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The 5 Test Battles for Ancients
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24 May 2019 11:32 a.m. PST
Keeping it in the Family
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23 May 2019 11:58 a.m. PST
Test Battles for Renaissance Rulesets
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22 May 2019 10:53 p.m. PST
You write your own rules because...
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21 May 2019 9:16 a.m. PST
The 5 Wargame Rules That Changed the Industry are...
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19 May 2019 8:26 p.m. PST
Fast-Playing Rules
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14 May 2019 12:00 a.m. PST
FoG:r index?
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11 May 2019 4:24 p.m. PST
Reenactor Experience versus War Game Rules
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06 May 2019 1:02 p.m. PST
A tale of wargaming from my early days at Osprey Publishing
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02 May 2019 8:26 a.m. PST
A review of TRAVEL BATTLE by Perry Miniatures
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02 May 2019 2:38 a.m. PST
Accurate Simulation of Military Operations
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30 Apr 2019 3:58 a.m. PST
Where's the Wargaming Rules Innovation?
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25 Apr 2019 4:12 p.m. PST
Very good web resource for WW1 naval gunnery & fire control
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24 Apr 2019 7:17 a.m. PST
wargames that better help understand the world
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20 Apr 2019 1:32 p.m. PST
Has anyone thought to use near field tags in games?
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20 Apr 2019 6:16 a.m. PST
Where Do I Begin ..?
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19 Apr 2019 11:49 p.m. PST
How Wargames Have Shaped History and may the Future
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17 Apr 2019 7:09 a.m. PST
What slows down your games the most?
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12 Apr 2019 11:58 p.m. PST
Fixing up Frostgrave Ghost Archipelago table
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12 Apr 2019 8:09 p.m. PST
When to end games?
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12 Apr 2019 7:59 p.m. PST
Heights and their effect on the battlefield
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08 Apr 2019 8:55 a.m. PST
Never Tell Me the Odds
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07 Apr 2019 3:06 p.m. PST
Opposed Dice Rolls
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07 Apr 2019 2:54 p.m. PST
The Sniping Game
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07 Apr 2019 9:23 a.m. PST
Minimum Requirements for a simulation
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29 Mar 2019 12:43 p.m. PST
Tony Bath's Hyborian Campaign
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22 Mar 2019 9:38 a.m. PST
Table movement distance
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22 Mar 2019 6:07 a.m. PST
NATO Cold War - Battalion Strategy plus Game Design
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17 Mar 2019 9:43 p.m. PST
Incoming !! New rules from David Brown & Reisswitz Press
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16 Mar 2019 9:27 a.m. PST
Where to find Super Unstoppable Death Machine Units?
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12 Mar 2019 5:14 p.m. PST
Odds in card-based systems
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09 Mar 2019 5:23 p.m. PST
Did "recoiling" actually happen in Ancient Battles?
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07 Mar 2019 2:44 a.m. PST
Killing Is My Business
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06 Mar 2019 1:51 p.m. PST
How Long is a Campaign?
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05 Mar 2019 6:24 a.m. PST
Game Design: Leadership
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28 Feb 2019 11:41 p.m. PST
Favorite tank-infantry 1:1 rule sets
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13 Feb 2019 10:27 a.m. PST
Playing Congo or using Congo rules
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10 Feb 2019 7:27 a.m. PST
Drop out?
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08 Feb 2019 1:59 p.m. PST
Published my WW2 rules on my blog
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04 Feb 2019 4:58 p.m. PST
The Portable Napoleonic Wargame is now on sale ...
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19 Jan 2019 8:41 a.m. PST
When can a commander ignore orders
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16 Jan 2019 8:59 a.m. PST
Scenarios for Wargames
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15 Jan 2019 11:18 p.m. PST
How long to change formation?
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14 Jan 2019 6:33 a.m. PST
Please constrain me!
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13 Jan 2019 11:04 a.m. PST
Help me with my grid math
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10 Jan 2019 11:47 a.m. PST
The Problems with IGOUGO...
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09 Jan 2019 9:21 a.m. PST
Realism in (WWII) Wargames Rules
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05 Jan 2019 12:51 p.m. PST
Campaign Siege Rules
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05 Jan 2019 2:13 a.m. PST
Pz8 (two-pages free wargaming rules) Yahoogroup
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31 Dec 2018 11:17 a.m. PST
New blog entry on creating command friction in game rules
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27 Dec 2018 1:43 p.m. PST
Connections North
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17 Dec 2018 8:58 a.m. PST
Streamlined Alternatives to a Reaction Mechanic?
