A *thoroughly* excellent day of toy soldiering. Only a few pics because of how close the game was. @leeparnell.bsky.social played the new CONTACT! mission for TY with the Berlin Brigade. A tense knife fight and showing the quality of Rapiers at last! #wargaming #teamyankee

Either Hell March from Red Alert, or Zero Signal from Carmageddon!

With the release of the new BP44 armoured train rules from Battlefront, Nathan and I thought we would give them a whirl! Suffice to say, a magnificent, completely ridiculous thing. Its rules are a bit squiffy, but honestly, against a willing opponent bringing a themed army, they are great! #trains

All complete! Final troop of the Hussars for the Berlin Brigade! These are battle scarred veterans, with lots of battle damage on them. #wargaming #teamyankee #berlin

New troop for the Berlin Brigade Hussars. This troop are representing having been in combat for a couple of weeks, so they have Bazooka skirts ripped off, battle damage and bed rolls. Two more to go with blue chemical bins on the back. #wargaming #teamyankee

So with all these wrestlers retiring with the classic Boots Off in the ring motif, one assumes when @speedballbailey.bsky.social retires (in a long long while one should hope), will Mike actually put boots ON in the ring? #wrestling

This thread is absolutely balls to the wall awesome wartime artwork. Fuck dictators. Fuck fascism.

Kiddo's group (all around 10yo) enters their third session. Less chaos, they are now just getting knee deep into the story. Huge cheers and grins all round, and the greatest accolade a GM could ever get. 'This is the best movie i've ever seen. And i'm in it!' #pathfinder #TTRPG

We must have played over 20 Games this weekend at No Mans Land with the public, telling them about Day one of the Somme offensive from 53rd Brigades perspective. Some superb feedback as well. Everyone understanding the need for tempo and clever use of reserves. #wargaming #Kriegspiel

At a loose end this weekend coming and can’t make it to Salute? Head to Bodrhyddan Hall in Rhyl! We’ll be running the Kriegspiel for 53rd brigade on Day one of the Somme. A simple block and counter game played on a blown up period map! *blows whistle*

For those who celebrate. Happy Good Friday.

On Her Majesties Occult Service. Warrant cards printed for @cubicle7games.bsky.social Laundry Files rpg. Yes Sam Wytchlockes warrant numbers have Cuneiform in them. Obviously. #ttrpg

55 grand a year for an AI elementary school. Now, think what you like about private education, but there’s an old phrase about ‘a fool and his money will be easily separated’. Also, this is a total grift and will be closed in its first term I wager.

Last Tuesday, my regular group completed, finally, the legendary ‘Enemy Within’ campaign for WHFRP4E. A vast multi arc sprawling campaign across the empire rooting out the heart of corruption. It’s immense, storied and complex in a lot of ways. But my god, what a story to finish. 1/ #whfrp

Kira, Nate and my kiddo locked horns in some MESBG this evening. 340pt quick games to keep it rattling along! FORTH EORLINGAS!

'Commissar Yarrick returns' Yarrick is somehow back in 40k. Kept alive by Ork Magic or by some contrivance or another. Importantly, we continue GW's Parallels to the Attitude Era Wrestling at pace as we have moved on from the Dungeon of Doom (30k). www.youtube.com/watch?v=GEDe... #warhammer

Running a pathfinder game for a group of 10 y/o is brilliant. Worried your 30 years used tropes are tired? No panic. The audience have never seen it and will burst in excitement at an Orc Ambush. Its wildly gratifying to get your kids into TTRPG. Watching them squabble over 20 silver pieces 1/

Though re-enactment simply cannot bring to life the true nature of medieval combat, by jove increasing that experience from 0.001% to 0.1% by dumping 60 enthusiasts into a castle hall made it feel gritty as hell. A fight and a half on our hands (a mix of kit as it was a national training event)

Another cracking battle with @leeparnell.bsky.social this evening. A shakedown in prep for a tournament he’s in so we took it slow and went over some obvious stuff that’s often overlooked. 90pts Breakthrough Team Yankee. Lee with ANZAC me with Soviet motor rifles. Action plays out in the alt text

Finished up six more Rohan infantry. Horsemen and Eomer to do next. These are really handsome to paint! #mesbg

Stuart printed up some quick and easy street terraces for Operation Grapeshot in August. A bunch of these will make the board look densely populated for the big city fight battle! #wargaming #italy

Some snaps from our very handsome Mordheim game this evening using the Empire in Flames supplement!

Nearly. Nearly.

