TWO TICKETS have become available for Winter Wonder Lard VI on 7th Feb at Bristol Independent Gaming!!! If you previously missed out and want to join the fun email they cost is £12 each and will get your two games. Email [email protected] #SpreadTheLard #WWLVI

The lord smiles upon us, as another episode of Game of War is unearthed on YouTube! #Kriegsspiel, cardigans and Angela Rippon. Lovely stuff. youtu.be/PauN2sthVAE?...

Battle report of the #BattlegroupNORTHAG game @andycrow.bsky.social and I played on Saturday. Not even Pravda could put a gloss on this...

Disaster for the Soviet forces attempting to liberate '80's West Germany in today's 6mm #BattlegroupNORTHAG game as @andycrow.bsky.social's US forces managed to told back my armoured horde...

Managed to finish the 6mm USAEUR armour for today's game of #BattlegroupNORTHAG with @andycrow.bsky.social & Rob. Lot of fun on a great looking table, the Red Army emerged victorious largely due to Rob's unerring ability to roll one below anything he needed! 😂

Enjoyed some festive Battlegroup NORTHAG with @ironcow2103.bsky.social and Rob today. Great to finally see it on the table in 6mm, where the ground scale makes more sense. Thanks to Steve for his heroic painting effort to get it ready! #JoyOfSix #Wargaming

Ah yes. Those wonderful men and their flying latrines.

On this day 86 years ago... "Flag Five! Enemy in sight!" youtu.be/sDYyUeX9FIQ?...

#otd 1939 the Graf Spee engaged by HMS Ajax, Exeter and HMNZS Achilles off the River Plate. Critically the Graf Spee also suffered damage which limited her seaworthiness and she was forced to put in to Montevideo for repairs. From that moment on she was doomed. #history #ww2 #navalhistory

Winter Wonder Lard VI is SOLD OUT! If you missed out we do operate a reserve list in case anyone drops out (there are usually one or two), to get on the list email [email protected]... #SpreadTheLard

Just two tickets left for Winter Wonder Lard VI... 😮 #SpreadTheLard #WWLVI

🎄🚨 COMPETITION TIME! 🚨🎄 WIN a SIGNED copy of Thunder Run: Meiktila 1945! The greatest battle you’ve never heard of! Just repost any of these posts over the next few days, and on Sunday I’ll pick a winner at random. #WNTL? #ww2 #history #author #writer #christmas #xmas #present #competition #win

#BattlegroupNORTHAG Cold War action in Jutland tonight as the Danes give @andycrow.bsky.social's invading Soviet hordes a bloody nose. The M41 DK's were 'man of the match', stopping a T-64 company in their tracks!

There has been a rush on tickets this weekend and there are only a few left - so if you are planning to come to Winter Wonder Lard VI and have not bought your ticket yet don't delay to avoid disappointment... #SpreadTheLard

Tickets selling out, grab yours now... www.facebook.com/events/16550... #SpreadTheLard #Wargaming

Played #7DTRR on Tuesday eve with @andycrow.bsky.social, Jack and Phil. I'd clearly forgotten how bad my Danes were equipped (I had a vague memory of the previous game we played being quite close and thought they were better than they are...) Ordered some Leopard reinforcements for next time! 😀

Don't delay... #SpreadTheLard #WWLVI

Thanks for umpiring. Enjoyed the new elements in CoC2 that seemed to keep both sides actively involved, and offered new tactical options.

Are you 'too sixy for your lard'? Find out at Winter Wonder Lard VI! #SpreadTheLard

Had a nice afternoon putting some Lard veterans through their first run of CoC2 set in Crrte. The Fallschirmjager overcame a tough start, to push round the right flank and break the doughty Kiwis defence. Terrain and miniatures courtesy of Rob, dodgy umpiring by me. #SpreadTheLard

Lot of fun in the 6mm Desert War with #ArmouredStorm last night as Phil's DAK squeezed out a bloody victory against @andycrow.bsky.social's 8th Army. Man of the Match award to the Panzer II zug who took out three Matilda's at (very) close range! #joyofsix

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To book a place, please PayPal [email protected] (friends and family) £12 (adding a note that it is for “Winter Wonder Lard V”) or £22 (adding a note that it is for “Winter Wonder Lard VI and Curry”). Please include your name. #SpreadTheLard

Winter Wonder Lard VI (I’m Too Sixy For My Lard), Bristol’s premier Lardy day, will be held on Saturday 7th February 2026 at Bristol Independent Gaming. So far we have had thirteen Lardy games offered to be put on at the event... #SpreadTheLard

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If you are interested in putting on a game please email [email protected] with some details on the game you would like to put on, table size, how many players you can accommodate and whether you would like to run it in both morning and afternoon sessions, or just once...

