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Revisiting WRG 6th Edition	19	07 Nov 2024 12:52 p.m. PST
PhD in Wargaming	23	30 Oct 2024 3:58 a.m. PST
What "school" do you belong to or identify with?	33	20 Oct 2024 8:40 a.m. PST
The Natural Lifespan of Rules?	27	06 Oct 2024 7:33 a.m. PST
Buckets of Dice Melee Resolution?	49	05 Oct 2024 2:02 a.m. PST
Is Wargame Vault the new MWAN?	22	10 Sep 2024 12:45 p.m. PST
The Return Of The Penny Soldier – Airfix figures newspaper	1	08 Aug 2024 3:42 p.m. PST
Art Fossa of Aide De Camp Books	16	20 Jun 2024 4:48 p.m. PST
The German board game that changed the face of war.	1	13 Jun 2024 9:32 p.m. PST
The Origins of Wargaming	11	19 Apr 2024 7:12 p.m. PST
SCRUM CON 2024 video	1	07 Apr 2024 10:55 a.m. PST
Did any know R. Zimmerman of Z&M Enterprises?	13	14 Mar 2024 12:29 p.m. PST
Wargames from World War II: Book Review	18	24 Feb 2024 6:54 a.m. PST
Terry Wise Battles for wargamers	10	15 Feb 2024 5:54 a.m. PST
Another bit of nostalgia	1	23 Jan 2024 8:17 a.m. PST
a bit of nostalgia	5	16 Jan 2024 1:58 p.m. PST
People who influenced your wargaming.	21	17 Dec 2023 2:52 p.m. PST
The mythic French wargame La Guerre des Duc made in 3D	1	20 Nov 2023 12:58 a.m. PST
Seeking people who made "precision" dice 70s-80s	4	04 Sep 2023 1:23 p.m. PST
Panzerfaust v5 n1, Apr '70 - help with a couple details	1	03 Sep 2023 9:06 a.m. PST
Help parsing a line from 1969 rules	13	13 Jul 2023 5:34 a.m. PST
Help rebuilding Gary Gygax Ancient Miniatures Rules	3	12 Jul 2023 10:24 a.m. PST
Anyone who knew Virginia Esten?	3	05 Jul 2023 3:55 a.m. PST
Peter Laing catalogue - possibly 1980?	11	26 Jun 2023 7:51 a.m. PST
When Worlds Collaborate: The Style of Early...	8	25 May 2023 2:22 p.m. PST
"War games on the kitchen table"	3	19 Apr 2023 10:53 a.m. PST
Wargaming Wrens in WW2	10	18 Apr 2023 1:14 p.m. PST
Remember When – Toy Soldiers	8	29 Mar 2023 2:55 p.m. PST
15mm figures by Michael & Alan Perry / Wargames Foundry	16	17 Mar 2023 8:41 p.m. PST
Rudi Geudens and Tony Bath's Hyborian Campaign	22	27 Dec 2022 12:54 p.m. PST
Meanderings & Musings	12	08 Nov 2022 9:16 a.m. PST
Kriegsspiel – How a 19th Century Table-Top War Game	5	24 Oct 2022 1:50 p.m. PST
American Style Wargames	48	21 Oct 2022 8:23 p.m. PST
Donald Featherstone: 5!	10	03 Jul 2022 5:56 a.m. PST
Jack Scruby Catalogue	12	03 Jun 2022 3:07 p.m. PST
Wargaming: The Illusion of “Balance”	6	17 May 2022 1:38 a.m. PST
Minifigs 25mm kettle drum carriage.	7	09 May 2022 7:49 p.m. PST
Reminisces of John Tilson. (Waterloo)	3	23 Apr 2022 2:24 p.m. PST
Owen: What’s wrong with professional wargaming?	3	21 Apr 2022 2:14 p.m. PST
John Tilson and Battleground	2	15 Apr 2022 8:06 p.m. PST
By request - for Allan Mountford: On Casualties	3	08 Apr 2022 2:14 p.m. PST
Roberts Louis Stevenson, forgotten hero of Wargaming ?	3	01 Apr 2022 2:33 p.m. PST
Miniature Wargaming - The Movie. A Review	5	18 Mar 2022 2:20 p.m. PST
How To Play With Toy Soldiers Anno 1929	3	24 Feb 2022 2:32 p.m. PST
Chainmail, Swords and Spells, AD&D, Battlesystem	7	03 Feb 2022 4:22 p.m. PST
Gamers gone and remembered	25	26 Jan 2022 1:06 p.m. PST
Is Historical Wargaming Dying or Dead?	18	12 Jan 2022 9:50 p.m. PST
Sir Ian Livingstone	7	06 Jan 2022 7:08 a.m. PST
Yarkshire Gamer Talks Peter Gilder	8	04 Jan 2022 5:04 p.m. PST
Playtesting Wargames Research Group 4th Edition Ancient	11	31 Dec 2021 3:45 p.m. PST
