'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.

Man, Warlord really are a woeful company now. Used to love em, then blood red skies was toilet, BP2e, the boat game all garbage. The Stallard reveals himself to be an absolute weapon, THEN DOUBLES DOWN ON IT. Chump.

First six Rohan infantry complete. I find the modern plastics a little fiddly to paint over the metal heroes but quality wise they are a great improvement over the original plastics. Lots more of these chaps to come. #mesbg

Cemetery Gates by pantera. I love it. But Phil. Bloody hell.

TROLLLLLL Big armoured troll for MESBG. On to Rohan after this! #mesbg

Managed to paint this Morannon Orc command unit yesterday! On to the Mordor troll, then that’s the baddies basically done. (Need a ring wraith as well but that’s an easy job). On to Rohan after this!

Its the 1st of January. Asides from all that real life stuff you have going on, this is a reminder, YOUR CHRISTMAS TOY SOLDIERS WILL NEITHER ASSEMBLE NOR PAIN THEMSELVES. Stand to all painters! We must defeat the unpainted hordes!

Finalmente model for the year (just waiting for the basing compound to finish). FORTH EORLINGAS!

Kiddos first game of Middle Earth Strategy Battle Game yesterday. She loved it and Eowyn chopped through five orcs which was magnificent. Still remains a really elegant little game!

while up in the mountains, we came across a tiny village witha beautiful church. The names on the side just kept marching on. Tiny towns in valleys in Northern Italy were atomised basically. Onori.

Phew, what a hell of a game against old dance partner @leeparnell.bsky.social with the Berlin Brigade taking on his Soviet motor company! I’ll try and compress the action into a thread here, with comments on the alt text! #wargaming #teamyankee

All set for games this evening with @leeparnell.bsky.social Blown out and burnt up t55s. Made these to create a sort of ‘believable cover’ In the bare section of the Berlin Wall, but they are ubiquitous enough we can use em anywhere. #teamyankee #berlinbrigade

We have reached ‘emotional support lettuce’ era here. A magnificent turn of phrase!

Hiked up Eastnor estate with the family and found this chunk of the Berlin Wall. Ate a lot of mince pies. Christmas has been good. May next year bring safety to those who need it.

When I was 7, I was getting into 40k. We used it as a creative outlet and as we got into our teenage years we wrote, like many, our own home brew units that were absurd. Use of the phrase ‘100 times more powerful’ occurred everywhere. We were kids. Not adults. Or presidents.

New shot from Nolan’s BROWNEST ODYSSEY now with added black. The helmet this dude is wearing is basically squidward.