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Aerial wargaming - 1970s rules with Wings of Glory models	4	27 Feb 2026 2:40 p.m. PST
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The worst night in Australian military history: Fromelles	6	11 Feb 2026 10:38 p.m. PST
WW1 Meaux Museum Wargame Convention	7	02 Feb 2026 3:22 a.m. PST
FUBAR-1918 and using Chatgpt	4	01 Feb 2026 7:23 a.m. PST
Was the Hindenburg Line a failure?	18	26 Jan 2026 12:22 p.m. PST
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Defending Toledo, SCW, September 1936	3	04 Dec 2025 5:38 a.m. PST
The Stand of the Artillerymen at Eckmühl	3	30 Nov 2025 11:07 a.m. PST
Graphic novel tells story of World War I’s ‘most...	12	27 Nov 2025 4:48 a.m. PST
Revue of some WW1 rules	4	25 Nov 2025 1:04 p.m. PST
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WW1 Rule Idiotic & Useless…	1	25 Nov 2025 4:03 a.m. PST
Ruins for the Wargames Convention, at the WW1 Museum Meaux	1	20 Nov 2025 2:40 a.m. PST
First tank battle	2	15 Nov 2025 9:54 a.m. PST
Republican counter-attack at Trijueque Spain, March 1937	4	12 Nov 2025 9:12 a.m. PST
Lies told about World War I	10	28 Oct 2025 7:29 p.m. PST
Wings of Glory Resources	2	17 Oct 2025 1:29 p.m. PST
Carrizal (Mexico 1916) fictional 2nd battle	6	10 Oct 2025 1:05 p.m. PST
Des nouveaux effectifs pour les Balkans - le front...	1	30 Sep 2025 4:24 p.m. PST
Atapec, Morelos 1918	3	29 Sep 2025 4:11 a.m. PST
Straight from the horse’s mouth	6	27 Sep 2025 4:09 p.m. PST
More Anarchists and Poles for Partizan	6	25 Sep 2025 12:59 p.m. PST
Starring Pancho Villa	9	19 Sep 2025 5:05 p.m. PST
New Aerodrome(R) aerial combat board game	5	19 Sep 2025 8:17 a.m. PST
Mass Build Seven 1/72 Polikarpov I-15s	12	14 Sep 2025 9:59 p.m. PST
Handy-Billy?	9	12 Sep 2025 3:49 p.m. PST
Adding Some Pop to Shapeways Printed Aircraft	6	12 Sep 2025 10:41 a.m. PST
Prepping for Voss	3	12 Sep 2025 9:25 a.m. PST
Size of Skytrex WW1 vehicles	2	12 Sep 2025 9:06 a.m. PST
Planning RCW Game for Partizan Show	5	07 Sep 2025 2:50 p.m. PST
Cossacks in the Caucasus	5	07 Sep 2025 5:29 a.m. PST
Books on Austro-Hungarian empire in WW1?	11	16 Aug 2025 5:37 a.m. PST
The First Armenian Republic and Its Territorial...	1	15 Aug 2025 4:41 p.m. PST
War without boots	3	14 Aug 2025 10:10 p.m. PST
Destroying Barb wire via artillery	18	13 Aug 2025 2:34 p.m. PST
The Batle at Taxdirt, Morocco, Septmber 20, 1909	2	11 Aug 2025 11:29 p.m. PST
A Very British Civil War - rules?	13	22 Jul 2025 11:16 a.m. PST
Krupp 42 cm Haübitze / Mörser "Die dicke Bertha"	1	20 Jul 2025 4:17 p.m. PST
Bridge to be renamed after WWI hero	5	20 Jul 2025 2:07 p.m. PST
1909 Melilla (Morocco) Campaign	8	16 Jul 2025 8:11 a.m. PST
"Irgendwo im Nirgendwo" Westfront 1917	1	12 Jul 2025 4:45 p.m. PST
Trench Raider	5	09 Jul 2025 7:35 a.m. PST
Two Ends Of The WWI Western Front Trench Lines?	0	06 Jul 2025 7:59 p.m. PST
Vickers Machine Gun Colors in Africa and the Middle East	2	04 Jul 2025 9:12 a.m. PST
