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What are the top five things that makes a set "WWII rules"?
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29 Jan 2015 5:44 p.m. PST
For BIG Participation Game Players, Hosts, Judges & Others
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27 Jan 2015 9:55 a.m. PST
Do the rules work?
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26 Jan 2015 9:54 p.m. PST
Game 1 with new wargame board of Norwegian coastal invasion
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25 Jan 2015 3:44 p.m. PST
Para Bellum - Rules for Activation
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24 Jan 2015 6:07 a.m. PST
Wargaming Chess
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19 Jan 2015 9:47 a.m. PST
Firing at "clustered" targets (WW2)
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18 Jan 2015 9:02 a.m. PST
John Hill: An Appreciation
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18 Jan 2015 7:18 a.m. PST
Thane's Games is back, with Terrenus: The Game of Gods
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17 Jan 2015 11:13 a.m. PST
Suppression and Firepower
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17 Jan 2015 9:03 a.m. PST
Artwork needed for rules cover
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14 Jan 2015 11:21 a.m. PST
3D Modeling of charcters
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12 Jan 2015 11:27 a.m. PST
artillery effects
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11 Jan 2015 8:06 a.m. PST
National Characteristics: Some Questions
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09 Jan 2015 6:23 a.m. PST
IWG INTEREST GROUP
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08 Jan 2015 4:51 a.m. PST
Conflict of Heroes - gun /armour relationships
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06 Jan 2015 7:46 p.m. PST
Tactical Factors in Combat Systems
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06 Jan 2015 7:46 p.m. PST
Rolling dice for movement?
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04 Jan 2015 4:48 p.m. PST
Looking for a Rules Writer...
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04 Jan 2015 4:15 p.m. PST
Making the French Rev & Napoleonic Wars into a boardgame
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04 Jan 2015 8:56 a.m. PST
Age of Madness Design Notes: Turn Sequence
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01 Jan 2015 1:37 p.m. PST
rules that trade one aspect for another
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31 Dec 2014 8:37 a.m. PST
Fire support in wargaming
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28 Dec 2014 6:26 p.m. PST
My Game of All Games
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27 Dec 2014 5:24 p.m. PST
"Hail Of Fire" simple 3-page rules! Looking for feedback!
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27 Dec 2014 1:25 p.m. PST
comparing 5 tactical systems
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26 Dec 2014 3:26 p.m. PST
Games Tightly Focussed On A Single Commander
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24 Dec 2014 11:06 a.m. PST
Fog of War with Standard Poker Deck
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21 Dec 2014 6:18 p.m. PST
Great service ... but
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19 Dec 2014 10:55 a.m. PST
More reaper bones
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18 Dec 2014 8:10 p.m. PST
Command Combat: Civil War - Grant v. Lee (1864 expansion)
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13 Dec 2014 1:59 p.m. PST
Defense: Cover vs. Skill
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13 Dec 2014 3:43 a.m. PST
Variable Movement for "Throw me a 6"
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12 Dec 2014 6:05 p.m. PST
Commanding positions
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12 Dec 2014 8:35 a.m. PST
What makes it fun?
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08 Dec 2014 11:30 a.m. PST
Straight squares vs staggered/brick patterns squares?
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06 Dec 2014 8:44 a.m. PST
The Nutcracker -- the game.
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03 Dec 2014 1:10 p.m. PST
THE OGABAS OB.
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29 Nov 2014 6:27 a.m. PST
Move then Shoot actions: Why that order?
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26 Nov 2014 10:49 p.m. PST
Board Game Honor Code
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25 Nov 2014 11:32 p.m. PST
Faction - A Hated Term?
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24 Nov 2014 11:52 a.m. PST
Skull and Crown: Turkish Galley with Firing Marker
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20 Nov 2014 10:47 p.m. PST
OpFire in the Age of Madness
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20 Nov 2014 10:49 a.m. PST
Real Tactics
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20 Nov 2014 7:35 a.m. PST
Energy resource for defense and offense.
2
15 Nov 2014 5:43 p.m. PST
Fleet game using C&C core mechanic
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15 Nov 2014 8:37 a.m. PST
Moving from the opposite edge.
6
14 Nov 2014 8:33 a.m. PST
Last Chance for Kickstarter "Gunman's Law"
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11 Nov 2014 12:13 p.m. PST
Update on range of 15mm sci-fi models I'm working on
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11 Nov 2014 11:52 a.m. PST
Online or Digital Random Event Cards
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08 Nov 2014 6:02 a.m. PST
Which Wars and How ?
