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Bill Owen
- Jun 9
- 2 min
Go Nuts! with a free 50-page Duckbills issue
Fifty-page issue of Duckbills, the free newsletter, is ready to download now! Features new scenarios from Mike Reese, Q&A's, Bow MGs,...
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Bill Owen
- Feb 10
- 2 min
Brew Up Comparison
The following table describes the difference between the two editions. Compare the difficulty of finding Vehicle Data in listings where...
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Bill Owen
- Jan 7
- 2 min
Brew Up published!
The featured image shows the back & front cover. Thank you to Matt White, who produced both images and has an Etsy store so you can...
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Bill Owen
- Nov 12, 2023
- 3 min
Brew Up's Halftracks are detected
Brew Up is nearing its final draft with a final cover, as shown above. UPDATE: Brew Up is published as of December 2023; buy a copy here...
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Bill Owen
- Sep 27, 2023
- 2 min
Narrative Suspense
A thoughtful blogger, Thomas Brandstetter, writes about his effort to design an ACW naval game & mentions the benefits of Tractics’...
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Bill Owen
- Jul 31, 2023
- 1 min
Brew Up
Stay tuned for our third set of World War II rules: Brew Up. We are working on them now and hope to have them published before the end of...
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Bill Owen
- Jul 26, 2023
- 2 min
Buying 3D Miniatures
As part of my gamer Getting Started section, I have been collecting options of companies that 3D print miniatures and posting about them...
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Bill Owen
- Jun 13, 2023
- 4 min
More than just the armies
Often the first thing that a gamer does is buy some miniature figures. I suggest thinking about a few other things first. The ruleset is...
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Bill Owen
- Jun 13, 2023
- 3 min
What are combat rules?
CombatRules.com publishes game instructions, a ruleset for playing wargames. It’s not about how to have real combat with real people! And...
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Bill Owen
- Jun 13, 2023
- 3 min
Starter Army
Gamers often buy figures and vehicles and then wonder what ruleset to use with them. This could get the cart before the horse since the...
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Bill Owen
- Jun 9, 2023
- 2 min
Terrain: Easiest & Best
My not-so-humble opinion is that the linked blog post describes the easiest & best way to make wargame terrain. Wargame terrain is a...
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Bill Owen
- May 23, 2023
- 3 min
Working on a new ruleset
I am working on getting a new ruleset ready to publish. I won't say now which one but ask you what do you want to see? If it's different...
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Bill Owen
- Apr 15, 2023
- 1 min
Duckbills' Tractics Extenders
We chose the name Duckbills because that's what GIs nicknamed tank track extensions in World War II. So, the free newsletter contains...
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Bill Owen
- Aug 10, 2022
- 6 min
More About Tractics
Tractics gamers are supported by a free newsletter called Duckbills that helps fans try out new ideas like Team Fire. Team Fire allows...
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Bill Owen
- Mar 6, 2022
- 3 min
Why Tractics now?
Most of the buyers of one of the nearly identical print versions of Tractics came from the Facebook fan group for Tractics. Most were...
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Bill Owen
- Feb 4, 2022
- 1 min
Duckbills: Tractics variants & errata
Mike and I will produce an irregular newsletter for Tractics that you can download for free. Click here for its webpage (that included...
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Bill Owen
- Feb 4, 2022
- 1 min
Tractics Features
Because there are 8 different versions of the second edition of Tractics, I added a webpage that explains the features. Since the...
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Bill Owen
- Feb 2, 2022
- 2 min
"E Gary Gygax would be proud"
Another guest post after receiving the new edition. This one is from Terry Terry: "Tractics Review The updated edition of Tractics has...
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Bill Owen
- Jan 25, 2022
- 2 min
Panzermaster
Here I pass on what one of the Quick Reaction Force let me know, Pete Mousseaux. The QRF were volunteers who agreed to receive initial...
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