Medieval lead soldiers, 14th century.	4	15 Dec 2021 3:21 p.m. PST
How a Board Game Helped Win a War	3	01 Nov 2021 2:29 p.m. PST
Paddy Griffith's 1974 Operation Sealion Game at Sandhurst	5	26 Oct 2021 12:49 p.m. PST
Burnaby rules?	2	06 Oct 2021 8:04 a.m. PST
The Future of Wargaming	40	02 Oct 2021 11:09 p.m. PST
Winchell Chung Terminal Diagnosis	19	02 Oct 2021 3:31 p.m. PST
A Video ... How Did War Become A Game?	3	02 Sep 2021 8:08 p.m. PST
Types of figures used in the earliest wargames?	25	20 Aug 2021 7:50 p.m. PST
Exotically Continental - Roco Minitanks	30	24 Jul 2021 8:29 a.m. PST
1885 article on German actor wargaming with tin soldiers	8	02 Jul 2021 2:00 p.m. PST
Bob Bard's Military Miniatures Catalog (c. 1954–1958)	1	22 Jun 2021 1:59 p.m. PST
Father's Day Musings	6	21 Jun 2021 9:55 a.m. PST
And the Wargamer Who Most Influenced You is...	56	14 Jun 2021 11:57 a.m. PST
First Historicon & First Cold Wars?	8	11 Jun 2021 5:24 a.m. PST
Peter Cushing and Toy Soldiers	8	07 Jun 2021 12:35 p.m. PST
Colección Rittwagen.	7	07 Jun 2021 10:52 a.m. PST
Tin Soldier Museum	1	03 Jun 2021 8:45 p.m. PST
When was AH Gettysburg widely available?	23	03 Jun 2021 5:48 p.m. PST
Father of Fantasy Miniature Wargaming?	22	28 May 2021 8:46 p.m. PST
1950s Gridded rule set?	18	18 May 2021 1:02 p.m. PST
Women and Wargaming – the Enigma	31	15 May 2021 3:34 p.m. PST
Who made the best "History of Wargaming" book?	7	08 May 2021 8:27 p.m. PST
The Young War Gamers Who Changed the Course of World War II	8	02 May 2021 9:34 p.m. PST
H. G. Wells. Poster	14	01 May 2021 1:42 p.m. PST
50th Anniversary of Chainmail	9	29 Mar 2021 5:00 a.m. PST
To those who played Chainmail with G.Gygax please!	32	27 Mar 2021 7:39 p.m. PST
On Casualties, by Duncan Macfarlane	3	21 Mar 2021 8:02 p.m. PST
Britains Super Toys catalog 1971	7	14 Mar 2021 4:41 p.m. PST
Cool Toy Soldiers Review	3	13 Mar 2021 9:57 p.m. PST
A Brief History of Tabletop Wargaming in Japan: 1972–2012	5	06 Mar 2021 12:01 p.m. PST
A Game of Contexts: Prussian-German Professional Wargames	7	27 Feb 2021 8:42 p.m. PST
Charlie Sweet: "Confessions of a Long Time Wargamer"	4	24 Feb 2021 11:23 a.m. PST
Playing wargames to shape real-life military strategy	3	23 Feb 2021 12:03 p.m. PST
Miniature Wargaming The Movie	8	20 Feb 2021 11:47 a.m. PST
Stevenson at Play	3	20 Feb 2021 11:33 a.m. PST
Why Story Gamers?	10	18 Feb 2021 1:46 p.m. PST
Building the Revell 1/72 scale Fiat C.R. 42 Falco	11	03 Feb 2021 2:23 p.m. PST
Peter Cushing - Wargamer	8	29 Jan 2021 12:23 p.m. PST
What makes Miniature Wargaming so Much fun?	20	31 Dec 2020 9:35 p.m. PST
Health issues by tin figures or acrylic paint?	22	18 Dec 2020 12:23 p.m. PST
Reinvigorating Wargaming - Time to Establish "Fight Club"	6	01 Dec 2020 4:34 p.m. PST
Wargaming from home	1	23 Nov 2020 11:49 a.m. PST
Wargaming Dying Out?	20	22 Nov 2020 1:48 p.m. PST
What's your WORST experience with a horrible opponent?	10	19 Nov 2020 4:43 p.m. PST
About Miniature wargaming	1	18 Nov 2020 8:37 p.m. PST
What makes Miniature Wargaming so Much fun?	9	15 Nov 2020 4:47 p.m. PST
A Question For All Tabletop Players: Why Do You Wargame?	18	29 Oct 2020 6:59 p.m. PST
Beginnings of fantasy - Minifigs ME Goblins, Oldhammer	8	04 Oct 2020 10:51 a.m. PST
The First Female Gamers	8	22 Sep 2020 11:49 a.m. PST
Psychology of Miniature Painting	4	20 Sep 2020 2:38 p.m. PST