Great Escape, Kallistra, and Pendraken WW1 compatibility?	6	30 Jun 2025 5:29 a.m. PST
Der Grosse Krieg - WWI grand-tactical system 1914-1915	3	28 Jun 2025 5:51 a.m. PST
Best Historical Period That's Not Popular? SYW!	15	27 Jun 2025 4:47 p.m. PST
More 1920 Poles and Anarchists	8	27 Jun 2025 9:02 a.m. PST
Help with some figures needed.	6	20 Jun 2025 5:34 p.m. PST
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Auftragstaktik Leads to Decisive Action	14	08 Jun 2025 1:07 p.m. PST
Once More to Take the High Ground	2	17 May 2025 5:16 p.m. PST
28mm Mexican Army figures and proxies	8	07 May 2025 9:53 p.m. PST
Horses and Heavy Weapons	3	07 May 2025 7:45 p.m. PST
First pics of Sir Peter Jackson's massive Gallipoli diorama	26	04 May 2025 12:16 p.m. PST
Book recommendations for WWI period ??	11	22 Apr 2025 6:23 p.m. PST
Primer vuelo del prototipo DFW T28 “Floh”	1	20 Apr 2025 4:48 p.m. PST
Little Wars - AQMF	4	19 Apr 2025 8:00 p.m. PST
Rapid Fire WW1	3	09 Apr 2025 5:25 a.m. PST
The Real “No-Go Zone” of France: A Forbidden	10	31 Mar 2025 4:08 p.m. PST
Next for Bolt Action? Spanish Civil War!	10	31 Mar 2025 10:26 a.m. PST
Scouts Out! Great War on the Western Front	6	29 Mar 2025 12:52 p.m. PST
Daimler-Krupp Plattformwagen "Sturmkanonen" c.1919	5	27 Mar 2025 3:56 p.m. PST
The defence and evacuation of Sdi Dris, Morocco 1921	10	26 Mar 2025 4:33 a.m. PST
Magister Militum 10mm now available from Baccus	7	21 Mar 2025 12:30 p.m. PST
The Battle of Montcel-Frétoy — History’s Last Fight	1	15 Mar 2025 5:06 p.m. PST
Paul von Hindenburg - hero or villain?	1	12 Mar 2025 5:05 p.m. PST
Daimler-Krupp Plattformwagen "Sturmkanonen", c. 1919	4	28 Feb 2025 4:00 p.m. PST
Could the Webley revolver be fired with either hand?	1	24 Feb 2025 11:05 a.m. PST
August 1919: Battle of the White Verdun	1	21 Feb 2025 5:09 p.m. PST
Northern Rhodesia Rifles WW1	7	19 Feb 2025 3:54 p.m. PST
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the trenches of the Col du Linge museum	1	04 Feb 2025 12:31 a.m. PST
The British Army paper soldiers	1	26 Jan 2025 5:01 p.m. PST
Weird Weapons And Other Surprising Objects...	3	23 Jan 2025 3:52 p.m. PST
1918: Spring Offensive and Advance to Victory	1	04 Jan 2025 4:24 p.m. PST
Why Cavalry Reconnaissance Failed in August 1914	9	04 Jan 2025 4:23 p.m. PST
Cavalry bugles; when obsolete?	10	02 Jan 2025 5:23 a.m. PST
Need rules to play 1914 battles in France	13	31 Dec 2024 2:00 p.m. PST
Museums and Miniature Gaming	13	30 Dec 2024 10:30 a.m. PST
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Verdun 1916 with Funny Little Wars	6	28 Dec 2024 11:12 a.m. PST
1919-20 Poles	8	27 Dec 2024 12:18 p.m. PST
During World War I, the French Built a “Fake Paris”	1	25 Dec 2024 5:13 p.m. PST
Wippet 1918.	6	22 Dec 2024 4:00 p.m. PST
The Schlieffen Plan explained	5	22 Dec 2024 3:57 p.m. PST
Music and Entertainment in the Trenches	3	21 Dec 2024 3:57 p.m. PST
Miniature ID	5	18 Dec 2024 7:03 a.m. PST
A Nieuport's tale	1	14 Dec 2024 5:08 p.m. PST