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Bob Wall Gridded Tournament Game
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18 Jun 2018 6:54 a.m. PST
A designer's dilemma, about bases
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13 Jun 2018 1:38 p.m. PST
Best Richard H. Berg Game Design: TSS!
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13 Jun 2018 9:01 a.m. PST
Help Needed on Command and Control game mechanic
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08 Jun 2018 9:22 a.m. PST
List of Titles used for rules, Please add yours..Long
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03 Jun 2018 4:55 p.m. PST
Treadheads at KublaCon this weekend
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01 Jun 2018 8:05 p.m. PST
Ram Company Games needs playtesters.
4
24 May 2018 10:09 a.m. PST
Playtest Opportunity - 28mm Gladiator Skirmish Gaming
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21 May 2018 1:36 p.m. PST
All Bad Guys ...
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20 May 2018 11:52 p.m. PST
Could Orwell’s ‘1984’ Be Made Into A GAME? How?
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10 May 2018 6:00 a.m. PST
Need Help with Logo Design
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02 May 2018 3:58 p.m. PST
Need Help with logo Design
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01 May 2018 10:34 a.m. PST
Pony Wars question
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01 May 2018 7:21 a.m. PST
Loose filled and American scramble . Any updates ?
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01 May 2018 2:32 a.m. PST
Slaughter At Forge Valley - A Future Force Warrior AAR
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30 Apr 2018 3:18 p.m. PST
How far should WW2 infantry move?
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29 Apr 2018 2:44 a.m. PST
Pre-Battle Rules for Maneuvers, Logistics, etc.?
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26 Apr 2018 10:17 p.m. PST
A Valid Simulation?
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26 Apr 2018 5:24 p.m. PST
KartoffelKrieg
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22 Apr 2018 5:39 p.m. PST
Breakpoints, morale failure and success in battle
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21 Apr 2018 2:36 p.m. PST
Integrated Game Design - some thoughts
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20 Apr 2018 12:39 p.m. PST
Cabin Wars Wound Chart
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17 Apr 2018 4:53 p.m. PST
Alternate/random activation in 40k 8th ed
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15 Apr 2018 8:12 p.m. PST
Feedback Requested on My Homebrew C&C Mechanics
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13 Apr 2018 8:58 p.m. PST
Complicated or Complex?
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13 Apr 2018 1:03 p.m. PST
Cabin Wars Update: Rules Design
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07 Apr 2018 10:15 a.m. PST
Quick-Playing Combat Mechanisms with Dice Pools?
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06 Apr 2018 4:46 p.m. PST
Cabin Wars Rules Update
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04 Apr 2018 11:14 a.m. PST
Cabin Wars: Big Bertha Rules
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03 Apr 2018 2:27 p.m. PST
Commercial or Home brewed?
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03 Apr 2018 1:20 a.m. PST
How far should a minature be able to move in a game?
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02 Apr 2018 9:11 a.m. PST
Martian and Gramma Rules for Cabin Wars
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01 Apr 2018 6:20 p.m. PST
Cabin Wars Game Design WIP.5
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28 Mar 2018 5:11 p.m. PST
Cheap 'n' Simple Scratchbuild: Soviet Shock Drone
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26 Mar 2018 7:36 a.m. PST
USS Essex versus HMS Phoebe challenge match
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22 Mar 2018 7:38 p.m. PST
Using Berthier for a naval game
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22 Mar 2018 11:03 a.m. PST
Hammipoi
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22 Mar 2018 10:30 a.m. PST
Add Die or reroll Which is More of an Advantage?
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16 Mar 2018 9:50 a.m. PST
light machine gun volume of fire ?
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15 Mar 2018 11:57 p.m. PST
Connections US 2017
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14 Mar 2018 9:57 a.m. PST
Cabin Wars Scenario Design Draft. 3
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10 Mar 2018 9:04 p.m. PST
Best Simple Ruleset?
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09 Mar 2018 8:22 p.m. PST
Eric Lee Smith interview
1
09 Mar 2018 7:06 p.m. PST
Cardmogrifier: DIY Create Card Deck via Your Laser Printer
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09 Mar 2018 12:37 p.m. PST
What application.....
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08 Mar 2018 3:55 a.m. PST
Best brigade morale and army breakpoint
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06 Mar 2018 10:32 a.m. PST
Getting inside the enemy Decision Loop
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04 Mar 2018 8:39 p.m. PST
Playing Congo or using Congo rules
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01 Mar 2018 8:44 a.m. PST
Which one is more annoying? (basing issue)
29
01 Mar 2018 7:07 a.m. PST
Operation Deliberate Force (Bosnia Air Combat)
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01 Mar 2018 6:37 a.m. PST
Favorite Old School Game Designer?
