Watchers of Twitter may have noticed that, as part of our ongoing Metz 1944 campaign, my US platoon attempted to assault Fort St Blaise last week, but to no avail. We were repulsed with some nasty casualties despite getting to...
Well, busy time on Lard Island and, with progress towards Stalingrad underway, I find myself waiting for some toys in the post for that venture, so now I thought I’d take the opportunity to have a quick dabble with another...
As readers of Lard Island News will know, there is nothing I like more than a game with narrative; apart, that is, from a game with really good tactics AND narrative. A good story can often be heroic, sometimes amusing,...
There are some dates or events in the wargames calendar which mark special or memorable day; Crisis in Antwerp is always the first date on the wall planner in the Lard Island Office, the Lardy Games days across the UK...
As part of the on-going Stalingrad build project, I am still very much on the road East. The plan is to have a campaign covering the drive Eastwards rom Kharkov through numerous small villages and farms. Much of my current...
Fear not loyal readers of Lard Island News, my recent silence has not meant that I have been caught by the NKVD and put up against a wall, but that I have been hugely busy with the Stalingrad project as...
I have to admit that after posting Part Three yesterday, I was not feeling that confident about my roofing ideas. So, as soon as the glue had dried on the roofs, I slapped on some of my standard base coat,...
The road to Stalingrad is, they say, paved with good intentions and having intended this series of articles to be about building Stalingrad terrain, I have singularly failed to produce any such thing. Until now. A while back, I purchased...
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Stop all the clocks, cut off the telephone, Prevent the dog from barking with a juicy bone, Silence the pianos and with muffled drum Because the Summer Special has arrived! So, allegedly, said W.H. Auden when we released the contents...
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