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  • What?   -  A day of games from the TooFatLardies stable. Where?  – Musselburgh, just next to Edinburgh, Scotland When?  – June 22nd, 2013. Further information here on this website.0November 28, 2012

    Deep Fried Lard

    What?   -  A day of games from the TooFatLardies stable. Where?  – Musselburgh, just next to Edinburgh, Scotland When?  – June 22nd, 2013. Further information here on this website.

  • This post’s for Anne-Marie and Julia, two friends who between them have transported a large bag of Eurocent coins from Ghent in Belgium, to Istanbul in Turkey and now back...4September 21, 2012

    What’s with all the Eurocents?

    This post’s for Anne-Marie and Julia, two friends who between them have transported a large bag of Eurocent coins from Ghent in Belgium, to Istanbul in Turkey and now back…

  • So I’ve been banned from TMP  for “Harassing FoW gamers”. It’s quite pathetic really, some (not all)  of the FoW fanboys who frequent TMP have incredibly thin skins.  They behave ...11September 1, 2012

    TMP and the Nature of Harassment

    So I’ve been banned from TMP  for “Harassing FoW gamers”. It’s quite pathetic really, some (not all)  of the FoW fanboys who frequent TMP have incredibly thin skins.  They behave …

  • These boxes “do what they say on the tin” and have become very popular among UK wargamers in the past few years.  I have built up quite a collection of...0July 22, 2012

    Really Useful Boxes

    These boxes “do what they say on the tin” and have become very popular among UK wargamers in the past few years.  I have built up quite a collection of…

  • A friend of my wife has inherited these things, which she thinks are something to do with British Army wargames “they came from a strange (and long gone) government, mostly...0May 22, 2012

    What on Earth?

    A friend of my wife has inherited these things, which she thinks are something to do with British Army wargames “they came from a strange (and long gone) government, mostly…

  • The British get surrounded and surrender.  My sad lack of progress allows the Austrians to redeploy and an attempted charge by some Prussian Hussars ends in abject failure. I now...0April 18, 2010

    Battle of Hastenbach (7)

    The British get surrounded and surrender.  My sad lack of progress allows the Austrians to redeploy and an attempted charge by some Prussian Hussars ends in abject failure. I now…

  • I’m now in charge of the Prussian flank attack.  To no effect whatsoever.  How many time can you roll less than seven on 2D6.  In my case eight times out...0April 17, 2010

    Battle of Hastenbach (6)

    I’m now in charge of the Prussian flank attack.  To no effect whatsoever.  How many time can you roll less than seven on 2D6.  In my case eight times out…

  • It all looks very good for the French. There’s another flank to this battle but I really don’t have a clue what’s happening here.0April 17, 2010

    Battle of Hastenbach (5)

    It all looks very good for the French. There’s another flank to this battle but I really don’t have a clue what’s happening here.

  • We’re using an L shaped table.  Here’s the view up one  arm of the L. And up the other arm0April 17, 2010

    Battle of Hastenbach (4)

    We’re using an L shaped table.  Here’s the view up one  arm of the L. And up the other arm

  • It’s all going horribly wrong.  I’ve seen off one cavalry attack and the Prussian Guard managed to fill a hole in my line when a battalion of Grenadiers retreated in...0April 17, 2010

    Battle of Hastenbach (3)

    It’s all going horribly wrong.  I’ve seen off one cavalry attack and the Prussian Guard managed to fill a hole in my line when a battalion of Grenadiers retreated in…

  • That’s my command in the distance, Prussian Grenadiers holding the corner in the Allied line, the British to my left are being attacked by a huge column of Austrians. Here...0April 17, 2010

    Battle of Hastenbach (2)

    That’s my command in the distance, Prussian Grenadiers holding the corner in the Allied line, the British to my left are being attacked by a huge column of Austrians. Here…

  • Thirteeen people, over 2,000 28mm toys anda massive table in the Lundin Links Hotel in Fife. Today we’re refighting the Battle of Hastenbeck using the Black Powder rules. I’ll be...0April 17, 2010

    Battle of Hastenbeck (1)

    Thirteeen people, over 2,000 28mm toys anda massive table in the Lundin Links Hotel in Fife. Today we’re refighting the Battle of Hastenbeck using the Black Powder rules. I’ll be…

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