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10 and 20 Sided Average Dice?	24	26 Mar 2026 3:19 p.m. PST
Least Favorite Game Mechanic? All of them!	4	24 Mar 2026 5:58 p.m. PST
Umpire's Toolbox	16	15 Mar 2026 3:21 p.m. PST
fighting prairie fires as a game?	10	03 Mar 2026 5:12 p.m. PST
Rules are fashion!	20	02 Mar 2026 4:31 a.m. PST
IGYG and the OODA Loop game mechanics comparison	60	18 Feb 2026 3:29 a.m. PST
KISS Rommel Riles Available - Free Downloads	11	31 Jan 2026 9:17 a.m. PST
Wargaming myths how do they get in the rules	75	31 Jan 2026 7:14 a.m. PST
The Defile from Gen. Pettygree's Chronicler	4	21 Jan 2026 8:46 a.m. PST
How Much Luck is Good?	41	09 Jan 2026 9:53 a.m. PST
Best helicopter / flying tank design?	16	04 Jan 2026 6:47 p.m. PST
a fight over jerky	6	04 Jan 2026 2:48 p.m. PST
ratio 1:1 and measures of the playground	6	28 Dec 2025 3:17 a.m. PST
The rules you wrote are excellent!	15	21 Dec 2025 10:50 p.m. PST
Deep Dive into the Bren Gun vs BAR use in WWII and why	60	15 Dec 2025 10:49 a.m. PST
Limbered artillery as a target	25	11 Dec 2025 5:43 p.m. PST
Victory Conditions & Army Morale? By Command!	56	06 Dec 2025 5:38 p.m. PST
Games you can play Cold	36	05 Dec 2025 7:57 a.m. PST
Turn Limits?	51	05 Dec 2025 7:41 a.m. PST
Damage of AP versus APHE rounds in WWII	40	03 Dec 2025 3:55 a.m. PST
Which dice? D6!	9	27 Nov 2025 11:26 a.m. PST
Rules do not have a natural lifespan!	37	17 Nov 2025 7:44 p.m. PST
In game resources have got to go	25	27 Oct 2025 10:43 a.m. PST
Boer War: polishing a rough Diamond (Hill)	5	15 Oct 2025 9:57 p.m. PST
Quality colours	15	10 Oct 2025 7:56 p.m. PST
BRM 1K Art/Mode/game	6	26 Sep 2025 4:01 a.m. PST
Is Wargame Vault the new MWAN?	24	23 Sep 2025 6:21 a.m. PST
Gen. Pettygree's Great Air Race	3	17 Sep 2025 4:01 p.m. PST
Complexity vs inadequate	143	16 Sep 2025 8:13 a.m. PST
Card Design Program for Random Event Decks?	7	05 Sep 2025 3:43 a.m. PST
What's it like to play a diceless wargame?	54	25 Jul 2025 10:14 a.m. PST
Replacement for Artscow?	6	09 Jul 2025 2:54 p.m. PST
Printing PDF Rule Books	29	30 Jun 2025 4:36 p.m. PST
Cinco de Mayo!	5	16 Jun 2025 2:01 p.m. PST
Ground scale figure scale and table size	51	04 Jun 2025 9:13 a.m. PST
Representing Pike & Shot Units	9	01 Jun 2025 10:48 p.m. PST
Jacobite variant for TS&TF available, free!	12	30 May 2025 10:34 p.m. PST
Can existing art be used for strictly playtest purposes?	17	27 May 2025 1:16 p.m. PST
Simplification	48	27 May 2025 5:40 a.m. PST
Ground scale figure scale and table size	4	20 May 2025 10:49 a.m. PST
How do you handle teaching newbies “complicated” rules?	72	14 May 2025 3:05 a.m. PST
Most Under-Rated Ruleset?	33	20 Apr 2025 3:02 p.m. PST
Card Decks	18	14 Apr 2025 3:29 a.m. PST
Assault on Artillery (and other) Positions	21	11 Apr 2025 6:57 p.m. PST
Off Table Artillery Trays	11	10 Apr 2025 4:02 p.m. PST
Fun with Grok 3 as a play testing partner & rules generator	7	23 Mar 2025 6:24 a.m. PST
Do your rules cover throwing behives down into bunkers.	12	09 Mar 2025 6:07 p.m. PST
Hills in Optio	8	01 Mar 2025 6:21 p.m. PST
Optio's terrain pre-game	10	20 Feb 2025 5:40 a.m. PST
