Stalingrad Build Update
Well, waiting for the PVA wash took longer than I had hoped. It took two days to dry in the workshop, but at last we were at the point where we could prepare it for painting. I sprayed it black...
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Stalingrad: Relighting My Fire
Well, it’s bee a bit of time since I posted about my wargaming journey towards Stalingrad, largely because I’ve just been so busy with other stuff. Anyway, I have continued picking up a few bits and pieces but I have...
Way Down South in the Land of Cotton…
Plantations are odd things and certainly not very trendy in todays PC world, however, for a wargamer who enjoys the AWI and the ACW there can be no doubt that having a few relevant buildings to represent the agricultural heart...
Pimp Your Hedge
Since the Sharp Practice and Chain of Command videos have been running on Beasts of War we have had dozens of people asking where they can get hold of the hedge sections that we use for our games. The simple...
2017 Christmas Special Arrives
Christmas wouldn’t be Christmas without a large helping of Lard and this Christmas Special delivers it by the chimney-full. At 135 pages in length, here’s a look at the contents Lion de Mer: A French force invades Sussex in 1805. ...
The September War, Part Two Arrives
The German invasion of Poland on 1st September 1939 precipitated the greatest conflict the world has ever known, ending the lives of some 60 million people across the globe. This scenario supplement, written by Robert Avery and Alexander Kawczynski, The...
TooFatLardies Festive Oddcast
Christmas comes but once a year and this year the Lardies Christmas Oddcast comes from a very special location as the Lardy team meet in front of a live audience to discuss a bulging sack of letters we have had...
Chain of Command Errata & FAQ
Since Chain of Command was released we have been monitoring the questions being asked and also looking for areas where the rules could be improved, either by clarification or by addition. The net result has been the Chain of Command...
TooFatLardies Oddcast, Episode Two
The terrible trio took the advantage of a long drive to Crisis in Antwerp to discuss their hopes for the show and, the big issue of the show, their experiences walking battlefields and how that relates to their wargaming. We...
What a Load of Cobbles
Yesterday I painted up some civilians for my 1940 Dunkirk project; whilst I feel that we need to be careful about how we represent civvies in wargames, I do feel that in some situations it is not only acceptable to...
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