55
26 Feb 2018 1:51 p.m. PST
Modifier tracking - something simple has just occurred to me
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22 Feb 2018 3:47 a.m. PST
Hex based sci fi rules
10
18 Feb 2018 3:26 p.m. PST
Cabin Wars. 2
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18 Feb 2018 3:12 p.m. PST
Cabin Wars.1
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15 Feb 2018 8:57 p.m. PST
@ jefritrout
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09 Feb 2018 3:42 p.m. PST
Professional 3D Artist for Hire
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07 Feb 2018 4:40 a.m. PST
stacking and grid/hex unit limits ? board/wargames
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06 Feb 2018 7:16 a.m. PST
Looking for some playtesters!
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05 Feb 2018 8:56 a.m. PST
The Guild
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03 Feb 2018 5:44 a.m. PST
I Feel Pretty ,,,
28
03 Feb 2018 4:00 a.m. PST
Digital vs Paper Rules Publishing Article, wargamer.com
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02 Feb 2018 11:33 a.m. PST
References and Citations
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29 Jan 2018 7:59 a.m. PST
ASOBH: Dark Rituals
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28 Jan 2018 2:12 p.m. PST
Need images
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25 Jan 2018 5:42 p.m. PST
Rules with Square Grids
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23 Jan 2018 10:26 p.m. PST
25mm, 28mm, 30mm Musical bands minis
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22 Jan 2018 10:06 a.m. PST
Saga New Edition - Interview with designer
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20 Jan 2018 9:23 a.m. PST
Looking for an Illustrator
5
19 Jan 2018 11:03 a.m. PST
Raiding the Crypt of Mighty Lord Thule
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17 Jan 2018 9:11 a.m. PST
Learn and Retain
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16 Jan 2018 3:13 p.m. PST
Level of Detail?
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15 Jan 2018 2:45 p.m. PST
Markers how to
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14 Jan 2018 1:49 p.m. PST
Wally Simon's Volume 8: Naval Secrets of Wargame Design
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11 Jan 2018 8:42 p.m. PST
2017 - year in review - 2018 - plans for the future!
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09 Jan 2018 4:42 p.m. PST
Game Designers That Impacted the Hobby
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09 Jan 2018 2:36 p.m. PST
Tabletop Miniature Game Convention
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04 Jan 2018 10:47 a.m. PST
Galactic:Conflict in the Stars-Prime
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02 Jan 2018 9:24 p.m. PST
Logistics Do you consider them
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02 Jan 2018 7:20 a.m. PST
Effective human sight and hearing ranges for spotting
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01 Jan 2018 8:20 a.m. PST
How do you treat buildings and urban areas and why.
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29 Dec 2017 3:49 p.m. PST
meaning of pinned & suppressed
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28 Dec 2017 7:15 p.m. PST
Do You Play With Your Food?
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24 Dec 2017 9:22 a.m. PST
Would You Buy a Rulebook Without Art?
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23 Dec 2017 9:57 a.m. PST
squads shooting at squads
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23 Dec 2017 3:53 a.m. PST
The Northern Monkey Puzzle
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19 Dec 2017 1:53 p.m. PST
Writing rules and changing horses midstream
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12 Dec 2017 7:35 p.m. PST
Looking for eye candies for my rule book
1
03 Dec 2017 8:35 p.m. PST
Game Designers With A Sense of Humor
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03 Dec 2017 8:58 a.m. PST
What are the odds of...
39
02 Dec 2017 9:15 a.m. PST
Sword and the Flame Data Cards you can download
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01 Dec 2017 5:19 p.m. PST
Unit point costs
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30 Nov 2017 5:15 p.m. PST
Double-blog WWII AAR!
1
28 Nov 2017 6:58 p.m. PST
Basing Saga nearing its end!
2
28 Nov 2017 10:40 a.m. PST
18th Cent Imagi-nation Campaign. Battle of Inka-Dinka-Doo
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27 Nov 2017 8:27 p.m. PST
Starship rules help needed
11
27 Nov 2017 8:19 p.m. PST
Favorite tank-infantry 1:1 rule sets
31
27 Nov 2017 7:14 a.m. PST
Tony Bath's Hyborian Campaign
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21 Nov 2017 9:10 a.m. PST
Mindreaders
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19 Nov 2017 4:28 a.m. PST
Grant Point System?
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16 Nov 2017 5:59 p.m. PST