Too Fat Lardies

Seret wrote: ↑

Wed Dec 11, 2019 10:20 am

There are no rules in the book for main gun smoke or WP. If you want to include it in your games you'll need to cook something up yourself.

I see what you did there.......

Odd that nobody wanted to be the French; ok the quasi-WW1 light tanks are a bit crappy, as is the Vickers VI(a-z), but the Char B1 Bis and the Somua are Panzer-knackerers of the highest order.

.....it's on to painting some smelly britons in various stages of undress. I realise that nudity was nowhere near as much of a shock to the system as it became when we became more "civilized", but we rarely seem to factor in smell/scent into our games (I can only think of horses getting a whiff of ...

I'm looking at a Sikh platoon for this campaign, with British/Indian/Australian supports (eg 2-pdr from 80 A/T Regt, RA; Indian Carrier from a Divisional Recce unit) and am also eagerly awaiting the Far East book. As I understand it, platoon structures - at least at the very outset - were standard, ...

Thanks, Len.

Have you considered having them built for you by Adrian's Walls? I've been chatting to him recently, with regard to having the Sarissa buildings, and a couple of others (similar to the ones Lardy Rich does in his tutorials). They aren't cheap, but you can amass them over time, and they will also be ...

Sorry to revisit the wheel, but what personal weapons did the GD squad carry - specifically the three two-man crews (obviously the other six plus the Gocho had rifles)? Did they all have rifles, too, or were they "excused boots" on account of having a mortar and ammo to lug around? Also, did Japanes...

If you're referring to William III, he was invited in by the Government (no doubt with a note saying "don't worry about that awkward tax demand, our lawyers will deal with that").

Given the relative heights of men and women in my family, that would be more a crotch problem than a head problem.

That's the real reason the UK hasn't been invaded since 1066. The Normans set up what eventually became the Inland Revenue, and any foreign soldiers arriving from abroad (regardless of size) have been threatened with crippling surcharges.