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16 Dec 2018 11:59 a.m. PST
What are the chances?
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07 Dec 2018 10:41 a.m. PST
My new idea of a dice mechanism, and helps are needed
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06 Dec 2018 1:59 a.m. PST
VSF IO Group
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02 Dec 2018 10:26 p.m. PST
Designer's Notes? A paragraph will do...
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02 Dec 2018 4:15 p.m. PST
Rules for Border Reivers: Play test interest?
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30 Nov 2018 5:01 p.m. PST
In praise of The All-Knowing Odds Table
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30 Nov 2018 10:53 a.m. PST
Basic roll under mechanic (d20)
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23 Nov 2018 6:31 p.m. PST
Valid Simulation? Nope!
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21 Nov 2018 2:05 p.m. PST
Game design posts on my blog
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13 Nov 2018 4:01 p.m. PST
Maybe seeking Card designer - UK
3
13 Nov 2018 11:56 a.m. PST
Range distortion in the Goldilocks Zone
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05 Nov 2018 3:28 a.m. PST
Scale of the battlefield and weapon ranges.
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04 Nov 2018 8:44 a.m. PST
Most Accessible Game Designer?
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31 Oct 2018 1:40 p.m. PST
DARPA wargaming RFI
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10 Oct 2018 3:43 p.m. PST
Do your melee/assault rules allow double elimination?
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09 Oct 2018 2:52 p.m. PST
Representing Buttoned/Unbuttoned AFVs
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03 Oct 2018 9:51 p.m. PST
Why do you write your own rules?
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29 Sep 2018 7:03 a.m. PST
Too Many or Too Few?
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25 Sep 2018 5:18 p.m. PST
Trying to contact Chris Russell (Wings at War)
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24 Sep 2018 8:45 a.m. PST
Help me find generic fantasy rules??
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24 Sep 2018 5:19 a.m. PST
Connections UK Conference
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16 Sep 2018 10:06 a.m. PST
A difference between Board and Table wargaming: A Question
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13 Sep 2018 8:20 p.m. PST
Best Simple Ruleset?
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13 Sep 2018 7:19 a.m. PST
Table sizes and scales of model, what are yours?
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12 Sep 2018 3:47 p.m. PST
Changing situations make games more interesting
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12 Sep 2018 1:56 p.m. PST
Cabin Wars Shopping
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12 Sep 2018 9:12 a.m. PST
Real Naval War Gaming
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10 Sep 2018 7:54 a.m. PST
Off Limits=
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07 Sep 2018 7:17 p.m. PST
New WW2 Naval rules - Carrier Strike at Dawn
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04 Sep 2018 2:04 p.m. PST
The purpose of a limber in a wargame...
27
03 Sep 2018 5:08 p.m. PST
Off Limits!
3
31 Aug 2018 1:33 p.m. PST
Off Limits?
3
31 Aug 2018 10:27 a.m. PST
Specialised and "Official" Dice?
27
31 Aug 2018 7:44 a.m. PST
Cabin Wars Melon Field WIP. 1
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29 Aug 2018 11:07 p.m. PST
The 5 Designers That Impacted the Hobby
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27 Aug 2018 6:39 p.m. PST
Solo Game, Cabin Wars Scenario Design Draft. 15
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25 Aug 2018 2:30 p.m. PST
How absurd is Sharp Practice?
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21 Aug 2018 3:27 p.m. PST
Game Designers That Impacted the Hobby
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17 Aug 2018 10:23 a.m. PST
Bob Wall Gridded Tournament Game
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17 Aug 2018 7:18 a.m. PST
Rules - Not Detailed Enough!
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15 Aug 2018 12:04 a.m. PST
Cabin Wars.1 Map Sketch
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13 Aug 2018 10:53 a.m. PST
Ancients version of Lion Rampant?
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10 Aug 2018 11:16 a.m. PST
Do you use flow charts?
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04 Aug 2018 2:39 p.m. PST
Name a set of war game rules that changed the industry.
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04 Aug 2018 5:18 a.m. PST
Best 'Design Your Own Unit' System? Full Thrust!
1
02 Aug 2018 9:30 p.m. PST
Ram Company Games needs playtesters.
5
02 Aug 2018 11:04 a.m. PST
HVU - High Value Useless?
6
29 Jul 2018 2:21 p.m. PST
Hcon 18: WWII 1943 Battle of Gela in Sicily in 15mm
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26 Jul 2018 3:31 a.m. PST