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Village design - The tough one	18	29 Sep 2023 8:03 a.m. PST
Designers Notes	11	22 Sep 2023 8:29 a.m. PST
Looking for an international Playtest Team	8	18 Sep 2023 2:06 a.m. PST
Best Osprey Rules? Lion Rampant!	8	31 Aug 2023 9:18 a.m. PST
Rulesets That Deserve a New Edition?	49	30 Aug 2023 11:20 a.m. PST
Command Segments per Game?	11	15 Aug 2023 10:10 a.m. PST
historical imagination	25	15 Aug 2023 5:09 a.m. PST
Wargaming Without Dice	109	13 Aug 2023 5:58 p.m. PST
A participation game	11	09 Aug 2023 8:09 a.m. PST
NPCs	4	09 Aug 2023 5:33 a.m. PST
Skirmish C2? You give it a 5.	1	07 Aug 2023 9:44 p.m. PST
The advantages of fighting in the mancave	4	06 Aug 2023 12:00 p.m. PST
Creating customisable hilly terrain	12	31 Jul 2023 9:59 a.m. PST
A Compendium of Wargaming Terms	47	20 Jul 2023 9:16 p.m. PST
41/42 armour penetration table	21	19 Jul 2023 10:55 a.m. PST
How did 4'x6' become the 'standard' table?	68	08 Jul 2023 2:33 p.m. PST
Divisional Level World War II Rules	41	07 Jul 2023 10:02 p.m. PST
Sea Strike - a 1973 wargaming gem	20	04 Jul 2023 10:47 p.m. PST
Chance Cards	20	03 Jul 2023 6:40 a.m. PST
On the Nature of Rules	11	02 Jul 2023 8:16 p.m. PST
Observation/spotting rules , your favourite system	21	02 Jul 2023 11:20 a.m. PST
will you stay or will you go?	55	26 Jun 2023 9:30 a.m. PST
AI	15	25 Jun 2023 8:18 a.m. PST
Card Draw Rearguard?	5	10 Jun 2023 7:09 p.m. PST
What makes something a "wargame?"	41	07 Jun 2023 1:02 p.m. PST
Do you write your own rules?	56	27 May 2023 11:36 a.m. PST
What rules would you describe as 'Crunchy'	32	16 May 2023 3:21 p.m. PST
Kingmaker II - new YouTube film	19	08 May 2023 3:26 p.m. PST
An overview of Optio	11	05 May 2023 3:36 a.m. PST
How to make a fun game out of a frontal assault on redoubts?	21	01 May 2023 2:27 p.m. PST
Can simulated fog of war replace dice?	134	28 Apr 2023 1:46 p.m. PST
What physical innovations revolutionised your wargaming?	37	18 Apr 2023 3:13 a.m. PST
Slowing Down the Game (2)	20	13 Apr 2023 11:05 a.m. PST
Guess which Napoleonic rules...	18	28 Mar 2023 3:23 a.m. PST
How do you handle invisible figures?	10	28 Mar 2023 3:15 a.m. PST
Pre-measuring?	52	19 Mar 2023 3:52 p.m. PST
Handy Tokens	1	15 Mar 2023 8:06 p.m. PST
Favorite rulesets - Tractics, Easy Eight, Adv Tobruck	28	15 Mar 2023 7:14 p.m. PST
Great War resources	7	10 Mar 2023 2:59 a.m. PST
Gaming with marked out tables	17	05 Mar 2023 2:50 a.m. PST
Are wargamers control freaks?	25	25 Feb 2023 8:51 a.m. PST
How do you define a game	19	20 Feb 2023 9:50 a.m. PST
PhD in Wargaming	16	07 Feb 2023 3:41 a.m. PST
Tony Bath's Hyborian Campaign	49	01 Feb 2023 2:34 p.m. PST
Probability on D6 (new,)	19	21 Jan 2023 8:29 p.m. PST
Bigger than Gettysburg: Chancellorsville (1863)	9	21 Jan 2023 2:58 p.m. PST
Probability on D6	2	21 Jan 2023 10:39 a.m. PST
The art of markers	16	14 Jan 2023 12:39 p.m. PST
Gen. Pettygree's Empire of Wrath, Ch. 6 Procession	6	12 Jan 2023 5:44 p.m. PST
Wargameing - Book Theory into practice?	18	11 Jan 2023 5:08 a.m. PST
Slowing Down the Game (1)	74	10 Jan 2023 10:42 a.m. PST
