Too Fat Lardies

I agree with Seret. You can choose to place an obstacle (mine/wire) deep in the enemy zone, but for what gain? From a storyteller's standpoint (which I like to believe infuses the Island) I treat such placements as things the opposing force has discovered in the patrol phase and subsequently dismiss...

https://i575.photobucket.com/albums/ss191/brawlfactory/miscellaneous/flight%20stand_zps40twkv7j.jpg The base is a plumber's nut (1.25") which has a recess in the bottom that nicely fits the base of an elevator bolt onto which is threaded a tee nut into which an antenna is pressed - can you guess I s...

DIY I use a ring magnet (on model) and a ball bearing (on stand) that works well enough on 1/600 stuff...dunno how it would hold up with bigger (I assume metal?) models, though. https://i575.photobucket.com/albums/ss191/brawlfactory/WW2%20Aircombat/ring%20magnet%20and%20ball-bearing%20mounting%20sys...

As to the effect on the game, this seems to me to be reflected in the granular application of hits/kills by team. Now we're looking at applying effects to individual team members. This isn't necessarily a bad thing, but all players must (imo) agree before the game to the conditions I ran a game wher...

"...he has to move what is rolled and move the whole 5" " Just to be clear: The player has the option of declaring the final position to be a specific terrain feature - in this case, the hedge - so that the troops would not be forced to cross it into the field beyond just because a '5' was rolled wh...

No surprise: It all comes down to the players agreeing on the impact of the terrain, which is at the core of the Lardies mindset.

1. I house-ruled the use of a Stug by having the vehicle pay 1" per 15-deg of turn. Admittedly fiddly, and slowing things a bit (along with requiring a protractor, but us old model builders have plenty of unused tools lying about...) but in the case of the Stug (where facing is critical) it was a we...

Vague subject, so apologies.

What I'm interested in discussing is what is being modelled on our tabletops.

Is it the action or the pieces/parts?

Figures?...
Equipment?...
Terrain?...

...or is it the action?

Do you game what happens, or what it looks like?

In a CoC campaign casualty figs were placed (after calculating KIA v wounded) for the first-time-in-combat Americans for the second and third time they tried to take the table from the Germans. When the fresh platoon(s) came upon the bodies in the field or along the hedge of those that had gone befo...