The brutal finale of our second Strength and Honour game at the Lardy day ended up with an outrageous melee of about 40,000 troops packed into an area about 1km squared hacking each other to pieces! With little room to manoeuvre the Carthaginians were pressed in and slaughtered!

Rustled up even more photos taken by others of my game at CAHAGIYTYLE or "Come and have a go if you think you're LARD enough 2026". 20mm scenario, 1940 Biville Normandy. #spreadthelard #wargaming wargamingthings.blogspot.com/2026/01/batt...

IABSM run by the infamous Turner Mob😂. Great table & minis, a tough scenario for the Brits, more Tiger tanks than I have ever seen on a table! We bagged 2 of them, the others made a mess of my platoon! Great Lardy day all round “Come and have a go if you think you're LARD enough” #spreadthelard

Managed to find some photos taken by others of my game at CAHAGIYTYLE or "Come and have a go if you think you're LARD enough 2026". 20mm scenario, 1940 Biville Normandy. #spreadthelard #wargaming

Thanks to everyone who turned up from near and far to support our lard day!

Trasimene at the lard day! #spreadthelard

Let’s do this Southampton! Lard day today!

One sleep to go! See you at the Lard day tomorrow! #spreadthelard

We’ve just had a couple of late cancellations for our lard day near Southampton this Saturday. We had a good reserve list but we’ve cleared out the subs bench. If you fancy coming along let me know. First come first served!

A bit of looted Roman baggage for Lake Trasimene. Considering adding clump foliage style flames burning the cart but a bit unsure?

Pack your bags, bring your reusable coffee cups! Just 6 days until CAHAGIYTYLE!😇

Scratch building a 20mm version of Saint-Paterne in Biville-la-Baignarde. Measured and scaled from aerial photos, designed in SketchUp and construction in 3mm foam board. Modular design for easy storage and option to use each building on it's own. #wargaming #spreadthelard #minatures #terrain

One week to go until Come and have a go if you think you’re LARD enough! Looking forward to seeing you all for loads of great games and a catch up!

Cheeky playtest at the new Diceheads cafe in Gosport. Tons of tables there and very welcoming. Hampshire gamers it’s well worth a look.

There's a new WSS podcast! WSS podcast 107 - A few of our favourite things with @thedarkiscool.bsky.social, @clogfather.bsky.social and @markbackhouse29.bsky.social https://www.karwansaraypublishers.com/blogs/wss-blog/wss-podcast-107-a-few-of-our-favourite-things #wargaming

I don't have Strength and honour... yet. (The game obviously, personally I'm brimming with both). Things to do; Get the book. Talk to my friend with a printer about some more bases.

Uh oh! Trasimene set up!

An Allied Latin legion ready to fight for Rome.

Enjoying the guilty pleasure of binge watching this on YouTube. Really good and it makes me want to paint SOE agents and French resistance fighters.

Only a few weeks now until Come and have a go if you think your Lard enough on the 24th near Southampton. Looking forward to seeing many of you there!

Carthaginian camp finished. Maybe needing a few guards on the palisade?

Just a couple of photos of my 20mm Early War French courtesy of the very talented @markbackhouse29.bsky.social #wargaming #spreadthelard

An excellent blog post. This is looking a really exciting! Will be at Come and have a go if you think you’re LARD enough 2026 next month l.

A nice shout out for Strength and Honour here at 21.30 into the podcast. podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/2...

Free day so I’m returning to trial battles for Strength and Honour during the Crisis of the Third Century. Today I’m looking at the Battle of Emesa between the Romans and the Palmyrenes. Romans at the top and Palmyrenes bottom. #spreadthelard #wargaming #2mm #S&H

The coolest present today! Those in the know know!

Happy Saturnalia legionaries! Normal service will resume shortly!

New! Lard Magazine 8 - 2025 (PDF) has been delivered and is now ready for shipping https://tny.app/3hefv088

Planning your Lardie Games Days calendar for 2026? Consider www.cloglard.nl: TFL Games, food, drink, and conviviality as always, plus a historic location and possibly a clog or two! #spreadthelard #wargaming

Punic infantry with elephant skirmish line in support. Warlord epic Hail Caesar range based for Strength and Honour.

Spanish and Numidian allies.

All my units so far for Trasimene. Just one unit of Romans to complete now. Got the static grass out and finished off the bases with the flock box in a mammoth flocking session! Phew!

I’ve just competed the set-up on Amazon KDP for the paperback of Junction Jeopardy. The cover price will be £8.50, which is as low as I can keep it for the spirit of the ‘Coffee Break’ cost and I’ll be earning less than £2 a copy – so will need to sell fahsens! Should be available from Christmas Eve

A few more Latin legionaries. I’m utilising all the extra triarii bases (you get far too many compared to the hastati, principes and velites!)

Carthage on the offensive!

Some simple Disaster and Setback card holders for a LoTR themed Strength & Honour game at our upcoming Lardy Day. If anyone wants the STL just let me know. #strengthandhonour #2mm #wargaming

UPS! One day earlier, Señor Clarke was in a hurry to have it finished and it is now available for UK readers #spreadthelard toofatlardies.co.uk/product/13324/

The 2025 Lard Special Magazine is expected tomorrow December 11th @toofatlardies.bsky.social #spreadthelard

Opening window seven of the @toofatlardies.bsky.social Advent Calendar 2025. Today @markbackhouse29.bsky.social @wssmagazine.bsky.social on game designing #spreadthelard youtu.be/VSXfR7sgxZo?...

Fourth installment of the @toofatlardies.bsky.social Advent Calendar 2025 with Richard Clarke #spreadthelard toofatlardies.libsyn.com/toofatlardie...

For our club's upcoming Lardy day, I am planning on a refighting of the 53rd Battalion of Chasseurs Alpins (BCA) defence of Biville-la-Baignarde on the 10th June 1940. You can read the historical background to the fight below. #wargaming #battleoffrance1940 #spreadthelard

Trasimene again

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Carthaginian camp coming together nicely.

A few Cromarty Forge tents painted up for Strength and Honour. These will be in the Carthaginian camp!

First part of Lake Trasimene WIP. Static grass and gloss varnish to add.

Nice to get the latest WSS through the door. Another article in there. This time WW2 aerial dogfighting.

Experimenting with LOTR Strength and Honour tonight