What minis games have an AI opponent?	8	07 Jan 2023 7:42 p.m. PST
Fundamental assumptions	24	27 Dec 2022 4:07 p.m. PST
How best to represent holding back/committing reserves?	36	21 Dec 2022 5:32 a.m. PST
Turn ships from the center!	7	20 Dec 2022 11:47 a.m. PST
Don't blow your cool!	10	19 Dec 2022 3:55 a.m. PST
Opposed rolls single or double with best number	11	16 Dec 2022 3:59 a.m. PST
Soccer/Futball Games	13	08 Dec 2022 1:33 p.m. PST
John Prados has Passed	8	07 Dec 2022 11:53 a.m. PST
Skirmish gaming by texts	12	05 Dec 2022 1:56 p.m. PST
You Are What You Eat	11	27 Nov 2022 12:37 p.m. PST
Terrible, Fond Wars Game Mechanics Experiment: Combat Skills	2	22 Nov 2022 10:02 p.m. PST
COOL werewolves	6	14 Nov 2022 9:10 p.m. PST
New! Gen. Pettygree's EMPIRE OF WRATH, Chapter 3	7	01 Nov 2022 4:11 p.m. PST
American Style Wargames	48	21 Oct 2022 9:23 p.m. PST
Manoeuvre Group 1/144 Terrain in Context	2	20 Oct 2022 2:55 p.m. PST
Fundamental assumptions	31	18 Oct 2022 5:46 a.m. PST
Terrain what we don't represent	30	17 Oct 2022 4:30 p.m. PST
Graphics Help - Freehand Program?	6	11 Oct 2022 9:32 a.m. PST
The Structures dilema	11	10 Oct 2022 5:26 a.m. PST
Same rules, different markers	21	04 Oct 2022 6:30 a.m. PST
Table size optimums	32	01 Oct 2022 11:52 p.m. PST
NEW Gen. Pettygree Battle Story, Empire of Wrath	7	30 Sep 2022 6:34 p.m. PST
Dealing with paradigms	32	29 Sep 2022 11:37 a.m. PST
Idea for double blind Fog of War	21	26 Sep 2022 7:12 a.m. PST
Firefighters and farmers	17	06 Sep 2022 4:08 p.m. PST
Rules. Old Age and Priorities	7	06 Sep 2022 7:04 a.m. PST
Best Osprey Rules – Any Period?	34	04 Sep 2022 10:55 p.m. PST
How good are you at guessing distances on the gaming table	22	31 Aug 2022 7:33 p.m. PST
Some ideas never get old	11	28 Aug 2022 4:18 p.m. PST
Breaking the Existing Historical Wargame Paradigm	155	25 Aug 2022 12:58 p.m. PST
Simulation the price is a headache ;-)	26	19 Aug 2022 12:57 p.m. PST
14 YEARS ON, Same game different words.	4	18 Aug 2022 6:05 p.m. PST
Gen. Pettygree Goes to The Kokoda Track!	5	14 Aug 2022 8:26 p.m. PST
NASHCON attendees familiar with Gavin Gossett	4	14 Aug 2022 6:04 a.m. PST
Defensive trench LAYOUT design required for simulation	8	12 Aug 2022 12:03 a.m. PST
Probability Benchmarks for new Mechanics	18	07 Aug 2022 10:39 a.m. PST
"Skirmish C2"?	4	03 Aug 2022 1:07 a.m. PST
Gen. Pettygree's General Orders For Us	8	31 Jul 2022 6:08 p.m. PST
Are Table tops a good way to wargame.	43	19 Jul 2022 1:26 p.m. PST
You fix them with house rules!	1	22 Jun 2022 11:49 a.m. PST
Help Needed on Command and Control game mechanic	14	18 Jun 2022 10:35 a.m. PST
Civilians, Irregulars, and Discipline	9	16 Jun 2022 11:02 a.m. PST
How to model the loss of combat effectiveness	26	14 Jun 2022 6:47 a.m. PST
Random by design?	53	12 Jun 2022 2:56 p.m. PST
NEW Gen.Pettygree Battlestory New Guinea 1943	10	02 Jun 2022 8:07 a.m. PST
What font size for rules?	27	13 May 2022 2:43 p.m. PST
Rules ideas - ammunition depletion and resupply	22	12 May 2022 12:26 p.m. PST
Ammo detail	2	29 Apr 2022 8:18 a.m. PST
2mm Battle of Timerton continued	3	28 Apr 2022 12:29 p.m. PST