside "big battle" situations?	13	10 May 2024 7:11 a.m. PST
15mm Victory without Quarter.	1	07 May 2024 4:45 p.m. PST
Epic Cavalry and my preferred option for spears/standards	1	06 May 2024 4:47 p.m. PST
Looking for connoisseurs of ECW uniforms and outfits	47	04 May 2024 1:14 a.m. PST
BBC Radio 4 Real Dictators	2	02 May 2024 2:13 a.m. PST
More Royalist horse	3	23 Apr 2024 3:37 p.m. PST
"They determined to repulse fyer by fier"...	1	16 Apr 2024 5:14 p.m. PST
Celtic Soul Brothers	5	16 Apr 2024 10:08 a.m. PST
When did musketeers abandon musket rests?	7	15 Apr 2024 10:15 a.m. PST
English Civil War buildings	3	14 Apr 2024 2:25 p.m. PST
My first 28mm ECW Cavalry miniature finished	13	14 Apr 2024 7:45 a.m. PST
Preferred scale for ECW?	22	13 Apr 2024 11:52 a.m. PST
MARS REDUX ECW skirmish rules by Redoubt miniatures	3	09 Apr 2024 1:49 p.m. PST
Solo gaming rules	12	31 Mar 2024 6:48 p.m. PST
"Epic" Pike and Shotte for One Hour Wargames	9	27 Mar 2024 3:56 p.m. PST
ECW - John Lambert's Rising, 1660	2	26 Mar 2024 10:36 a.m. PST
If there are specialists in ...	12	17 Mar 2024 11:51 p.m. PST
Firelocks	4	12 Mar 2024 5:48 p.m. PST
The Battle of Hopetoun; a fictional ECWgame	9	12 Mar 2024 5:40 p.m. PST
These rules won't work	10	10 Mar 2024 1:31 p.m. PST
Scenarios for ECW skirmishes?	17	29 Feb 2024 7:11 a.m. PST
Earl of Castlehaven’s Regiment of Horse	4	27 Feb 2024 11:24 a.m. PST
Stratton: a Polemos ECW refight	3	22 Feb 2024 11:49 a.m. PST
15/18mm figures ECW ranges	10	11 Feb 2024 12:00 a.m. PST
Errors in the De Bellis Renationis Army Lists?	15	08 Feb 2024 3:14 a.m. PST
The problem with regimental guns	19	06 Feb 2024 8:14 a.m. PST
Covenanters In Action	7	29 Jan 2024 12:58 p.m. PST
Steel Fist cavalry on foot	4	23 Jan 2024 9:43 a.m. PST
Civil War mystery solved	6	13 Jan 2024 3:41 p.m. PST
Re-organising my Pike & Shot regiments	12	12 Jan 2024 8:16 a.m. PST
Baggage Trains	8	06 Jan 2024 2:33 p.m. PST
Toy Soldiers and Dining Room Battles 15th Year Anniversary	7	04 Jan 2024 2:15 p.m. PST
Mounted hood up cloaked 15mm figure wanted	9	30 Dec 2023 10:16 a.m. PST
Cannons for the Irish Catholic Confederacy	4	28 Dec 2023 9:13 a.m. PST
KeepYourPowderDry is 6	11	26 Dec 2023 11:51 p.m. PST
Things you probably didn't know about sieges	2	26 Dec 2023 11:30 a.m. PST
Pike & Shotte Epic Battles: Designer’s Notes	11	24 Dec 2023 7:01 p.m. PST
Pike and shot: how did it really work?	36	18 Dec 2023 11:17 a.m. PST
Big Bash at Bisham Abbey	1	15 Dec 2023 5:19 p.m. PST
Earl of Carnarvon’s Regiment of Horse	3	01 Dec 2023 3:45 p.m. PST
Captain John Mortimer’s Troop of Dragoons	8	30 Nov 2023 5:42 p.m. PST
And so it begins	6	25 Nov 2023 6:47 a.m. PST
Battle of Middleton Cheney, 6th May 1643	3	22 Nov 2023 11:53 a.m. PST
Solo decision cards for ECW wargaming	1	21 Nov 2023 8:54 p.m. PST
The Highland onset or charge	11	20 Nov 2023 9:55 a.m. PST
Parliamentarian Commanders of the English Civil Wars	1	16 Nov 2023 8:52 p.m. PST
Ulster Wargames Society - Pike and Shotte ECW game	1	14 Nov 2023 8:51 p.m. PST
Scots musket/pike ratios	7	11 Nov 2023 5:22 a.m. PST
compatibility of bicorne miniatures ECW with Perry/Foundry?	11	09 Nov 2023 4:39 a.m. PST
Captain Blackadder - Montrose’s Scoutmaster-General	12	09 Nov 2023 2:36 a.m. PST
Epic Scots Review	14	08 Nov 2023 11:12 a.m. PST
Refight of the Battle of Knocknannus - Conclusion	3	08 Nov 2023 9:36 a.m. PST
Refight of the Battle of Knocknannus - part 1	5	07 Nov 2023 11:17 a.m. PST
Colonel Richard O’Farrell’s Regiment of Foot	4	07 Nov 2023 8:19 a.m. PST
ECW Wargaming Unit Sizes	7	06 Nov 2023 1:01 a.m. PST
Scots Cavalry choices or lack of ?	2	03 Nov 2023 12:03 p.m. PST
Bloody Miniatures: Second Wave Painted	3	01 Nov 2023 3:23 p.m. PST
A heads up: Epic Scots	5	29 Oct 2023 5:14 a.m. PST
Head Swapping	13	29 Oct 2023 1:13 a.m. PST