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The son and heir came over on Sunday and we had another practice game of Infamy Infamy . Rather than setting up the Iron Hand of Mars terrain with its enormous number of trees, I decided we'd have another go at a scenario based on the Numidian Civil War of 118 BCE. I played Adherbal, one of the rival Numidian kings. I had one unit of spearmen (Warriors in Infamy Infamy terms) and a few skirmishers…
I have The Iron Hand of Mars , my scenario for Ebor Lard written (in two versions pending playtesting next weekend) so I'm working on improving the appearance of the game. Lardy Days always feature some fantastic terrain and I don't want to be left too far behind. The entire table represents a portion of the dense German forest. There's no chance I could put down enough trees to represent that…
The "learn Infamy Infamy in short order so I can run it at Ebor Lard" plan continues to make progress. On Saturday Jamie and Phil came over and we played a scenario I'd designed specifically as a learning exercise. The idea for The Summer of 69 came from an episode from a podcast called The History of Cologne . Episode 7 on the Batavian Revolt depicted a time when the city (then called Colonia…
With Ebor Lard coming up in little over a month, I'm well into a programme of preparation for my Infamy Infamy game The Iron Hand of Mars . The scenario is written, I have sufficient terrain (though more is in development), and I have 75% of the figures painted and based. The plan now demands that I properly master the Infamy Infamy rules (I've previously only played in other people's games) and…
The question of how artillery works in TacWWII came up on the Facebook group but I decided the best way to answer it was to give a detailed description here. Let's start with the simplest case; artillery units firing at targets in their line of sight. This is what gunners call "firing over open sights". This takes place in the Direct Fire Phase, not in the Artillery Phase. A German sIG33 battery…
The Baroness and I are back from a road trip around points north. We didn't see much in the way of wargames-related sights (though Dumbarton Castle was fascinating) but we did visit our share of markets and second hand bookshops. The starting point to our shopping expedition was Tynemouth Metro Station, which hosts a market every weekend. There I found... It's bound to be used in a game of Arc of…
In a moment of madness I offered to run at Ebor Lard (first weekend of September) the Infamy Infamy game I'd originally intended to have ready for Steel Lard (in November). One Roman force - I need two! While the basic game design is fairly well laid-out in my head, I still have to complete at least two items of terrain and at least three units of Romans. I also have to properly learn the rules…
I spent Saturday at a second gaming event/sauna in seven days. West Mid-Lards is a new Lardy Day organised by John Cooper (aka Maraviglia on BlueSky) in Bedworth, Warwickshire. The venue was a town-centre games shop called Venator Tabletop Gaming . They seem to specialise in Games Workshop and collectible card gaming so, as a historical gamer, there was nothing for me to buy except for the several…
As Sheffield just began to get over the hump of the recent hot weather, a few hundred wargamers descended upon the multi-room sauna that is Sheffield Hallam University for the annual Joy of Six event. Despite the thermal discomfort it was a really enjoyable day and I was delighted to meet new people and introduce them to the TacWWII rules. As regulars here will know, this year the Cold War…
I've tweaked the Calais game mat with the addition of green edges to the roads and completed a few more village modules as well as creating some signs to identify the villages to onlookers. I haven't used the "fill in mix" I created recently at this stage as I want to keep it available for use on the day. I'm increasingly more satisfied with how this is going to look but I've every confidence that…