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30 Oct 2014 8:42 a.m. PST
Some tweaks for "Throw me a 6!"
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28 Oct 2014 12:12 p.m. PST
Dust Tactics- using 40K units; conversions?
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25 Oct 2014 6:57 p.m. PST
New version of "Throw me a '6'...
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25 Oct 2014 11:48 a.m. PST
Magnesia using Throw me a 6 now up...
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24 Oct 2014 9:58 a.m. PST
Cavalry vs Cavalry
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24 Oct 2014 7:38 a.m. PST
A means of activation
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22 Oct 2014 9:15 a.m. PST
Rules vs. Stats
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22 Oct 2014 2:28 a.m. PST
Throw Me a 6 now online.
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21 Oct 2014 7:55 a.m. PST
Static Wargame?
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20 Oct 2014 1:32 p.m. PST
How many dice = 'Bucket of dice'?
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20 Oct 2014 8:48 a.m. PST
Relief of Cadiz in 1810 AAR
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20 Oct 2014 5:33 a.m. PST
Six-Color Hex Map
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17 Oct 2014 9:18 p.m. PST
How to handle chariots and arrtillery
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17 Oct 2014 7:49 a.m. PST
Throw me a 6 battle report
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16 Oct 2014 8:26 a.m. PST
Some ruminations about simple game design.
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16 Oct 2014 4:46 a.m. PST
East front campaign module - video trailer
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15 Oct 2014 9:38 p.m. PST
Two Hour Wargames Contracts with LnL Publishing.
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13 Oct 2014 1:34 p.m. PST
Can anyone recommended a comic book style artist.
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13 Oct 2014 2:53 a.m. PST
New Injection Molding Company
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10 Oct 2014 1:58 p.m. PST
Experimental Games
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08 Oct 2014 3:27 p.m. PST
Mine Fields: How to represent?
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08 Oct 2014 1:13 p.m. PST
On the lighter side perhaps...?
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07 Oct 2014 7:58 a.m. PST
Cavalry v. squares – determining factors?
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06 Oct 2014 6:14 a.m. PST
Urban Squirrel Territory Fighting
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03 Oct 2014 4:18 p.m. PST
Look Ma! No dice.
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02 Oct 2014 9:16 p.m. PST
Time to act on orders in high level games
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02 Oct 2014 2:32 p.m. PST
Personalities for NPCs
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28 Sep 2014 10:01 a.m. PST
Simple Objective Markers
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27 Sep 2014 8:10 a.m. PST
Printing Cards -- alternatives to Superior POD
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25 Sep 2014 9:01 a.m. PST
placing terrain DURING a game
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18 Sep 2014 4:41 a.m. PST
solo rules for the 19th century
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17 Sep 2014 1:02 a.m. PST
Using TSATF for The Greek War of Independence 1821-1830
42
11 Sep 2014 12:52 p.m. PST
Are we looking in all the wrong places in our game designs?
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06 Sep 2014 7:20 a.m. PST
Skirmish versus unit games, and back again
2
05 Sep 2014 7:39 a.m. PST
Help with simplifying this mechanism
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03 Sep 2014 10:34 a.m. PST
If i wanted to be totally realistic...
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31 Aug 2014 10:05 p.m. PST
Armour values of WWII tanks?
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27 Aug 2014 8:29 a.m. PST
Biker Games?
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22 Aug 2014 10:57 a.m. PST
The Brotherhood Board Game
2
22 Aug 2014 7:03 a.m. PST
Brainstorming another skirmish activation/action system
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21 Aug 2014 3:27 p.m. PST
All encompassing Pulp Trait
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21 Aug 2014 3:14 p.m. PST
Racing Games with moving terrain
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19 Aug 2014 12:25 p.m. PST
Programmed-side deployment
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18 Aug 2014 7:02 a.m. PST
So I bought the rules...
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15 Aug 2014 10:43 a.m. PST
How many kinds of electronic warfare?
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11 Aug 2014 9:24 p.m. PST
Getting youngsters involved in the hobby. Here's how I do it
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11 Aug 2014 3:21 p.m. PST
BattleBox In Action
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08 Aug 2014 7:18 a.m. PST
Deadlands: Doomtown Range Wars (Disk Wars) Rules?
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06 Aug 2014 5:52 p.m. PST
Sculptor available for work
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06 Aug 2014 12:47 p.m. PST