"Non-tournament" Rule sets	14	19 Feb 2025 2:08 p.m. PST
Rules: Fashion or Progress?	76	19 Feb 2025 1:27 p.m. PST
Fighting from windows and different levels.	9	17 Feb 2025 8:10 p.m. PST
The infantry wedge and the oblique line in Optio	1	06 Feb 2025 1:47 p.m. PST
The ultimate gaming piece Tree	15	06 Feb 2025 1:05 p.m. PST
Roman line relief in Optio	7	05 Feb 2025 11:03 a.m. PST
Scientific American: Why Probability Probably Doesn’t Exist	53	29 Jan 2025 8:25 a.m. PST
“Toolbox rules”?	26	29 Jan 2025 4:26 a.m. PST
Idle Curiosity about my game mechanic	7	17 Jan 2025 9:35 a.m. PST
Buildings as Game pieces.	23	12 Jan 2025 2:40 p.m. PST
Cellars	14	03 Jan 2025 4:16 p.m. PST
Day of Battle Fifth Edition Activation Video	1	25 Dec 2024 7:08 a.m. PST
Favorite game mechanic?	25	24 Dec 2024 11:37 p.m. PST
Least favorite game mechanic?	36	24 Dec 2024 9:40 a.m. PST
Merry Christmas from Gen. Pettygree and Bill P.	9	23 Dec 2024 4:18 p.m. PST
Powder River Western by Gen. Pettygree, Act 4 The End	7	22 Dec 2024 5:53 p.m. PST
Tool Time	3	11 Dec 2024 5:06 p.m. PST
Breakin' the Law, Breakin' the Law	28	11 Dec 2024 10:30 a.m. PST
Are the rules you wrote any good?	77	04 Dec 2024 4:57 p.m. PST
Half a Hex, Half a Hex, Half a Hexon-ward...	2	01 Dec 2024 6:23 p.m. PST
essential elements in an ACW wargames rule set?	38	18 Nov 2024 7:12 a.m. PST
essential ACW rules suggestions here now please!	8	18 Nov 2024 5:19 a.m. PST
Worst kind of rules.	81	12 Nov 2024 3:51 a.m. PST
Rules Treat Science Like Magic	6	30 Oct 2024 1:58 p.m. PST
PhD in Wargaming	23	30 Oct 2024 4:58 a.m. PST
We treat magic as science	9	22 Oct 2024 1:17 p.m. PST
Mechanics I don’t like Pt1	44	20 Oct 2024 5:40 a.m. PST
Command and Control	71	06 Oct 2024 3:39 p.m. PST
Which dice?	47	06 Oct 2024 8:34 a.m. PST
The Natural Lifespan of Rules?	27	06 Oct 2024 8:33 a.m. PST
Buckets of Dice Melee Resolution?	49	05 Oct 2024 3:02 a.m. PST
Mechanics I don’t like Pt2	26	04 Oct 2024 9:57 a.m. PST
Buyers of GTSTE PDF Edition--Free Replacement Files Due You!	4	29 Sep 2024 1:46 p.m. PST
Victory Conditions - Army morale	20	21 Sep 2024 8:57 a.m. PST
Bursk Part 1 development of a scenario	4	04 Sep 2024 11:30 a.m. PST
Why play a whole big battle at all?	74	30 Aug 2024 12:46 p.m. PST
"A Regiment Less Well Known"	5	29 Aug 2024 12:52 p.m. PST
Looking to build a Game Design and Playtester community	9	27 Aug 2024 7:23 a.m. PST
Black Powder versus Oathmark	10	25 Aug 2024 8:28 p.m. PST
Glide bombs and Grads	11	24 Aug 2024 1:34 p.m. PST
54mm Rescue Post Battle by Gen. Pettygree	3	22 Aug 2024 10:16 a.m. PST
Flavour	13	10 Aug 2024 11:21 p.m. PST
The more things change the more they stay the same	87	10 Aug 2024 5:04 p.m. PST
Acceptable levels of random	56	05 Aug 2024 2:52 a.m. PST
Do you log your changes.	11	03 Aug 2024 6:32 a.m. PST
Edgehill play test for FPPS	7	12 Jul 2024 11:41 a.m. PST
Free pike and shot rules on my blog	13	29 Jun 2024 6:35 p.m. PST
How long is a turn	92	13 Jun 2024 8:29 a.m. PST
Radios and Jeeps	10	11 Jun 2024 12:09 a.m. PST
Ban Inches and Centimetres	35	06 Jun 2024 3:17 p.m. PST
Optio VASSAL module	5	06 Jun 2024 4:14 a.m. PST