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  • Just Add Water
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    6 hours ago
  • wargaming in 28 mm and sometimes smaller
    The Citadel: The Breakthrough- Breaking Through (Game 2) - We played the second game in the Citadel: Breakthrough a couple of weeks ago at the Abyss. Graham (the Soviets) forced me to withdraw from table 1 wit...
    1 day ago
  • JJ's Wargames
    The Battle of Tapae, 101 AD, using Three Ages of Rome - Preparation and Planning. - Next month I am planning to give the Roman-Dacians a run out and to entertain my two lads, Tom and Will, and their friends, some new to historical war...
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  • NEWS FROM THE FRONT
    A Drop Too Far? - This week saw a further outing with the recent No Easy Ground rules. The scenario I devised would see British paratroopers dropped behind German lines to n...
    1 day ago
  • Zinnkameraden
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    2 days ago
  • Tarleton's Quarter
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    2 days ago
  • Over Open Sights
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    4 months ago
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    11 months ago
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    1 year ago
  • Dalauppror
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  • Roundwood's World
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    1 year ago
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    2 years ago
  • The Wargames Table
    Logs - Another quick post. Good chum Colin gifted these lovely resin pieces to me (thanks mate!). These were beautifully cast and very straightforward to paint us...
    3 years ago
  • much ado about nothing
    AWI: current state of affairs - As I've just recently stepped over the 50% mark on my AWI project for Sharp Practice, a couple of roll-call pics are appropriate.
    3 years ago
  • A Grab Bag of Games
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