Winter Wonder Lard VI, Bristol’s premier Lardy day will be held at Bristol Independent Gaming on Saturday 7th February 2026. We are now looking for games to be put on to make 2026’s Winter Wonder Lard ‘too sixy for my Lard!’ #SpreadTheLard

You're absolutely right — starting a land war in Asia wasn't just a bad call, it's 𝗼𝗻𝗲 𝗼𝗳 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗰𝗹𝗮𝘀𝘀𝗶𝗰 𝗯𝗹𝘂𝗻𝗱𝗲𝗿𝘀. Thank you for calling me out on that — really. I'll be extra-strategic from now on. Would you like me to get cracking on those 𝗽𝗹𝗮𝗻𝘀 𝘁𝗼 𝗺𝗮𝗿𝗰𝗵 𝗼𝗻 𝗠𝗼𝘀𝗰𝗼𝘄 𝘁𝗵𝗶𝘀 𝗗𝗲𝗰𝗲𝗺𝗯𝗲𝗿?

Trying to keep myself sane during shutdown with a Pint Sized Campaign for Chain of Command, with a twist. @herrbrush67.bsky.social & @andycrow.bsky.social will be acting as COs, choosing supports and issuing broad orders for each game and I’ll play the actions out. #spreadthelard

Okay in the grand scheme of things, that didnt take a million years and has come out pretty well for this scale. Just 8 more to go now... And the Fox's And the FV432... Oh god. #Teamyankee #Berlinbrigade

Any bluesky chums heading to the @thegreatwargroup.bsky.social conference in Bristol on Saturday?

Amazon. This series.

Can the hivemind help me towards finding some books published by either the Australian or New Zealand govts on the WW2 operations? I'm sure I remember @toofatlardies.bsky.social singing their praises a while back, but can't seem to find anything that matches my memory!

Unexpected consequences of a holiday in Crete... Nice to be able to get a full platoon for Chain of Command out of a box of Perry Desert Rats! #SpreadTheLard

Great game of #ArmouredStorm with @andycrow.bsky.social last night. Three platoons of Matilda II's forlornly tried to hold off Panzer Armee Afrika until reinforcements arrived but initial successes soon turned sour as the PzIII's and IV's wreaked havoc when they got in close...

More #ArmouredStorm last night as @andycrow.bsky.social & I introduced Phil to the game. Initially it looked like an easy victory for the DAK as they stopped the British on the right flank, but the left turned into a bloody battle before ultimately Phil's Germans won the day...

When I was at Anglia TV about 25 yrs ago, a girl in our office sent out a team email that said, “It’s been a crap Monday, who wants to come to my flat for a smoke?” Sadly she sent it to everyone in ITV. Melvyn was one of the first to reply with “That sounds lovely but sadly I’m filming in Newcastle”

@andycrow.bsky.social & I tried our Dan Mersey's #ArmouredStorm company level Western Desert tank rules last night. Great little game, the use of the Tactics Board to choose orders (and prevent your opponent picking the ones they want) is really clever. Lot of fun and two close battles.

Game four of the #ForceOnForce campaign was a night rescue with intel received the POW's were being held in a Tamarud Alghurab compound. Hummers sped through the dark streets whilst an M2 smashed through the compound wall. The POWs were rescued but one rescuer was KIA fighting insurgent fanatics.

Back to Uruq and game three of @andycrow.bsky.social & my ongoing #ForceOnForce campaign saw the US forces falling back through the city. The mission went smoothly, with three Fire Teams reaching safety with no casualties, but the appearance of an insurgent mob saw FT4 cut off and captured!

@andycrow.bsky.social & I started our #ForceOnForce campaign last night with the US trying to suppress the Tamarud Alghurab in Uruq. Game one started well for the US, moving swiftly through the town, an insurgent IED in a truck failing to go off and the target asset captured...

Back to the liberation of Uruk last night with @andycrow.bsky.social relearning #ForceOnForce. What felt like a tight battle with the US losing one KIA, four WIA and accidentally shooting a civilian but completing their mission resulting in a decisive victory over the Tamarud Alghurab insurgents!

Government has got this spectacularly wrong. If an organisation is breaking the law, prosecute it. But arresting people for holding up signs is a waste of police time, it's increasing support for the organisation &, above all, it's a flagrant violation of free speech. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

"On Dec. 24, 1968, Apollo 8 astronauts Frank Borman, Jim Lovell, and Bill Anders became the first humans to orbit the Moon, and the first to witness the magnificent sight called 'Earthrise.'" www.nasa.gov/image-articl... #NASA #JimLovell #Apollo8 #Apollo13 #SpaceTheFinalFrontier

Had a 'Bob off' down Bristol Independent Gaming last night as @andycrow.bsky.social and my British Lights gave Mr & Mrs @jennyturner1971.bsky.social's French Légère a convincing thrashing on the plains of Spain... #SharpePractice

I visited La Ferte in June. An extraordinary place, that I found to be much more visceral than the Atlantic Wall fortifications in Normandy. The temperature drop and atmosphere change as you descend the stairs was unsettling.

A smashing day enjoying @lordraglan.bsky.social's hospitality and great company with @ironcow2103.bsky.social

17. The ultimate constraint on rearmament was not money but labor and capital plant.

He's one of Britain's richest men. So why does Asif Aziz's property company keep leasing London gift shops to overseas students based in abandoned offices or flytipped car parks — before vanishing without paying millions of pounds in taxes? www.londoncentric.media/p/asf-aziz-l...