Recent C&C Medieval thoughts

My thoughts on creating new Medieval stickers for my Command & Colors game may have been solved. 
I ordered this PDF and will be scaling these for use with Command & Colors. 


Now to combine GMT's Medieval Command & Colors with Colombia Games Richard III Campaign system...

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