 Skirmisher Publishing LLC was incorporated in early 2005, but before then had simply been "doing business as" Skirmisher Publishing since mid-2001.According to information posted on the company website, however, its origins are much older, and date immediately to a miniature wargaming development group founded by Varhola and Weber in the mid-1990s and ultimately to the gaming circle based in Munich, Germany, in the early 1980s that included Varhola, McLaughlin and friends Paul Knorr and George Sieretski.The latter helped to develop the "skirmish wargaming" rules from which the company derived its name.