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WW1 Rule Idiotic & Useless…	1	25 Nov 2025 3:03 a.m. PST
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Cossacks in the Caucasus	5	07 Sep 2025 4:29 a.m. PST
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War without boots	3	14 Aug 2025 9:10 p.m. PST
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The Batle at Taxdirt, Morocco, Septmber 20, 1909	2	11 Aug 2025 10:29 p.m. PST
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Bridge to be renamed after WWI hero	5	20 Jul 2025 1:07 p.m. PST
1909 Melilla (Morocco) Campaign	8	16 Jul 2025 7:11 a.m. PST
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Two Ends Of The WWI Western Front Trench Lines?	0	06 Jul 2025 6:59 p.m. PST
Vickers Machine Gun Colors in Africa and the Middle East	2	04 Jul 2025 8:12 a.m. PST
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28mm Mexican Army figures and proxies	8	07 May 2025 8:53 p.m. PST
Horses and Heavy Weapons	3	07 May 2025 6:45 p.m. PST
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Daimler-Krupp Plattformwagen "Sturmkanonen" c.1919	5	27 Mar 2025 2:56 p.m. PST
The defence and evacuation of Sdi Dris, Morocco 1921	10	26 Mar 2025 3:33 a.m. PST
Magister Militum 10mm now available from Baccus	7	21 Mar 2025 11:30 a.m. PST
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Daimler-Krupp Plattformwagen "Sturmkanonen", c. 1919	4	28 Feb 2025 3:00 p.m. PST
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the trenches of the Col du Linge museum	1	03 Feb 2025 11:31 p.m. PST
The British Army paper soldiers	1	26 Jan 2025 4:01 p.m. PST
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French 28mm WWI metal figures from Great War Miniatures	7	07 Nov 2024 7:13 a.m. PST
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First World War British platoon in 28mm	9	01 Nov 2024 2:04 a.m. PST
The Failed Establishment of "the Workers' Paradise	1	26 Oct 2024 3:49 p.m. PST
No Second Balkan War & July Crisis	2	09 Oct 2024 6:45 p.m. PST
German Battlecruisers	6	08 Oct 2024 10:04 a.m. PST
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