Lard Magazine The Magistrates Daughter
The scenario looks like a good one, but I have a few questions.
British player two¡¯s force is commanded by Captain Cornwall but no status is given for him. What should that be?
The objectives for
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Mark Bretherton
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#200589
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An Infamous New Year
A Happy New Year to all Lardites and Lardophiles. Infamy on all Luddits and Lardophobes.
I ended 2020 by clearing the French and Spanish TYW from the table. The French "Queen's Light Horse" having
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Stephen Caddy
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Re: Review of 2020 Games
Stephen, I¡¯ve only played a single game but based on that I took an immediate liking to it. It has Lardy DNA that would make it familiar to anyone who¡¯s played IABSM or Sharp Practice. It is a
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Mark Bretherton
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Re: Review of 2020 Games
Sounds like a great game, Stephen. Some friends of mine have taken a shine to The Pikeman's Lament and are planning some skirmishes using those rules.
Byron
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BYRON CHAMPLIN
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Re: Review of 2020 Games
Thanks, Byron, for the link which I've followed up. It was a new one to me.
I'm now fighting a TYW battle which could have seen the Three Musketeers in action. The Spanish are tasked to withdraw from
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Stephen Caddy
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Re: Review of 2020 Games
Stephen, if you don't already visit Mark's blog, "The Tactical Painter," I highly recommend it. He just posted an item about his Mud and the Blood WWI project. The blog also contains riveting reports
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BYRON CHAMPLIN
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Re: Review of 2020 Games
Infamy Infamy - yes for my part that has suffered from the lockdown. I
ordered a lot of Germans and Auxilia (incl cavalry) from Victrix, as I
wanted to build an Auxilia force. I managed to assemble
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Penguin Koen
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Re: Review of 2020 Games
It's been interesting reading all the responses to this thread. Thanks for writing.
Mark, I'd be interested to hear more of your experience of Through the Mud and the Blood as it's a ruleset I've
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Stephen Caddy
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Re: Review of 2020 Games
We were lucky in Sydney with a full lockdown only in March and April. By May we were back to face to face gaming with only a few restrictions. So, in an otherwise?bad year I had a good year's gaming,
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Mark Bretherton
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Re: Review of 2020 Games
No games for me since March 2020. I was lucky to have a game of FIW SP not long before the UK lockdown started. I have been really busy on other wargaming stuff though and re-wired my lighting for a
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[email protected] <mick.scales@...>
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Re: Review of 2020 Games
We played some games early in the year, mostly board games though
(Zombicide, Cthulu, then tested Tail Feathers and Aftermath). Then came the
pandemic and very little games after that, apart from some
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Penguin Koen
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Re: Review of 2020 Games
Hi
I haven't managed much this year, just:
one Snappy Nappy
Two Chain of Command
Cheers
Klaus
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Klaus-Dieter Fritsch
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Re: Review of 2020 Games
There was life before COVID, but I hardly recall it. Since F2F gaming became a die roll (see what I did there?), I've only played Chain of Command via Zoom. About a dozen games.
Byron
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BYRON CHAMPLIN
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Re: Review of 2020 Games
No wargames for me (which is unfortunately a normal state of affairs) but I
plugged away and got most of a second army done for Japanese Dux.
I did start playing the Lord of the Rings card game which
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Richard Danziger
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Re: Review of 2020 Games
Congrats to anyone who got any gaming in this year.I managed about half a dozen texting games.At least my painting projects saw progress.MarkSent from my T-Mobile 4G LTE Device
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Mark Luther
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Re: Review of 2020 Games
You've been busy Stephen! Normally I play every week, but 2020 has seen a grand total of 9 games, and of those only two since March!
Both those COVID-era games were Gaslands played at home with my
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[email protected]
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#200574
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Re: Review of 2020 Games
A few What a tankers with girlspawn and Point of View Tanker by t'internet.? A Kriegspiel. A few CoCs (mostly self abuse!)
Tom
On Mon, 28 Dec 2020 at 12:28, Doug Melville<dougmelville@...>
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Tom McKinnell
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Re: Review of 2020 Games
Actual games played, not a lot. I think I got in 3 FtF games of CoC, then the only gaming was at Virtual Lard. So two of Infamy another couple of CoC, 1 SP and 1 Dux.
Not a great haul for the year,
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Doug Melville
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Review of 2020 Games
In 2020 I played 44 wargames of these
27 were TFL games
8 were my own rules [3 sets]
&9 were other commercial sets [6 different sets of which only one was played more than once]
Of the TFL games I
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Stephen Caddy
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#200571
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Re: Watch out for Weedy Coves
Thanks Stephen - best wishes to you also.
40 games is most impressive! I'll keep track of my solo efforts and post how some of the games go.
Mick
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[email protected] <mick.scales@...>
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