Leading a war party through to the York Minster. We had a hundred fighters when all the groups had mustered with Regia. A smashing time! #yorkvikingfest2026

Stellar battle against dance partner @leeparnell.bsky.social tigers and the Hussars scrape together enough chieftains to make a counter attack against Soviet forces in the northern sector. Action in the comments! #teamyankee

Lee’s early war kit off to a flying start!

Drop some hats! Bersaglieri Moretto Vaira.

Absolutely insane run. Smashed it. Super chuffed with this!

Before AI slop, we had mates who had unhinged vision and a passing skill at Photoshop nonsense. This is from 2017. My mate Chris Murphy took a pic of me and Seb in the iconic John Carter pose, then superimposed it onto the Frazetta classic. Ridiculous.

My dads a spark. He once won a competition for how fast he could wire a plug. He did it in like 28 seconds or something bonkers (this was 30+ years ago at least). I just sent this to him. The dull thud I heard was him exploding in rage 200 miles away.

Stop using ChatGPT for dogshit meme art. Seriously

Classic Eowyn on Horse from Games Workshop’s MESBG. Lost her spear hand ages ago so had to remake one from an elf gauntlet. Worked well enough! #wargaming #middleearth

Delicious. Big Brody is excellent.

If it looks like a duck, quacks like a duck, denies it fucks underage ducks, is mentioned 5000 times in secret documents about fucking underage ducks, is best friends with other underage duck fuckers & holds a competition to find the prettiest underage ducks, it's Donald the Duck Fucker. 🐤🦆

A grey day outside, so perfect for a glamour shoot for the Berlin Brigade. Its 100 pts (ish) for Team Yankee. I'll return to the army to do a full infantry company of the Royal Hants later. I cant face that many 432's at the moment :D Been a really cool journey! #teamyankee

Wombat platoon completed! This 432 compressed Berlin Brigade camo is starting to wear on me now so for the moment, at 100pts, the Berlin boys are now totally complete. I’ll return to do an infantry company for them later in the year. Love playing games with these as well! #teamyankee

During the pandemic I scoured high and low for a suitable 28mm Loco. Not a single company did one to the right specs. (I am particular about Locos. Dont question this!) So @mikesouthhobbies.bsky.social sculpted this amazing LMS 8F for me from original plans. 1/

150pts of late war flames of war in northern Italy with myself and @leeparnell.bsky.social against Nathan. Nice wide board looking handsome!

Its not hard, really its incredibly easy to get licensed photos of *literally* the most photographed area of Auschwitz. But no, dogshit fb pages spreading AI slop intend on cheapening history. Awful.

RSPB big garden bird watch. Daisy the buzzard, without fail, always comes to be the star of the show. We love her. #bigbuzzard

Who's that snuffling in the undergrowth? Why its a WOMBAT! Set up for Berlin Brigade. These are super cool little models from Battlefront. #Berlinbrigade #Teamyankee

Holy shit Gary Larsons prophecy came true!

Regularly wheel this photo out to be a scamp when modern internet dwellers who spend too long on Gun Forums talk about safety and trigger discipline. :D

Is it snobbish of me to be really proud of my TTRPG groups immense ‘lore’ databanks on paper, either hand written or in print, and now with one of those world forge pages for another universe we have? Probably. Is it better than gpt? A QUADRILLION TIMES YES.

Seriously, get Grahams UK tank marking mugs. I asked him to do an 18th division one from the Great War and the absolute champion did it. I have two and proudly drink from them at many opportunities. Proper lovely stuff!

Incredible photo of Italian Partisans in the snow. Always important to remember the depth of experience some of the veteran partisans had and how effective that can be in this scale of combat.

Crikey. The fantasy universe we wrote that now has its own map, world building and hundreds of characters, NPCs, pieces of art, stories etc is now 13 years old. We are very blessed to have a group that meets for TTRPG every Tuesday (almost without fail) in person. And this has been a great world.

Not D and D. Shadowrun. Tex, he was a shapeshifter cowboy gunslinger with a whip that could turn into a cobra and a flying car. First D and D character was Ragnar Orchewer. Human fighter. I’ve played human fighters in systems pretty much solidly since.

Timeline cleanse? Why not. Early morning opening with Grace, Hetty, Hope and Toffee. The gentle sound of a pekin bantam is soothing to the soul indeed. Absolutely love my little fluffs.

Loooool. Stallard says 'it was just a joke babe!', when he's absolutely on record as saying 'wokeism is the biggest threat to wargaming'. Suffice to say, he really is a chump frankly.